Downsizing your power plant: Any downsides?
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Capacitor capacity and recharge all comes down to your power distributor. Your power plant instead determines how many toys you can operate at the same time.
Figured as much, thanks. Whoops, used capacitor instead of power distributor. Numpty!
Incorrect. The closer you are to 100%, the hotter your ship runs. If you add a better power plant that leaves you running at 60% power usage, you'll run MUCH MUCH cooler.
Source: I play stealthy
unless they have suddenly changed something with power plant heat in the last week, the better the grade of plant, the lower your overall running temp is...
In my viper I had it running at 126% (98% with weapons retracted), it made little difference to heat levels, my heat was rock solid at 40 - 43% running heat levels... and only climbed realistically in battle when I was firing high thermal load weapons constantly...
In my type 6 I had A grade max class reactor that would fit, and I was running below 40's and I attribute SOME of the additional heat saving to not being quite so close to 100% power draw with weapons retracted but not all... the most significant heat reduction I was seeing was in the grade of reactor
I don't know about same power levels, but I'd really like to know if bigger plants draw more fuel from the Auxilary Reservoir? I mean, if I cram the engine of a Porsche Boxster into a Mini Hillman, I expect a seriously faster car, if it doesn't shake apart, but I definitely also expect it to be thirstier.
Can I just put the the biggest, most efficient plant in my Viper, and not worry about excessive fuel drain?
And sorry to resurrect this thread, but I was looking for answers on Google...
Power USAGE makes a difference in heat, as does power plant grade - I always run A rated for that reason in every ship. Power PRODUCTION does not however - if you can get away with a smaller A grade power plant, do so. Although sometimes a larger power plant that is low emission is better still.
If you want to see how much difference power usage makes, get in a maxed out cutter and try to scoop. Then disable power hungry stuff like shield boosters and try again - it's rather remarkable.
If you want to see how much difference power usage makes, get in a maxed out cutter and try to scoop. Then disable power hungry stuff like shield boosters and try again - it's rather remarkable.
Hmmmm. That I don't know the answer to. The ship displays fuel use per hour while in supercruise so I guess you could try and see if it changes?
Nope, doesn't seem to.
I have an 8A PP in my Corvette and it uses 2.88 fuels per hour.
I stuck an 8D PP in it, instead, and that also uses 2.88 fph.
FWIW, I took the 8D PP to get it overcharged and see if it could provide enough juice to run my 'vette and help with the jump range.
It does actually do the job but it makes fuel-scooping a bit of a drama due to the fast heat build-up.
And if you check your facts even further you will note that there is basically no difference in efficiency at 50% and 80% - unless you have some crappy cheap PSU.
M'K10 is correct.
