Switchblade88 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 1. Start the fuel line on the tank with the engine attached.2. End the fuel line on the external/ drop tanks.3. Fuel will be drawn from the external tanks as a PRIORITY before starting on the original/centre/receiving tanks.NOTE:fuel lines will flow through RCS tanks and SAS modules to an engine, but not an ASAS module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WX_Echo Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Thanks for the data! This is actually quite helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchblade88 Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Glad to help. I\'m hoping most people will see the subtitle and understand rather than reading the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huojin Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 So the exterior tanks are emptied first, before the tank attached to the engine, and then you can decouple them and continue on with less weight? Just to check I\'ve got this right... Don\'t want to end up decoupling full tanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moach Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 the ' further' a tank is along the linkage chain/tree, the highest priority it has to begin fueling whatever\'s plugged to it...this makes it possible to predict the flow order and design your fuel systems quite nicely, i must say - my mnemonic rule-of-thumb for fuel line placement is 'to, from'first click sets the destination, second click sets the source.... this also means it\'s impossible to feed parts that don\'t allow surface attachment by routing fuel to it directly (which needs to be fixed, as i have told HarvesteR)even so, you can always edit your cfg\'s and make your engines allow it - or you can plug the line onto a tank that feeds the engine normally, and it\'ll work just as wella cool trick i like to do, is to route fuel over a PLF set explosive bolt between the source and target tankage...this gives you the authority to manually 'cut' the fuel flow when you pop the bolt, and works wonders when you have an overweight upper stage that needs to get up there with less tha its full load, or if you have a Falcon-9 type of setup where you want the center part of three identical stacks to keep burning after the side tanks are empty:thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWigWam Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 This kind of stuff should be on the wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 This kind of stuff should be on the wiki.The wiki is too full of spam to be of much use right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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