Overheating Lakon
- Thread starter jms
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Upgrade the power plant.
In addition to the power plant upgrade, switching off any unused modules will keep the overall temp of the ship down.
just don't get too close to a sun and get knocked out of supercruise, else you might see 300% heat i did
nothing to see here .....move along lol
I take it you have never flown a Lakon? a stock ship gets very hot, this slows down the whole jump process. The difference between a stock power plant and upgraded one is being to charge the drive at 100% heat, as opposed to waiting for the heat to drop to 60% or lower. The Type-7 is the worst, with a stock power plant it will go over 150% every time unless you move well away from the star and allow the ship to cool.
I have a type-6 and can easily get far enough away from the star in the time it takes for the FSD to cool down after a jump. Heck sometimes I'll even trigger my Cobra's FSD while still scooping fuel!
Been a long time since I flew the Type-6, for sure the Type-7 is a pain to keep cool. Cobra's fine, the issue is with the big ships
You don't need to keep the same class power plant as stock either. I was running something ridiculous like a A2 power plant in my Type 7. It had enough total power for all the modules, much better heat efficiency plus it weighed alot less for a better jump range.
If its a trading ship you can really strip it down, check every module for weight and power savings; cargo bays don't use much power. Of course i did remove the shields to achieve such power savings, but that flying garbage can never overheated again and earned a ton of credits.
If its a trading ship you can really strip it down, check every module for weight and power savings; cargo bays don't use much power. Of course i did remove the shields to achieve such power savings, but that flying garbage can never overheated again and earned a ton of credits.
when I am in my type 6's they run hot when scooping even with A class power supplies, but a nice cool 44% normally I will push the temp to 130% when I am scooping at high speed (circling the star) and usually about 110 - 120% when I am scooping at 30km/s but then I am pushing the numbers on the scoop as far as I am comfortable with to make the scooping take less time...
The only time I have had hull damage with them was coming into a backwater system with multiple suns close together and I got dropped out of SC immediately after entering the system (within 5 seconds) and temps rose very quickly to over 150%, always carry heatsinks... I dropped a sink and was about to bring it around and had to wait for FSD cooldown then dropped another sink and began to spool up the FSD, was able to get out of there thankfully intact and with the cargo unharmed
I will push the temp to 130% when I am scooping at high speed (circling the star) and usually about 110 - 120% when I am scooping at 30km/s but then I am pushing the numbers on the scoop as far as I am comfortable with to make the scooping take less time...The only time I have had hull damage with them was coming into a backwater system with multiple suns close together and I got dropped out of SC immediately after entering the system (within 5 seconds) and temps rose very quickly to over 150%, always carry heatsinks... I dropped a sink and was about to bring it around and had to wait for FSD cooldown then dropped another sink and began to spool up the FSD, was able to get out of there thankfully intact and with the cargo unharmed
Heh, I consider the overheating in a Lakon as a feature! You could fry eggs on the dash
LMAO! I just go the picture of converting my 'G-damn' overheating L6 to a roach coach. ROFL, park my L6 lunch truck right outside a station or outpost and cook eggs on the hull for all the hungry commanders flying in.... Too funny!