What are the puddle jumpers powered by?

[Gatefan1121]

I was wondering what they are powered by. Because they never said anything about it.

[aAnubiSs]

I've always thought they've got a battery which is charged when they arrive in the Jumper bay.

[AscendedWarrior]

Must be a good battery, since they found a jumper in sg-1 that had been on a planet for 10'000 years, which still worked.

[aAnubiSs]

Must be a good batery, since they found a jumper in sg-1 that had been on a planet for 10'000 years.

That was powered down

[Gate Master]

Im not sure but Asgard use neutrino ion generators for their ships so its likely the ancients know about this tech and surpased it but use smaller versions in their smaller ships or something in between Neutrino ion generators and ZPM's.

Its also possible as Anubis said that there could be on board power cells which are just recharged when possible. But where ive got to its not been addressed yet in an ep.

[Lord Zedd]

You are asking a good question in here. I have been wondering myself the same question and indeed it hasn't been mentioned in the show. Perhaps its battery is running on solarpower? I don't know. I am not an expert on science. I want to be one but ...

[Gate Master]

Another power source just occured to me. We know large gravity wells can power ancient tech so may be they can tap in to a planets gravity to power smaller craft and tech with almost perpetual energy so long as they are with in the gravitational field. Then battery back for when more power is requirred or they journy in to deep space

[Bragi]

Diesel-electric?

No wait... that's U-Boats.

Um..... Twin Ion Engines?

D'oh, so close!

[Gatefan1121]

This topic just made me think of something else. What are zats and staff weapons powered by?

[aAnubiSs]

This topic just made me think of something else. What are zats and staff weapons powered by?

Liquid Naquadah... or atleast the staff weapons are.

[AscendedWarrior]

That was powered down

Yes, but batteries still get empty even if you don't use them.

[aAnubiSs]

A unused battery will not lose it's energy at the same rate as an active one. Yes there will be some loss from an unactivated one, however the Ancients probably had much better ways of maintaining their power stores, giving us a 10,000-yo battery still operational. They weren't using Lithium batteries

[MarshAngel]

Perhaps the same power source as the DHDs. Those last a pretty long time. I'm going to make a guess and say they had several different power sources; each one suited to its specific task. DHD power sources last for eons but I don't think they would put out enough power to power a large ship with hyperdrives - a short range puddle jumper though... just maybe.

so far we've come across
naquadah generators
liquid naquadah
neutrino ion generators
Zpms

feel free to add. Any one or a combination of two might be the thing.

[Gate Master]

Perhaps the same power source as the DHDs. Those last a pretty long time. I'm going to make a guess and say they had several different power sources; each one suited to its specific task. DHD power sources last for eons but I don't think they would put out enough power to power a large ship with hyperdrives - a short range puddle jumper though... just maybe.

so far we've come across
naquadah generators
liquid naquadah
neutrino ion generators
Zpms

feel free to add. Any one or a combination of two might be the thing.

I think your right evidenced by not all of their tech being designed with ZPM's in mind. Also why use a ZPM which could do the job if an easy to make power source will do the same job and produce all the necessary power for such long periods of time.

[zpm!!]

i think it's something between a zpm and a nquadah generator.
and just think of the possiblities that if u could hook a n-gen into the jumper.
then u could have a super-jumper.