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I'd say most of us with technical minds will do that. Problem is, figuring out most of them depends on having the thorough user manual at hand to read each gau
by TuringTest 4y ago
I'd say most of us with technical minds will do that.
Problem is, figuring out most of them depends on having the thorough user manual at hand to read each gauge or button's purpose; AND understanding what that purpose means, which depends on having an engineering education from the same era when they were built.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoI'm not sure you need the manual and an education from that era. When I've read everything I can find about a subject it's surprising how much you can understand. The challenges are often that so many of the systems are kinda uninteresting (gland steam pressure on a turbogenerator for example), only used in specific circumstances (fire control panels) or duplicated (ship controls often have 4+ controls which turn the azipods, not to mention the repeated controls on the bridge wings). The last time I deducted too much time to this endeavour I started to understand the ballast controls on a O-class submarine...