Rotor Engine Block suggestion

[aruoch]

Currently the rotors that were introduced in breaking ground have an odd set of characteristics, but more to the point they only seem good for about 20m/s in most situations. they certainly aren't breaking the sound barrier yet from what i've seen, and "stock props" were before the dlc.

 

in my opinion the engine is not powerful enough and the torque is too high. there should be engine nodes added that give greater power to the current rotor engines. to get a craft that can actually lift something interesting you have to use the largest rotor type which is generally way too high torque for smaller craft.

[GoldForest]

On 6/2/2019 at 7:56 AM, aruoch said:

Currently the rotors that were introduced in breaking ground have an odd set of characteristics, but more to the point they only seem good for about 20m/s in most situations. they certainly aren't breaking the sound barrier yet from what i've seen, and "stock props" were before the dlc.

 

in my opinion the engine is not powerful enough and the torque is too high. there should be engine nodes added that give greater power to the current rotor engines. to get a craft that can actually lift something interesting you have to use the largest rotor type which is generally way too high torque for smaller craft.

The reason the rotors aren't that good for helicopters or planes is there's speculation that real prop parts are coming to KSP in a future update or in the next DLC next year. 

And the rotors aren't engine parts, their mechanical robot parts. They were never designed with props in mind.

That and there's a limit to how fast the homemade props can spin.

Edited June 4, 2019 by GoldForest

[Guest]

I haven't tried to make prop things go fast but even so one of the craft I made cruises at 75 m/s, and all of my choppers cruise between 35 and 50 m/s, and there the limitations are aerodynamic and with the helices I'm using. The engines are plenty powerful as far as I'm concerned. 

Stock turboprops are insanely powerful, and a testament to the creativity and skill of the people who made them. It would in my view be unreasonable to expect stock electric motors to match them. After all there's nothing stopping you from making turboprops using robotic parts as bearings only.

Edited June 4, 2019 by Guest

[RocketSquid]

Also, this is comparing turboprops to electric motors. They are very, very different things.