Where is the fuel scoop?

Rebel RDX

Rebel RDX
I can see the hard points, the landing gear, the utility mounts, the cargo scoop but I cannot work out where the fuel scoop is on any ship?

Any ideas how they work? Does the ship 'absorb' the energy somehow?
 

White Shark

White Shark
I too have often wondered this! On several scoops, I've moved my camera about the ship to see if I can see anything visible, but I have not located it.
 

Divine Cerinian

Divine Cerinian
The fuel scoop uses the vents for the reverse thrusters to do the scooping. The improved grades and ratings just determine how good it is at catching the hydrogen it needs from the coronasphere*.

*my personal , your mileage may vary
 
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CMDR Nef

CMDR Nef
Divine Cerinian said:
The fuel scoop uses the vents for the reverse thrusters to do the scooping. The improved grades and ratings just determine how good it is at catching the hydrogen it needs from the coronasphere*.

*my personal , your mileage may vary
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Good enough headcannon for me! Makes sense enough. The thrusters don't have a use while the FSD is going, and I'm sure the engineers would do something like this. Good designs often have redunancies and mutliple functions for various parts to save space and resources. I could see the breaking thrusters being used as intakes for hydrogen as well. Seems resonable enough. Taking our modern air intake engine, and making it into a single stage to orbit multi-role engine in the future isn't t hat far fetched. We're already doing suff like that ourselves with modern engines.
 

Codger

Codger
Fuel scoops are actually very tiny, because it's more efficient that way, and limits what would otherwise be a torrent of incoming fuel. So they are really not that visible.

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SCSkunk

SCSkunk
Fly near a star, begin scooping and throttle down (make sure temperature is stabilized). Hold B and Right on D-Pad for Debug Camera. Circle your ship and you will see part of the hull retracts and strips of glowing cells will be visible. This/these is/are the Fuel Scoop(s). It is located in different places, depending on the ship model. It is only visible while actively fuel scooping.
 
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MashdTaytuz

MashdTaytuz
SCSkunk said:
Fly near a star, begin scooping and throttle down (make sure temperature is stabilized). Hold B and Right on D-Pad for Debug Camera. Circle your ship and you will see part of the hull retracts and strips of glowing cells will be visible. These is the Fuel Scoop. It is located in different places, depending on the ship model. It is only visible while actively fuel scooping.
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For the Python, the fuel scoop are the slots that you'll see in behind the large hardpoints. Skunk is correct. If you go into the debug camera you'll see them if you pan around the ships while scooping. If you get into the debug camera as you're flying away from the star you were scooping you can watch them closing.
 

Thunderguts

Thunderguts
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Fuel scoop off

The fuel scoop is like vents that open that's why you overheat easily whilst it's scooping you ship is open to the heat outside!
 
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GoldenSilver484

GoldenSilver484
Those are just the heat vents, they open up whenever you reach ~50% heat.

I think the fuel scoop works is by producing a magnetic field that catches hydrogen and funnels it into your cargo hatch, where it then is transferred to your fuel tank, a literal scoop of fuel. A higher class and grade produces a larger field, hence more fuel scooped.

Didn't the old Elites have an upgrade for the cargo hatch that turned it into a fuel scoop too?
 
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