Newcomer / Intro Overheating blew up my ship

dat789bb · Feb 28, 2015

Ship: Sidewinder

I exchanged and bought 2x bin Refineries for a Shield Generator, and bought pulse lasers. Then I purchased a power generator.
Satisfied, I launched and immediately after leaving the launch pad, the temperature gauge was already reading 120 celsius and increasing. As I throttled up to leave the star port, the temperature continued to rise and it reached 320 celsius before smokes spewing out and windshield (whatever you call it) starts to crack..... KA-BOOM! A supernova like explosion!

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I had no idea what happened! Anyone?

Zelos1983 · Feb 28, 2015

silent running engaged?

dat789bb · Feb 28, 2015

Nope. Didn't know where the key was to that on my keyboard anyway.

Aleksej · Feb 28, 2015

dat789bb said:
Nope. Didn't know where the key was to that on my keyboard anyway.

This actually means that you could have engaged silent running and did not even notice that. The default key is Del.

Dommarraa · Feb 28, 2015

Silent running is the only one I can think of. There Are random ship explosions very rarely (raise a ticket and it will be investigated) but they are not heat related

Tripwire1969 · Feb 28, 2015

If your shield is no rated for the mass of your ship will that cause it to overheat?

Dommarraa · Feb 28, 2015

Nope. I frequently run underpowered Shields on my trading ships

Masta Squidge · Mar 1, 2015

Dommarraa said:
Nope. I frequently run underpowered Shields on my trading ships

This.

Also its not Celsius, it's Percent.

And it sounds like you had silent running on to me.

MACMAN86 · Mar 1, 2015

There have been times when I launch that the ship moves before I engage any thrusters using just k/b. There maybe a leak of commands during docking or a bad contact in your keyboard. Needs cleaning perhaps.

badtrip · Mar 1, 2015

Definately silent running on!

When you go with silent running, to cool you need to use heatsinks...

dat789bb · Mar 1, 2015

badtrip said:
Definately silent running on!

When you go with silent running, to cool you need to use heatsinks...

What you are saying is that it is generally recommended to use silent /stealth only when your ship is equipped with heat seeking missiles? Scratch that, heatsinks... What are they? What's the default key for it?

Strange Orange · Mar 1, 2015

dat789bb said:
What you are saying is that it is generally recommended to use silent /stealth only when your ship is equipped with heat seeking missiles? Scratch that, heatsinks... What are they? What's the default key for it?

Heatsinks are a completely separate module for which your ship must be outfitted and supplied.