jadeNebula

Right, I know both of them can be improved through the upgrades in the tech tree. Currently, the dusty plasma is at mk 4 outputting 6 GW and the generator is at mk 2 at 85% efficiency, meaning with this exact setup the maximum value is 6 * 0.85 = 5.1 GW. If they were both at their full potential, the reactor would output 9 GW and the converter would process at 95%, resulting in 8.55 GW. I don't think that's the problem. I guess the root question here is why the engine is only requesting a third of its maximum draw according to the VAB? (The new UI changes look good though!)

Hi there everyone, I've been struggling through this mod over the last couple weeks and I finally decided to ask for help. I managed to progress pretty far down the tech trees with only nuclear engines since I can't for the life of me figure out the electrical ones, much less beamed power. Here I'm using the ELF engine, a MK4 dusty plasma reactor, and a charged particle converter. Kerbal Engineer says that with my current setup, I should be getting about 78 kN of thrust when the engine requests 2.5 GW of energy. The total heat production of the generator is 6 GW (with the converter at 85% efficiency) and I have enough radiators to cool to almost 14 GW. So I'm puzzled as to why I'm only getting around 1.7 GW requested in the reactor window and only getting 15 kN of thrust when in space. Is it something to do with the placement of the reactor/coverter/engine? Or maybe the engine isn't requesting enough power? Adding more radiators didn't help and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.