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KSP Instellar Mod for Kerbal Space Program
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Thermal Receivers not playing nice with each other. #48

Open ghost opened 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

I've been experimenting with spaceplanes powered with Microwave Thermal Receivers, and was having a lot of trouble with them spinning out. I thought it was an aerodynamics issue, until I spotted that the receivers were (after a while) getting out of sync and producing different amounts of heat, and therefore thrust.

The following screenshots show the in-game gui for the thermal receiver parts, showing the different power levels being produced.

screenshot1 screenshot2

The same thing seems to happen for thermal turbojets and thermal rockets, so seems to be tied to the thermal receivers. It doesn't happen around the runway, only when I get high up in the atmosphere. I am using microwave power relays in the above example.

austinjames314 commented 9 years ago

Umm, well the two componnents are mounted parallel to each other, I'm not sure how they could be at different angles. I've wondered if there is an unintentional priority effect going on.

On 14 October 2014 15:43, ruifung notifications@github.com wrote:

Probably because of the angle difference to the nearest relay?

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