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  1. Thanks! Exactly what I needed to know. The hardest thing about learning these things is you have to get into orbit before you can test the engineering/logic.
  2. I'm really debating trying that with my cubic fuel station, the delivery design I had that had 2 orange tanks in orbit (tiny bit left over in aft tank, fore tank full) worked really well, but it was/is a complete pig for manouvering, and with that iteration, I couldn't separate the 2 tanks without losing the engine, and it didn't have a docking ring. Now, it's got the docking ring right behind the fore tank, but the engine doesn't get any fuel after adding a sepatron to it. Still scratching my head on that one, but oh well. I think 12 empty jumbo tanks would be a lot easier to plant in orbit/dock than 12 full ones.
  3. Apologies for not having a picture available, I'm working on that now. I'm trying to get a Rockomax Jumbo-64 tank in a stable orbit with *most* of it's fuel available but able to feed a detachable engine on back. Below it I have a Clamp-O-Tron Sr. Docking Port and then a TR-18D stack separator in front of my poodle engine. I modified my last ship so it had the separator so I could actually dock stuff on the back, before it just wiped out the docking connection. (dunno why) To describe it in more detail, I'm trying to make a cube, each "leg" has a 4-point docking ring at one end, engines on the back but dump the engines and keep another sr. ring in place, so 12 of these will make a cube. I saw a video similar to this but they used RCS tanks on 4 of the "sections". My problem is once I introduced the sr docking clamp ahead of the separator just fore of the engine, now the engine never fires, saying it's starved for fuel. Do I need a transfer pipe/hose to power it when I need it? Or did I do something really unintended in the design? My thought is 2-4 tank squares tied together with 4 verticals and everything using sr docking clamps if I had to move it, or put it farther out in orbit, the doubled-up docking clamps would keep it more intact, considering it's theoretically 12 full jumbo fuel tanks. If I design the back end of each segment with the sr docking clamp and the separator, it doesn't get fuel from the big tank to establish a stable Kerbal orbit. (I need it, at least with this design). Any suggestions?
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