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Post by goduranus on Nov 2, 2016 6:34:19 GMT
Right now reaction wheels scale automatically with the turret, but often this is not necessary and leads to very heavy reaction wheels, would be nice if the inner radius(as in large inner radius causes mass to be concentrated at the rims which would make the reaction wheel more efficient, but there is no real reason to make the ouside radius any smaller than the biggest possible turret can hold, right? I'm no engineer so I'm not sure) and thickness of reaction wheels are adjustable.
Also would be nice if there were reaction wheel modules for steering drones, so they wouldn't need to spend propellant to keep gun on target(worse is that rocket steering accelerates the drones, which disrupts their formation), and spinal mounted laser.
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Post by Pttg on Nov 3, 2016 3:51:38 GMT
I think it's more efficient to switch to lower-density wheels if the turret is large, rather than shrinking them.
As for the drones, that actually makes a lot of sense for very small corrections. Large corrections should probably use RCS.
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Post by Easy on Nov 3, 2016 14:33:15 GMT
Is it verified if the reaction wheels are uniform cylinders or a rim-weighted shape? I like your idea and suggest adding sliders for: - Outer Diameter
- Inner Diameter (where the wheel becomes thinner)(can be percentage)
- Outer Thickness
- Inner Thickness (can be percentage)
Of course we can run into issues where the wheel doesn't have the strength to rotate off-axis and will destroy itself, but it can be mitigated by simply increasing the inner thickness. Lets ignore multi-material reaction wheels for now.
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Post by n2maniac on Nov 5, 2016 3:25:41 GMT
This is particularly painful on, say, doom lasers with a 4m radius aperature (the type that wreaks most things at 250km range).
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Post by Easy on Nov 6, 2016 16:16:47 GMT
This is particularly painful on, say, doom lasers with a 4m radius aperature (the type that wreaks most things at 250km range). True, but remember that its okay to ignore the advisory that your turret rotates slower than 20deg/s.
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Dec 27, 2018 13:51:58 GMT
Currently reaction wheels try (for whatever reason) to fit outside of the cylinder circumscribed around the barrel (*with* barrel armour) which is actually shown on the turret diagram.
This can be gamed to yield thinner, more lightweight wheels (and then make them out of osmium) by simply making the barrel (or injector, for that matter) thicker (which somewhat explains odd gimbals mass math), but it would make more sense to be able to freely adjust wheels' diameter, thickness and inner diameter (if not 0, it means ring shaped wheels) within the bounds of what can fit in the turret.
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