Using Kerbal Engineer but the readings dont make sense to me:
SuicideAltitude (or SuicideDistance) was at 0m so I started to burn but crashed into the surface at 600 m/s.
Here's a quick mod-free technique to come up with a pretty good estimate for deciding when to start a suicide burn. Even if you don't use it as your primary go-to technique, you can still use it as a backup "sanity check" for the numbers you get out of some other mod, such as KER:
Get yourself on a suborbital trajectory.
Zoom way in on the map view, and carefully place a maneuver node right on the spot where your trajectory intersects the surface (i.e. your impact point).
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