Talk:Shield

Depletion
Have any episodes said why shields actually deplte, or made any sort of hint towards it? My guess is that every shield has a buffer that charges up energy whilst the shields are not in use and is capable of releasing that energy a lot faster than, say, a naquadah reactor. When this buffer runs out of energy it has to recharge and can only do that at the slow rate that the primary power generators can make and the shield does not have enough power to resist anymore fire so "fails". The Atlantis shield can be invincible because a ZPM can output enough power at a high enough rate to resist the weapons fire without the need for a buffer and so the shield cannot run out of power until the ZPM does, unless of course the weapons firing at you contain more energy but that would require 2 ZPMs or cirtainly more power than most races can produce. Sman789 17:35, 5 February 2009 (UTC)