What size mining laser on Asp Explorer?

BarbusMaximus

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I've almost finished modding my Asp Ex for my first serious trip into the black and I'd like to equip a mining laser for emergency materials. Not sure whether to use a small or medium mining laser? Surprisingly they both weigh the same, but the small laser uses half the power and I'm only running a 2A Power Plant with quite a few things disabled already.

For this reason and because I'll be limited by how fast I can manually pick up mined materials rather than how fast I can blast them out of an asteroid, I'm thinking I should equip a single small laser rather than the medium?

Inara shows no light weight mod for mining lasers:mad: Is there no way you can apply a lightweight mod made for beams or other weapon lasers to a mining laser?
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
I would take the medium sized one and disable other modules, but there's really nothing in it.
I would add that I view it as a luxury for ships which can afford the space and mass; I wouldn't fit a mining laser onto a small explorer just on the rarest off-chance that things went all Macedonica. A ship like a 'Conda can afford the mass without blinking, so there's no reason not to fit it as a utility tool, but it's not something I'd think was a good idea to stick on an Adder or Diamondback.
 
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