Newcomer / Intro Grid Resistors

New Pilot 2657

New Pilot 2657
Where do I find these things?

According to https://elite dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Grid_Resistors, I need to do one the these

Ship salvage (Military and authority ships)
Signal Sources
Mission reward

Having a difficult time of it, now on 2nd day of searching Signal Sources, and just lost my second ship. Is it just a matter of perseverance?
 

Bob McBobblehead

Bob McBobblehead
If you have any Hybrid Capacitors, Electrochemical Arrays, Polymer Capacitors or Military Supercapacitors, you could trade them for some Grid Resistors at a manufactured material trader. https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Material_Trader
If you can't find a manufactured material trader, then use Inara

or

If you have Horizons, you could go to Dav's Hope and gather materials. Dav's Hope (Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23 A 5)
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
It's luck, yes.
The signal sources are extremely finicky as they are dependent on many things like system state, for example.

It it doesn't work, maybe you should try the other methods. Missions are easy - just every time you are at a station, check the mission board for missions with Grid Resistors as reward. If they're not, just move on, if they are, do the mission.

Another good source might be conflict zones, though they are a bit dangerous. Find a system at war, go there and look for conflict zones. Drop in, move a couple km away from the main pack and choose the side you'll be fighting on. Go in and try to be as sneaky as possible. Try to keep yourself close to your allies and when you see an enemy ship that is heavily focused by them, take a couple of shots and claim the kill. That should net you some materials. If there's more red dots than green ones, bail out.
All ships in conflict zones are "military ships" and if you're crafty, you can kill a lot of them in relatively short period of time which should raise the odds of finding the right thing.

Also - collect everything else as well because
1) you never know when you're going to need it for something else
2) you can always trade the materials you don't need for ones you do at the Material Broker.

edit: yeah what the ninja above me says. :LOL:
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
They only fall of security or military ships, so you either have to shoot cops or collect them in conflict zones. They also very rarely turn up in Encoded Emissions. Getting them that way is a pain in the butt unless you enjoy trawling conflict zones with your scoop open while engineered ships take shots at you.

As mentioned above, go to a mat trader and trade for them. High Density Composite, Phase Alloys, Focus Crystals, Protolight Alloy, and many other mats are 50x more easily to get at any RES site and will trade for heaps of any G1 mat.
 

epoch5

epoch5
metatheurgist said:
They only fall of security or military ships, so you either have to shoot cops or collect them in conflict zones. They also very rarely turn up in Encoded Emissions. Getting them that way is a pain in the butt unless you enjoy trawling conflict zones with your scoop open while engineered ships take shots at you.

As mentioned above, go to a mat trader and trade for them. High Density Composite, Phase Alloys, Focus Crystals, Protolight Alloy, and many other mats are 50x more easily to get at any RES site and will trade for heaps of any G1 mat.
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You cant get them from a mat trader if you cant find a mat trader that has them.
 

epoch5

epoch5

epoch5

epoch5
metatheurgist said:
Mat traders have all mats (of the type they trade) in infinite amount. The number you see is what you have. I dunno why some don't seem to recognise their own inventory. :p
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I dunno either but I have been to a lot of them and none of them have shown grid resistors. However late last night I did find 3 in a USS.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
epoch5 said:
I dunno either but I have been to a lot of them and none of them have shown grid resistors. However late last night I did find 3 in a USS.
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@metatheurgist was trying to tell you how material traders work. They all have plenty of what you want, what show up on the matrix is what you have - you select what you want to trade. Have a play and see if you can work out how to use material traders now.
 

Codger

Codger
epoch5 said:
I dunno either but I have been to a lot of them and none of them have shown grid resistors. However late last night I did find 3 in a USS.
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Yes, you're misunderstanding the user interface for material traders. If you're at the right type of trader (Manufactured, in the case of Grid Resistors), then you can trade stuff you have for them. Read the instructions, they are right there. You have to choose what you want, then choose what you want to trade for it.

Here's a video that shows how it works:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4LEDeoekg


Of course if you weren't at a trader for Manufactured items, then yeah, there won't be any.

You can find a nearby Material trader using this web site --> https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/

Enter the system you're in, do the search, click on Material Trader button, and you get a list of Material traders nearby. Go to a Manufactured trader for Grid Resistors.

Here's a screenshot of some of the results from my current location (Shinrarta Dezhra)

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epoch5

epoch5
Codger said:
Yes, you're misunderstanding the user interface for material traders. If you're at the right type of trader (Manufactured, in the case of Grid Resistors), then you can trade stuff you have for them. Read the instructions, they are right there. You have to choose what you want, then choose what you want to trade for it.

Here's a video that shows how it works:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4LEDeoekg


Of course if you weren't at a trader for Manufactured items, then yeah, there won't be any.

You can find a nearby Material trader using this web site --> https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/

Enter the system you're in, do the search, click on Material Trader button, and you get a list of Material traders nearby. Go to a Manufactured trader for Grid Resistors.

Here's a screenshot of some of the results from my current location (Shinrarta Dezhra)

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Thanks for the help, I will give it a try.
 
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