The issue I see is this: as far as I can tell, virtually all the available photos of degaussing cables for IJN ships, regardless of class or size, show that the practice was to run the cable as high as possible relative to the edge of the main deck, excepting the need to wrap it around a sponson base. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・
Thanks, Dan,for replying to my post.
I rather suggest you to check up other cruisers, for ex.:
●My favorite
Aoba and Kinugasa have the lower cable around the stern hulll area & the bow area, too.
●Among 4 sisters of Myoko class,
Myoko has the lower one,too.
But 3 other sisters have theirs´ as high.●
Chokai most likely has the same lower one. Pls see pic from 1942 at Singapore once again.
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Maya most apparently has the same lower one here.
●Well how would I classify cable of
Agano class 4 cruisers.
● What about cable of
TONE ?
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Mogami 1944 has the higher cable around here ? I shouldn´t think so.
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Mikuma 1942 at Midway has the higher cable popsition here, too? Neither I think so.
I will be giving my answer to the below later.
I learned something different from this. IJN liet.commander Fukada Msao was
in a former circle where I belonged to.
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I would imagine it was done this way to both maximize the cable's field effect, and to minimize the physical impact of the sea upon it. You are implying that Maya was treated differently by carrying her cable lower down, and I would wonder why that is? I'm just thinking out loud.↑ ↑
I have to adimit one´s
imagination doesn´t lead to getting IJN truths.
It can get you entangled and confused in many ways. And I love to avoid doing that.
But qualified guesses based on IJN data /documents,official calcurations & analysis-data
are very acceptable.
"Maximizing cables´s field effect" --
I recall well that liet.Cmdr Fukada never mentioned such a thing as you wrote.
He says that magnetablilty of ships hull is different from ship to ship.
( this is very important to remember first)
In order to cancell directionability of magnetism of either "N" or "S", amount of the electric power
to apply as counter current is there-fore very different from ship to ship.
This means that some ships have less N or S current around it´s own hull than other ships
when born from dockyards. Some ships with more courrent,too.
Therefore the word "maximizing " is something
not precisely appropriate for this matter,
i must say.
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I thought you knew that the most affected place of degaussing cable is around the bow side area
where the cable can get torn off in high seas.
PHA voyage was one of the examples as i wrote in my precious post.
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As you must have checked other cruisers which have lower cable position.
It is nothing but an IJN truths and there is not much room for imagination and fantacy
that may take up much longer time of you without having any correct anwsers.
If you still have them, probably it will be your own problem like in a similar case of Taiho´s slant
area beside the funnel. Since it´s difficult for me to know how much your question is competent
or not.
Therefore i am unable to think on behalf of form of your imaginations,true.
cheers,
Mutuso Sasaki,