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Again, based on my ancient experience, this was not a problem. What we did have was a setup for different "busses". You had a parallel redundant electrical system with two "Vital" busses, 2 "Non-vital" busses, 2 DC busses and 2 "tie" busses. Your DC power supplies, (batteries, or for Traveller, solar panels) would power the DC busses, your electrical generators would power the "non-vital" busses, and the tie busses would allow you to cross connect the 2 DC busses or 2 AC busses.Hi,
On modern naval vessels I belive that electrical power gets categorized into different groups depending on how clean the signal is.
This allows you to power either vital bus from both AC generators, as well as whatever DC supply you have running, batteries, solar panels, deisel. That way, if any one power supply fails, the vital bus (and any equipment tied to that bus) is still running. You can swap which bus is the "Vital" bus by setting the right collection of breakers.
Between the AC and DC busses you have Motor Generators, a very cool low tech device that is about 99 percent efficient (if I remember correctly). Essentially it is a DC motor and AC motor wired on the same shaft. You put AC power on the AC side, it produces a DC current and voltage. If you put DC power on its end, you get AC voltage and current out at a frequency governed by the speed of the MG. This plan gives you a lot of flexibility, and redundancy, in case of damage.