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Cinder Spires Airship Specs So Far
Serack:
--- Quote from: Quantus on September 30, 2015, 05:56:18 PM ---Of course, induced current in a conductor is how AC motors generate torque period, but they don't require the conductor being acted upon to be pre-charged.
Well, AC motors dont need something to start itonly because the current itself is constantly changing, it's one of the particular quirks of AC power. In DC motors you need some starting torque to get the cycle operating, or it stalls out/locks up. But that's a matter of starting a cycle.
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*blink blink*
*desperately resists the urge to launch into a long post about motor theory*
OMG this is almost painful.
Blarg. Here, I believe this website explains what you were trying to say about starting torque for different motor designs.
You may now go to your regularly scheduled fictional technology theorizing.
Serack:
By the way, battleships and dreadnaughts are to ships like Itasca (I forget what class Itasca is) what Itasca is to Predator.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Serack on September 30, 2015, 06:09:28 PM ---*blink blink*
*desperately resists the urge to launch into a long post about motor theory*
OMG this is almost painful.
Blarg. Here, I believe this website explains what you were trying to say about starting torque for different motor designs.
You may now go to your regularly scheduled fictional technology theorizing.
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...sort of. That is single phase vs 3-phase power, but both are still AC induction motors. I was harking back to the differences between Alternating and Direct Current in electric motors, thinking more int eh War of Currents era of things.
raidem:
Power cores get more efficient with age. That was the hidden secret about the predator, her core is thousands of years old.
Might be off on age, just made statement with recollection.
I think Itasca was a battlecruiser. A very good battlecruiser.
Lind:
I think Jim may have lifted the ship class naming conventions off of David Weber's Honor Harrington series (a sci-fi take on Horatio Hornblower as opposed to Jim's steam punk take).
In increasing order in size in that universe with a line break
Destroyer
Light Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Battlecruiser
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Battleship
Dreadnought
Superdreadnought
Each ship class higher on the list is generally bigger, better armored, carries better weaponry, but also is slower than ships lower on the list. Simply put in a stand up fight usually any 1 ship higher on the list can pound any 1 ship lower on the list (or several of them) into scrap... if they can come close enough to fight.
Ships before the break are often depending on need/availability/callousness, escorts, pickets, transports, or swarm use fodder. Expect to frequently see these ships operating alone or in small groups and to be the sorts of ships we should see a lot of since those are good settings for adventure.
Ships after the break are the so called "ships of the line", big mobile gun and armor platforms that will line up and blow the heck out of whatever they are attacking/is attacking them. Expect to see individual ships in this class by themselves rarely but frequently see them enmasse in settings where the word fleet is used.
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