"Carrier Ford Has Serious Power Problem" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Sep 2016 2:43 p.m. PST |
"For over a year, the US Navy and its shipbuilders have been anxious to get the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) to sea and begin engineering trials of the first-of-class design. A number of publicly-announced target dates have come and gone, but the ship is still firmly moored at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Now, however, a key factor in preventing the ship from casting off lines and getting underway is coming into view. A serious voltage regulator problem on the carrier's four main turbine generators (MTGs) has prevented engineers from running the motors up to full power, and only now has the problem been identified and a fix decided upon. The MTGs are a significant element in the ship's power generation system – an all-new layout supporting a plant developing at least three times the electrical power of previous carriers…" Main page link By the way… "Navy to Brief Congress Soon on the Results of a Future Aircraft Carrier Study" link Amicalement Armand |
Lion in the Stars | 20 Sep 2016 6:54 p.m. PST |
Wow. How the hell do you not realize that it's a generator controller?!? |
Cicero | 20 Sep 2016 9:54 p.m. PST |
Didn't the Charles de Gaulle have an electrical problem as well. When it went full speed the lights would dim! |
Chokidar | 21 Sep 2016 3:20 a.m. PST |
Cicero, – that is normal for anything French – watch Hollande speaking in public… |
Tango01 | 21 Sep 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
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Mako11 | 21 Sep 2016 1:45 p.m. PST |
Perhaps, if they were to install solar panels on the flight deck…….. |
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