How to measure heat flow?

[Interplanetary Engineer]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working at my first mod, and have not found any information on this:

How would I go about finding the current heat flow through a part?

Also, am I able to change the parameters of other modules of the part on the fly?

Many thanks in advance

[Interplanetary Engineer]

Help?

[sarbian]

You may need to explain your needs more extensively. 

[Interplanetary Engineer]

Sorry if I was too vague. I have now hopefully found a solution for the first problem: the  part.thermalConductionFlux  seems to be what I need.

My other question was: could a custom module on a part manipulate e.g. the thrust settings of that part?

Edited September 14, 2017 by Interplanetary Engineer

[Shadowmage]

On 9/14/2017 at 6:04 AM, Interplanetary Engineer said:

Sorry if I was too vague. I have now hopefully found a solution for the first problem: the  part.thermalConductionFlux  seems to be what I need.

My other question was: could a custom module on a part manipulate e.g. the thrust settings of that part?

Re: heat -- there is also:

part.thermalConvectionFlux (between part and atmosphere)
part.radiationFlux (between part and...uhh.. space..)

 

Thrust manipulation -- sure.  Might have compatibility issues with other part-modules that attempt to do the same thing, but as long as only one is manipulating the thrust (and it is done correctly), there should be no problems.  TCA (Throttle Controlled Avionics) does pretty much exactly that.  My engine clustering and procedural SRB modules manipulate engine module's thrust as well (let me know, can provide links to source examples if desired).