Huh. This is an actual fun fact.

Thanks, I knew someone would explain. I only remember a bit of the magic electricity parts

@@devinhorner2358 the words you're looking for are inrush current. TLDR: a lot of motory / capacitor things take a huge amount of current to spin up, but much less to maintain. Can be modeled with simple curves to make things seem a lot more realistic.

In one of the maintenance jobs I learned to do many years ago, the maintenance supervisor described it like this. "Think of the electrons in the wire like water molecules, and the wire like a pipe. If you shove too many molecules into the pipe, it can cause all sorts of issues, likeliest being it bursts the pipe, wires and systems are basically the same." It took me a bit back then to noodle it out, but it's a great analogy, and really makes you think about how things are so similar.

Oh, awesome. I was not familiar with that being a unit so thanks for clueing me in

There was no chicken. *sweat profusely after seeing the black badge that technically wasn't there, on the technically non-existent chicken*

I would love a step like that to be added eventually

That's a good point, I'm not used to thinking of the extreme temperature component. Some valves have built in pressure relief but we don't know what kind of valves these are, or if the pump itself has a some kind of vent. I think I'd still want to shut the outlet and leave the inlet open to avoid accidental pressurization of the line. And of course for any maintenance, 2-valve isolation is required. But of course it's all personal preference here because the game won't penalize you either way

Im not used to extreme temperatures too, im aa engineer on a dredger. But i have seen some problems like this with gasoil with a temperature rise of only 30 degrees celsius. Not breaking anything but i can imagine the pressure build up from fluid to gas and 290 degrees. The shaft seals are not made for that i think. But im never worked with systema like this. Offcourse you want to close valves for maintenance but there should be some way to get the pressure out safely like with a minimess connection. I dont like to work on a pump thats -270 degrees😅

@@devinhorner2358 but I like thinking about thes kind of things, thanks for thinking along. Maybe a little bit too deep for a game though. For the game im mostly interested in how they will implement the damage control, would love a game that needs quick thinking solutions

@@striehassus Wow, a dredger! That's got be an experience. Yeah, I think its fun to thought-experiment too. I think this is the kind of game where you can have a lot of head canon that explains stuff and how you want to operate the plant. Eventually there's going to be an official tech manual, so I'll be interested to pore through that

Perhaps you'll be in for a surprise soon...

Excellent chief. I mainly fly A4 on DCS in VR, love seeing the older and the nam envoirements in strike fighters but I don't own the game. (Or know the mods) and I love your stories during the missions about the quirks of being on a navy ship or things about the war.

No ship designing, at least to begin with, but there is an engineering control room that is currently empty. It would seem likely that some kind of Electrical Plant control panel would be in there for remotely connecting a lot of these breakers. The local control would remain for damage control, probably. Alternately, it seems like AI crew will perhaps handle the running around if you don't want to worry about it.

At first, I agreed with you, then I put a bit of thinking in it, while simpler and more centralized startup design would be nice, that would defeat the purpose of checking the good working of the equipment on startup, I think. Of course, Chief Horner shouldn't have to run the decks to energize and check everything, I think he would be at his office, remotely double-checking the checklist being done by his crew and personally checking a few critical components, but it's still nice of him to show the ropes to the new ratings and ensigns.

@@Eytaris Sitting in an office is a Chief's favorite thing

@@devinhorner2358 wasn't smuggling crates of high quality Saurian Brandy disguised as boxes of fusion core head gaskets the favorite things of engineering Chiefs? XD

It would be cool if assigned personnel sometimes don't complete the tasks for some reason, injuries, forgetting, AWOL, and if there were failures that caused injuries and need repairs or replacement

Yes, once the entire ship is complete and every system is finally in place they'll have to add all those things in an order that makes sense. The new design should be included in the next tech demo update which may be as soon as a couple of weeks. I'll most likely add to my own procedure until the official one come out