Zeroignite's Tuned Decouplers

[Zeroignite]

Heya,

I, for one, am tired of having decouplers that are as big as RCS tanks, and either cause a heavy boost stage to not move, or a light payload to go flying over the horizon. To remedy this, I made a series of graduated decouplers based on NovaSilisko\'s mini-decoupler from the SDIR pack, released here with Nova\'s permission.

Jettison force is scaled for a variety of stacks, with masses increasing for the higher-force decouplers. At the low end, there\'s a null-force (violet) decoupler for precision payload launch; fire then gently scoot away with RCS. On the high end, the Zenith (red) version is enough to clear huge stacks quickly. Medium (green) is a drop-in replacement for the standard decoupler.

Download:

Tuned Decouplers (Main Edition) v1 For use with mainline KSP + mods.

Tuned Decouplers (Silisko Edition) v1 This release is balanced for KSP Silisko Edition.

Please let me know if you have issues or would like to suggest different settings. I\'d particularly like feedback on how the main version interacts with some of the other mods out there. Enjoy!

[MC3craze]

I\'d appreciate a mainline version of this mod, Silisko Edition is great and all, but I\'d see more use for these in the main game.

[Volt]

Yeah, I\'d love a mainline version of this too. Someone should have done this long ago - I don\'t like deploying satellites to \'study atmosphere\' at 70,000 feet and having them bump into the upper atmosphere and aerobrake. I like precision. 8)

[Zeroignite]

Got it. Mainline version coming along soonish. The tuning will be less precise than the Silisko Edition because of the great variety of mod packs out there, but sticking with the powers-of-two scaling seems a safe bet.

[Zeroignite]

Mainline KSP version added, check the first post in the thread. Interestingly, it seemed to work better with a linear-ish scale factor.