Cold Gas - Compressed Gas RCS Thrusters

[NihilRex]

I was hoping someone would know how to make RCS thrusters that use cold or compressed gasses.

I was thinking that was waste CO2 from TACLS could be combined with waste water or used direct, as a supplement to other RCS systems.

Obviously these would be low thrust and ISP, but if the component were light enough, it would be useful on its own.

[RoverDude]

Just whip up a converter that converts CO2 into monoprop - done. You can do this whole thing with just config files.

[NihilRex]

How do I do that? More specifically, where is a good guide to read? Most modding tutorials seem to be heavy on the 3d modeling side of things...

[Mecripp]

How do I do that? More specifically, where is a good guide to read? Most modding tutorials seem to be heavy on the 3d modeling side of things...

Pick a part you want to be your converter and add

MODULE

{

name = ModuleGenerator

isAlwaysActive = false

activateGUIName = activate converter // <------- name you want to use ?

shutdownGUIName = Deactivate converter

INPUT_RESOURCE

{

name = co2 // <---- if thats what you want ?

rate = 1.5 // <---- if thats the rate you want ?

}

INPUT_RESOURCE

{

name = waste water // <---- if thats what you want ?

rate = 1.5 //<---- if thats the rate you want ?

}

OUTPUT_RESOURCE

{

name = MonoPropellant // <--- If thats what you want to make

rate = 0.7 //<---- if thats the rate you want ?

}

}

[Guest]

TBH, I think it's a rather lousy solution. You get an efficient monoprop factory from life support waste. That's not how it works. You should rather modify an RCS block to use CO2. RealFuels have an option of running RCS on nitrogen, but if you're not using it, you can do it manually.

Make a copy of the stock RCS block, then modify it like this:

MODULE{
	name = ModuleRCS
	thrusterTransformName = RCSthruster
	thrusterPower = 1
	resourceName = CO2
	resourceFlowMode = STAGE_PRIORITY_FLOW
	atmosphereCurve
 	{
   	 key = 0 82
  	 key = 1 15
 	}
}

Remember to also change the "name=" field to something else.

[Mecripp]

TBH, I think it's a rather lousy solution. You get an efficient monoprop factory from life support waste. That's not how it works. You should rather modify an RCS block to use CO2. RealFuels have an option of running RCS on nitrogen, but if you're not using it, you can do it manually.

Make a copy of the stock RCS block, then modify it like this:

MODULE{
	name = ModuleRCS
	thrusterTransformName = RCSthruster
	thrusterPower = 1
	resourceName = CO2
	resourceFlowMode = STAGE_PRIORITY_FLOW
	atmosphereCurve
 	{
   	 key = 0 82
  	 key = 1 15
 	}
}

Remember to also change the "name=" field to something else.

And if you read there post they wanted to use waste water also and it's there game they can play how and set it up how he or she wants we are not bound to play your way.