Large reaction wheels and heat

[selfish_meme]

Just had several cubic structures explode. They were mounted under a mk1-2 pod with batteries and little rcs tanks attached. On the other side a large reaction wheel, then a fairing base. The cubic peices and attached bits were inside the interstage fairing. They exploded due to heat, but where from, had a single mainsail under an orange and a half and two radial SRB's. Saw in a thread in the Spacecraft Exchange someone else complain about stuff attached to a large reaction wheel explode on ascent. Cannot do anymore testing right now just a heads up.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Yes, I have this problem with my Orion, a cubic strut I clipped inside the fairing explodes when I launch.

[NecroBones]

Someone reported on one of my mod threads that the mod's reaction wheels were appearing to spontaneously overheat. Maybe there's something to this?

[Geschosskopf]

From another thread.

Yup, it happens.

[Rhomphaia]

From another thread.

Yup, it happens.

The Cubic Octagonal Strut issue is different. and unrelated to the reaction wheels

They have an issue with having more than one heavier part radially attached. It normally only shows up when the game starts to take shortcuts with the physics calculations, such as physics warp, or very large vessels, or when approaching space station etc

Also affects Octagonal Struts. Believed to be related to this bug

[BDelacroix]

I've had spacecraft sink into the surface of minmus on load (they then blow up).

I've had all my cargo bay contents spontaneously overheat and explode whenever any acceleration is turned on.

My externally mounted solar panels overheat at 70k (just barely in atmosphere) every time on reentry.

So I'm not terribly surprised. I still play, though.