Kerbal Electric animated Turbofan engines - New : Low bypass KT-8D jet engine !

[ZLM-Master]

Hi !

I test your last engine & it had a great looking . Spin part wobble a bit but it's fine when raise down spin speed a bit .

Nice job again .

Ah !! A stupid saucer inspired by your engine

[sgt_flyer]

well, the collision mesh of the fairings is not round (and it's even more noticable as we reduce the bearing's size:p) and as the wheels have no suspensions, it's normal that it wobbles a bit - once it's spins at it's cruise speed though, the wobbling becomes much less noticable (same thing as that Mythbuster's square wheels test ! ).

[JPmAn]

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

[ZLM-Master]

Hi !

Just a suggestion for night travel !

Just put mk2 illuminator & for circle light FX , but it's up to you

Edit : You right that's not realistic , maybe just good for SCI-FI Craft !

Edited May 25, 2015 by ZLM-Master

[sgt_flyer]

turbofans don't emit visible light everything's masked by the turbine's blades (and there's even less light visible from the main fan ^^ unless you have a fire in your turbofan which is baaad

[syfyguy64]

People are literally building jet engines without jet engines in game (or at least masking them by over complicating).

[JPmAn]

Can we have a LEAP 1B engine?

[Aanker]

Helicopter engine please

[sgt_flyer]

I'll see what i can do for a Leap engine - though these 'waves' might induce a high part count

As for helicopter engines, unfortunately, torque engines of this size are not enough (even with 11x 1.25m reaction wheels my tests for propellers barely reached 11m/s in this new atmo - horizontally on the runway !), and i'm not sure those bearing could easily support the weight of an helicopter.

[Overland]

these look great.. could I possibly make a request though?

since 0.90 or 1.0 not sure which... they killed off my favorate intakes... I used the disc shaped black boring intakes as radiator fans on locomotives.. the "new" ones which are like aerospike engines without the spike look ugly as hell and are far too large..

would it be possible to cut down one of these engines to have *only* the fan.. have it still be animated and use it as an intake fan?

Id love to have animated radiator fans on 4408 II and her sistertrains

(top of locomotive)

doesnt matter if they consume any electricity or fuel I can adjust that accordingly

Thanks.. your work is great.. best of luck in the future

Edited June 5, 2015 by Overland

[sgt_flyer]

Mmh - i'll look into it (though you'll need some free space with no parts in the way of the bearing if you want a stable version that don't go too high over the locomotive)

[SHiftER2O]

Motivation here

[Azimech]

Wow, the new fairings are awesome for this sort of thing. You'd never be able to do this with any mod.

Nope, you can do this with Procedural Fairings, and even much more than with the stock fairings.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Azimech

[Chittychad23]

I don't understand how to download this mod. Is it just subassemblies?

[Azimech]

Correct.

[sgt_flyer]

It's not a mod it's stock subassemblies

You just put the subassemblies with your other .craft subassemblies, and radially attach the engine mounts subassemblies to your plane (you can use symmetry on those), then attach the corresponding engine subassembly 1 by 1 to each mount (stock fairings having the nasty habit of not being copied through symmetry )

You can also add the demonstration planes .crafts to your SPH folder, if you want to directly test those

Just read the instructions onto how to start those engines

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

I don't understand how to download this mod. Is it just subassemblies?

Just subassemblies, put them in:

C:/<KSP Folder>/ saves/<Your save name>/Subassemblies

E: Triple ninja!

[Bubbadevlin]

AMAZING!! I am surprised you got around the whole "cannot activate when stored" and the random overheating of parts in fairings.. Very impressive

[sgt_flyer]

Well, i used those basic jet engines (for the smaller engines) because it allowed me to carefully adjust them outside of the fairings (it's generally just on the limit between 'stored' and not 'stored' )

The decouplers and reaction wheels themselves work without problem within fairings

[Brosky45]

I have a problem with the KE-90 jet engines, I can't seem to get the engines to work due to the "cannot activate when stored" error. The other engines work though, just not the KE-90.

[sgt_flyer]

try to slightly translate the engines backwards - though i had positionned them specifically to avoid that

mmh - retested it, worked fine in 1.04 for me except for the cubic strut linking the jet engine to the mount which had the overheating bug (i simply replaced the cubic strut by a new one, and translated the radially attached I-beam to the correct position the and it worked fine - including the KE-90 thrust reversers)

Edited September 12, 2015 by sgt_flyer

[Brosky45]

I realigned the engines to the back, like you said, but I have encountered another problem.

Since the engine wraps around the engine cone, the cone overheats and explodes, taking the engine with it. I don't know how to fix it.

[sgt_flyer]

Weird - do your log tell you that the cone was damaged by engine exhaust ?

As i told, on my install i had no such problem do you happen to have mods or stock bugfixes installed (or modified thermal values)

You might be experiencing the thermal bug here - one of the problems is that somehow some of the physics.cfg properties are saved in the .crafts files.

Try to remove the physics.cfg files from your KSP folder, restart the game to regenerate the file, and redownload the subassembly (i reuploaded the KE-90.craft subassembly - which works in 1.04 for me (though it likes pulling Gs less than before )

Edited September 13, 2015 by sgt_flyer

[Brosky45]

Weird - do your log tell you that the cone was damaged by engine exhaust ?

As i told, on my install i had no such problem do you happen to have mods or

You might be experiencing the thermal bug here - one of the problems is that somehow some of the physics.cfg properties are saved in the .crafts files.

stock bugfixes installed (or modified thermal values)

Try to remove the physics.cfg files from your KSP folder, restart the game to regenerate the file, and redownload the subassembly (i reuploaded the KE-90.craft subassembly - which works in 1.04 for me (though it likes pulling Gs less than before )

No, the engine wasn't activated or the craft launched yet. I just loaded the plane into the game, and the cone just heated up on the runway and exploded.

I just temporarily fixed it by removing the cone from the engine.

As for the stock fixes, just the memory leak one from the heating system.

[sgt_flyer]

Yeh, that's the overheating bug you got, if it was exploding as soon as the physics kicked in (a conflict between parts inside & outside of fairings). If you try to add a new cone, should work fine (but before that, delete your physics.cfg file and let the game regenerate a fresh one on it's next start - try to redownload the ke-90 now that i saved a working version in 1.04 (i had a cubic strut overheating due to that bug myself when i tried it - i replaced the strut and everything worked fine - but i already regenerated the physics.cfg file before )

I encountered the bug while working on a block I interstage - just regenerating the physics.cfg wasn't enough, the parts from the saved .craft kept overheating until i replaced them by new ones.

Edited September 13, 2015 by sgt_flyer