AeroEngy

Thanks for the information. I'm sure I'll have more questions as I get back into this mod. I haven't played KSP for over a year so lots of new things to get back into. What??? No such thing as too much power! Actually I was messing around and put 2x antimatter reactors / thermal turbojets on a MK2 plane. It was ~10g at full throttle in atmospheric mode off the runway and I killed Jeb pretty quick. I had a hard time keeping the throttle low enough for it to be controllable ... might have been a tad of overkill. Thanks again.

I wasn't to worried about waste heat in this test. I was just trying to get a feel for the performance level of the quantum vacuum mode. I just needed it to not shut down for < 1 minute. I was mainly curious if this very low thrust level is typical in quantum vac mode? Why max throttle power is only ~500MW when the reactor/generator combo can produce up to 3.9GW.... what is limiting the power output to the thruster?

I have been away from this mod for a long time but thought I would give it a go in sandbox and test out some stuff. I seem to be having a problem with plasma thruster operating in quantum vacuum mode ... or am not understanding something. My test vehicle has a 1.25m antimatter reactor, charged particle gen, & a plasma thruster in quantum vac mode. Reactor Stats: Charged Power 586MW / 4.5GW (Why isn't it generating more?) Generator Stats: Current Power 507MW of 3.89GW Thrust: 0.8kN with max throttle power: 507MW (Is this all that the thruster can do? Is it limited in the power it can output?) I kind of assumed I would get more thrust out of it since the wiki states this: I am certainly not seeing the same performance as liquid fuel ... so whats going on exactly. Thanks for any information.