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  1. my 1st designs were pushing about the same as yours, 300~400 MW. Then I saw Manley's video where he edited the EC capacity of the Transmitters to get higher output. check this one here http://youtu.be/YtelByoyDQg?t=10m

    I don't think the panels from the mod would cause any issues. Still generates same resource in game. Just want to have enough EC to match the total output of the panels.

  2. Impressive! Becareful when you switch to it in the future though, IR parts sometimes go crazy and shake the entire craft to millions of pieces. Also, if you add enough batteries, so the total EC is 10~15k, you'll transmit much more power, 1GW plus. It really depends on how many gigantors you pack into it. I have a few around the sun at 250km, 60+ gigantors each IIRC, enough batteries for 15k total EC. ~1.5 GW beamed from each. About half dozen redesigns and kraken sacrafices. But they are good for maintenance free MW power

  3. In stock, the part that Interstellar uses as a precooler is called "Radial engine body," and it's just an aesthetic variant on a structural fuselage. Interstellar renames it and adds a module that works with the changes to the engines. The ModuleManager config with the changes is in Interstellar's folder.

    The 200km apoapsis on airbreathing engines was probably the bug in FAR 0.12.5.2 that made those engines overpowered at high airspeed. The precooler code has no effect on how an engine's thrust varies with speed or altitude; it only governs whether you get Interstellar-applied heating in addition to stock heating.

    makes sense, I was looking at the config file in Squad folder, not Interstellar. the thrust still drops off drastically above 20km. biggest change is the engine won't start to overheat until much higher altitude with a precooler, which allows it to run pretty much up till 40km. and above 30km, just about any amount of thrust will push the apoapsis higher on a small single seater. Without precooler the engine starts to overheat around 17km.

  4. 1. From my experiments precooler is per intake, and seem to only add altitude ceiling for stock turbofan (take off to 200km apoapsis without rocket engine at all). B9 Saber and Turbofan engines still overheat around 1300m/s and 23km+... I'm not even sure how Precoolers work at all. Nothing in the config files shows anything special that sets it apart from a normal part config. Without Interstellar mod, you don't even see the status text "Precooler: Active"

    2. Yep, that's part of the tech upgrade apparently. I was surprised myself at first, but it's incredibly convenient, and sensible.

  5. Little fun cooked up as an excuse to decommission an old space station

    Part 1: Unauthorized Takeoff at KSC

    Part 2: Space Station Resupply Mission

    Part 3: SABOTAGE!

    Part 4: Orbital Rescue

    Part 5: Three Space Kowboys

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