Daxter's Stack-Mounted RTGs (v1, 2013-11-09)

[daxter]

Hi all!

I got fed up with the seeming lack of stack-mountable RTGs and rolled my own. Models are shameless clones of the stock batteries, with a quick & dirty partial retexture. They are balanced against the stock RTG, and come in three sizes:

• 0.625m part: 0.07 mass, 0.55 EC/s
  
• 1.25m part: 0.2 mass, 1.5 EC/s
  
• 2.5m part: 0.8 mass, 6.0 EC/s
  

Since Spaceport's account creation seems to be broken, here's a download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15506618/stackrtg/DXTR-StackRTGs-1.0.zip

Whatever small amount of original content there is, is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. The rest is by Squad.

[quantumpion]

They should still have radiators sticking out of them otherwise they will melt themselves!

[daxter]

They should still have radiators sticking out of them otherwise they will melt themselves!

Short answer: I can't model my way out of a paper bag.

Longer: Radiative cooling is a function of surface area, and the two smaller ones do have roughly appropriate amounts of external surface per unit of energy produced, if you compare them to the stock RTG. (Besides it's mostly black!) The larger one might have a problem though...

[kaldak]

Just a thought: you could use part welding to add stock RTGs or some other fin-shaped object to the outside surface if you so desired.