I wrote together this handy thermals chart not too long ago. It proved among other things that the Dolphin may have the best (max) thermals of any ship. May have, as there is some grey territory here I need help conquering. First and foremost it's the best cooled ship of all the S size ships. Low weight, the best cool rate. Secondly, it blows all M sized ships out of the water too as it comes in at a lighter weight, comparable heat capacity and still superior max cool rate. Which just leaves the L size ships...
The Imperial Cutter has the best max cool rate of any ship, 72.58 BTU's per second. It's also quite heavy meaning it needs big thrusters, a big shield, etc that all draw heavily on the power plant, creating heat that can't be accounted for in my table (at least not without difficulty interpreting reactor draw). The Anaconda and the Type 10 have an 'okay' and identical max cool rate of 67.15, but the Type 10 weighs three times as heavy as the Anaconda, clocking in at about the same mass and reactor draw as the Cutter.
Now comes the interesting part. I took a Dolphin fitted with mostly E rated modules (aside from the power plant) out to Skardee 1 and hovered at 0% thrust, just above the surface on the 'sunny side' of that hell planet. Thermals stabilized at 44% heat capacity:
I did the same with a Type 10. 'Mostly' E rated modules and a short hover above Skardee 1's sunny side. 46% heat capacity:
Now, I really want to know if the Imperial Cutter cools better than Dolphin. Could someone with a Cutter kit it out roughly like this: https://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutter?code=A0pjttFtlydysDf6---------------3m-4j---------.Iw18ZlA=.Aw18ZlA=..EweloBhA2AWEoFMCGBzANokICMF8KERA (don't bother with the fuel scoop if you don't have it) and do the same thing? Hover it without moving just over the surface of Skardee 1, at the daytime side. Post what % the heat capacity levels out.
Lastly, I am capable of running the same test with the Anaconda also. The Anaconda is special due to its weight and somehow still being an L size ship with all the same caveats. At a 3rd of the weight of the Type 10, you can put quite minimal E rated modules in it. It might have the Dolphin and the Imperial Cutter beat, it might not. We really won't know until we test it. https://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda?code=A0petoFolodDsyf5--------------------------44--.Iw18ZXEA.Aw18ZXEA..EweloBhBmSQUwIYHMA28QgIwVyKBQA==
Oh and no engineering anything or the results won't mean anything. Default E rated modules only.
The Imperial Cutter has the best max cool rate of any ship, 72.58 BTU's per second. It's also quite heavy meaning it needs big thrusters, a big shield, etc that all draw heavily on the power plant, creating heat that can't be accounted for in my table (at least not without difficulty interpreting reactor draw). The Anaconda and the Type 10 have an 'okay' and identical max cool rate of 67.15, but the Type 10 weighs three times as heavy as the Anaconda, clocking in at about the same mass and reactor draw as the Cutter.
Now comes the interesting part. I took a Dolphin fitted with mostly E rated modules (aside from the power plant) out to Skardee 1 and hovered at 0% thrust, just above the surface on the 'sunny side' of that hell planet. Thermals stabilized at 44% heat capacity:
I did the same with a Type 10. 'Mostly' E rated modules and a short hover above Skardee 1's sunny side. 46% heat capacity:
Now, I really want to know if the Imperial Cutter cools better than Dolphin. Could someone with a Cutter kit it out roughly like this: https://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutter?code=A0pjttFtlydysDf6---------------3m-4j---------.Iw18ZlA=.Aw18ZlA=..EweloBhA2AWEoFMCGBzANokICMF8KERA (don't bother with the fuel scoop if you don't have it) and do the same thing? Hover it without moving just over the surface of Skardee 1, at the daytime side. Post what % the heat capacity levels out.
Lastly, I am capable of running the same test with the Anaconda also. The Anaconda is special due to its weight and somehow still being an L size ship with all the same caveats. At a 3rd of the weight of the Type 10, you can put quite minimal E rated modules in it. It might have the Dolphin and the Imperial Cutter beat, it might not. We really won't know until we test it. https://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda?code=A0petoFolodDsyf5--------------------------44--.Iw18ZXEA.Aw18ZXEA..EweloBhBmSQUwIYHMA28QgIwVyKBQA==
Oh and no engineering anything or the results won't mean anything. Default E rated modules only.
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