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Heat conductivity of Radial Attachment point should be increased


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Problem: I noticed that using a couple of the BZ-52 Radial Attachment Points to attach LV-N engines to the bottom of a medium-to-large fuel tank could result in easily overheating the engines, even on a Kerbin-to-Mun transfer. The problem was even worse for interplanetary transfer burns.

Suggested Solution: I think we should radically buff the thermal conductivity of the BZ-52 Radial Attachment Point. I've already experimented with doing this myself via Module Manager by using the following config code:

@PART[stackPoint1]:AFTER[Squad] {
heatConductivity = 0.95 // default is probably 0.12
}

The result is that instead of the Radial Attachment Point acting like a relative insulator, trapping heat in the LV-N engines, it allows the fuel tanks it's attached onto to more effectively sink heat, and on top of that, it also better enables solar panels attached to the fuel tank to do their job of radiating heat (like they're supposed to). The solar panels are supposed to be our heat-radiators after all, but they can't radiate heat if the heat doesn't get to them in the first place, and these radial attachment points seem to be the bottleneck. And it's not like we can stick our solar panels on these radial attachment points either.

I also think this extremely high heat conducivity value of 0.95 is totally justifiable. The part would seem to be little more than a shaped chunk of metal, effectively making it little more than an extension of the LV-N engine itself. So it having extremely high conductivity there shouldn't be entirely unreasonable. Does anybody see a reason why this wouldn't be a good idea?

PS: To be totally clear as to what part that I'm talking about, it's this:

Radial_attachment_point.png

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