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 Re: batteries-topping up
Author: Mike K 
Date:   06-09-08 12:19

The simple answer is "ignorance". Lacking solid info, they go with "best guess".
Your question about battery water is a good example. It was distilled water, not de-ionized. (Although the results are much the same). But it was double distilled for the batteries.
Potable (fresh) water, for the boat, was distilled, pumped to the fresh water tanks and chlorine added. The battery water had to be absolutely pure. NO contaminants, what-so-ever.
It's a small point. Unless your life depends on those batteries.
Same thing when you fire a torpedo. You're going to loose some weight (boat gets lighter), better pump some water into the trim tanks.
Charge batteries? You use fuel. Since you replace the diesel fuel with water, in the fuel tanks, you get heavier. Pump water out of the trim tanks.
Finding sub sailors to kibitz, when designing a sub simulation, is, usually, neither easy nor cheap.
Sure, you could spend Saturday afternoon at the VFW or American Legion. But for every usable tidbit, you'll spend an hour, or more, listening to "sea stories". They may be fascinating, but they're useless, in programming your game. And if you want one to sit with you, to explain the effect on trim of firing a particular torpedo (each type of torpedo has a different weight), while you write the programming code, it's goin'a cost you.
Be patient, with these game designers. Sure, there are errors. but the only ones who need, absolute accuracy, in simulations, are the Submarine Schools (US UK, France, Germany China, Russia, etc.). But they have governments supporting them, and can afford the millions necessary for research and programming. And lives depend on the accuracy, of their simulations. The games are just for fun.
Although, it would be nice, if, they left blank lines of program text, where you could go in and add sub routines, for the finer points of submarining.
Mike K.

I don't suffer from ulcers, I'm a carrier.
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