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Post by RA2lover on Oct 2, 2016 9:06:33 GMT
You forgot to type your message after quoting that post. Just sayin'.
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Post by Dhan on Oct 2, 2016 10:01:01 GMT
Nah, I mistakenly put it inside the quote. Can't edit it as a guest unfortunately. The message was: Put this bad boy on my ship and now my game crashes when loading a mission. 10/10 would use again  And it turns out, it's not just this particular reactor. I crashed with another reactor that had similar material use. |
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Post by blothorn on Oct 2, 2016 10:04:58 GMT
Probably the bug with 0-thickness reflectors; bump it up one click.
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Post by Dhan on Oct 2, 2016 10:07:58 GMT
Probably the bug with 0-thickness reflectors; bump it up one click. That fixed it. Thanks. |
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Post by leerooooooy on Oct 2, 2016 18:37:41 GMT
Also, thermocouple efficiency/strenght is backwards. According to the tooltip, thermocouples should become less efficient but stronger as they are made longer -- currently, the opposite is true. So that explains why all designs I see are using the minimum thermocouple lenght? |
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Kahl'Zun
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Post by Kahl'Zun on Oct 4, 2016 11:10:36 GMT
Whats the reactor design with the highest efficiency % people have made? Surely that determines power/mass ratio as much as anything? Also, whats the biggest people have made? I tried to make a gigawatt reactor, and i don't think its possible with the current materials.
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Post by elouda on Oct 4, 2016 12:02:29 GMT
The problem with high efficiency is that it requires lower operating temperature, which mean that anything you gain in terms of reactor power-to-weight efficiency you loose once you add the radiators. Maybe if you use massive ultra-light radiators you can still come out ahead, but at that point your ship wont last in combat.
I find that going for around 2500k operating temperature results in a small radiator profile, even if I have to use 2 or 3 reactors instead of one.
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acatalepsy
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Post by acatalepsy on Oct 4, 2016 12:13:08 GMT
Whats the reactor design with the highest efficiency % people have made? Surely that determines power/mass ratio as much as anything? Also, whats the biggest people have made? I tried to make a gigawatt reactor, and i don't think its possible with the current materials. What elouda said. Also, efficiency just denotes the ratio of power produced to waste heat produced; it has nothing to do with the mass of the reactor. More waste heat is bad (because it requires bigger radiators and flares), but it's not the most important thing by a long shot. You'd rather have a lighter reactor producing more power (and waste heat) at a lower efficiency and higher output temperature. |
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Post by apophys on Oct 4, 2016 13:13:05 GMT
I tried to make a gigawatt reactor, and i don't think its possible with the current materials.  I could probably shave some mass, but it exists. UPDATE: Now weighs only 15.6 tons. Same output and dimensions. ThermoelectricFissionReactorModule 1.01 GW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor
ReactorCoreDimensions_m 0.1 0.1
NuclearReactor
Coolant Sodium
Moderator Diamond
ModeratorMass_kg 4
Fuel U-235 Dioxide
FuelMass_kg 10
FuelEnrichment_Percent 0.97
ControlRodComposition U-233 Dioxide
ControlRodMass_kg 9
NeutronReflector Diamond
ReflectorThickness_m 0.597
AverageNeutronFlux__m2_s 2e+020
InnerTurbopump
Composition Amorphous Carbon
PumpRadius_m 1
RotationalSpeed_RPM 570
ThermocoupleInnerDimensions_m 5 6.3
Thermocouple
PTypeComposition Tungsten
NTypeComposition Tantalum
Length_m 0.001
ThermocoupleExitTemperature_K 2500
OuterCoolant Sodium
OuterTurbopump
Composition Calcium
PumpRadius_m 0.5
RotationalSpeed_RPM 600
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Post by beta on Oct 4, 2016 18:48:21 GMT
Whenever I see multiple fields bottomed out or topped out it screams integrator flaw to me ... heh.
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Post by Durandal on Oct 4, 2016 18:53:49 GMT
I tried to make a gigawatt reactor, and i don't think its possible with the current materials. ThermoelectricFissionReactorModule 1.01 GW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor
ReactorCoreDimensions_m 0.1 0.1
NuclearReactor
Coolant Sodium
Moderator Diamond
ModeratorMass_kg 4
Fuel U-235 Dioxide
FuelMass_kg 10
FuelEnrichment_Percent 0.97
ControlRodComposition U-233 Dioxide
ControlRodMass_kg 9
NeutronReflector Diamond
ReflectorThickness_m 0.58
AverageNeutronFlux__m2_s 2e+020
InnerTurbopump
Composition Amorphous Carbon
PumpRadius_m 1.1
RotationalSpeed_RPM 420
ThermocoupleInnerDimensions_m 5 5.7
Thermocouple
PTypeComposition Tungsten
NTypeComposition Tantalum
Length_m 0.001
ThermocoupleExitTemperature_K 2500
OuterCoolant Sodium
OuterTurbopump
Composition Calcium
PumpRadius_m 0.8
RotationalSpeed_RPM 600
I could probably shave some mass, but it exists. Welp, time to start building resistojets and big ass lasers. |
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acatalepsy
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Post by acatalepsy on Oct 4, 2016 18:54:38 GMT
I could probably shave some mass, but it exists. That's how we do it, apophys.  |
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Post by leerooooooy on Oct 4, 2016 20:40:47 GMT
Whenever I see multiple fields bottomed out or topped out it screams integrator flaw to me ... heh. You can say "integrator flaw" without even looking and you'llbe right most of the times, this game has so many bugs and its players are too smart to let them go unexploited |
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Post by apophys on Oct 5, 2016 11:23:36 GMT
Updated the 1GW reactor with a version lighter by 4 tons.
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aiyel
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Post by aiyel on Oct 6, 2016 17:35:27 GMT
Updated the 1GW reactor with a version lighter by 4 tons. Yes, but can you up it to 1.21 gW? Only then can we go back in time and defeat our enemies before they were ever born. |
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