Originally Posted by
WingNut60
Admittedly I know nothing about marine diesel-electric propulsion systems, but surely loss of one engine, even if it led to cascading trip off-line for the other overloaded engines would still leave you three running engines that can be brought back on-line fairly sharpish with reduced load.
And I'd have thought that for such a critical function there would be automatic load shedding for non-critical feeders anyway.
Correct, that is how it is programmed to work.
But did it work that way?
More problems can be experienced when you have the Main propulsion proppelors with controllable pitch propellors connected to one side of the Main engine and the generator on the other side of the Main engine.
If propellors come above waterlevel due to waves. It will be difficult to control constant revolutions.