Stupid LV-N Question

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Hello Guys,

I am not capable of checking into KSP right now but something dubious came to my mind.

Does anybody know how much the Fairing of the LV-N weigh?

Or do they not add any weight at all to the engine?

I have whitnessed These fairing to knock off parts of my Rocket. Batteries that were installed right next to the fairing unter a 2.5 m tank to be precise- So they must have a weight.... right!?

Thanks

Edited March 7, 2014 by MalfunctionM1Ke

[Kasuha]

As far as I know fairings are massless when they're part of the ship and only acquire mass when they separate.

But I may be wrong.

[Dave Kerbin]

Correct, the engines weigh the same before and after removing the fairings (in a similar situation the fairing added by a decoupler to a normal engine has no weight). The fairings discarded by the LV-N obviously have some weight as you've noted but since it didn't come from the engine I'd say they where seperate entities that where just spawned and given initial velocity.

[Red Iron Crown]

I hate the LV-N fairings, I wish they were just a cylinder out of which the engine slides.

This post brought to you by too many ships crippled by ejecting fairing damage.

[Poryy]

There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers.

[vexx32]

Let's move this one on over to Gameplay Questions, shall we?

[capi3101]

LV-N fairings have no mass. As for their ability to knock crucial bits and pieces off of ships, I've taken to not putting anything below them -

You'd be amazed at how stable that long girder/girder adapter combo is when it comes time to connect it up to the booster. Nothing attached to the bottom of the nukes means no shrouds, means no boom.

I have heard of ways you can actually direct how the shrouds eject such that they annihilate each other before they annihilate your ship, but I've yet to use any of those methods successfully.

[Oggula]

Yeah the fairings broke all my designs when they were added in 0.18, luckily they don't blow up big stuff like engines any more

[Dispatcher]

Yes, I usually place my LV-Ns (and some fuel tanks) radially using struts. I use at least 3 symmetry so I never have problems with stability. Of course by doing this instead of stacking them, there are never any fairings and their attendant ability to damage something.