Capital ship power usage

[SomeOldDude]

I made a large capital ship and it uses massive amounts of power 200 large power cells only give me 10 hours of power. is that normal or did I do something wrong?

[Atlana]

10 hours in idle 'mode', or while under full thrust?
are you aware that the 10 hours are REAL (play-)TIME 10 hours?
you may have to add more fuel-tanks

EDIT: if it's for solo-play/multi-play with your buddies only, it's alright...if it's for a dedicated, always on 24/7 server, you have a problem.
but you do can group "power-hungry" components together, and turn them off when not needed (i.e. gravity generators while on a planet)

[Wisp Cat]

Most of the power draw on a CV are the thrusters. If you auto-group them, you will get a thrusters group and you can select that to turn them off when you do not need them.

Constructors also eat some noticable power. And, ok, gravity generators like atlana mentioned.

[Phelbore]

I tend to put thrusters, RCS, gravity gen and warp drive in a group to disable when I'm parked.

[SomeOldDude]

Thanks for the info. I was at idle with everything but 1 gravity gen and oxygen , med station and some grow lights plus 1 advanced const, 4 friges.

[heecks]

With my CV ( not that big compared to some CV peoples did ), take off from planet and coming back only in a test I did this morning took me 12 large fuel pack.

[Phelbore]

Originally posted by heecks:

With my CV ( not that big compared to some CV peoples did ), take off from planet and coming back only in a test I did this morning took me 12 large fuel pack.

How heavy?

[heecks]

Originally posted by feanor_269:

Originally posted by heecks:

With my CV ( not that big compared to some CV peoples did ), take off from planet and coming back only in a test I did this morning took me 12 large fuel pack.

How heavy?

4040 inron ingot
870 silicon ingot
760 copper ingot
720 cobalt ingot
220 sathium ingot
160 neodymium ingot
20 plastic raw material
20 wood planks
10 zascosium ingot
10 erestrum ingot

[crgzero]

How heavy,,,,,, ,,,, ,,,, ,,,,,

[Phelbore]

Originally posted by heecks:

Originally posted by feanor_269:

How heavy?

4040 inron ingot
870 silicon ingot
760 copper ingot
720 cobalt ingot
220 sathium ingot
160 neodymium ingot
20 plastic raw material
20 wood planks
10 zascosium ingot
10 erestrum ingot

Press p while standing on it, look at the tonnage.

[heecks]

Originally posted by feanor_269:

Originally posted by heecks:

4040 inron ingot
870 silicon ingot
760 copper ingot
720 cobalt ingot
220 sathium ingot
160 neodymium ingot
20 plastic raw material
20 wood planks
10 zascosium ingot
10 erestrum ingot

Press p while standing on it, look at the tonnage.

4.95 kt

[H.P. Strangelove]

Originally posted by heecks:

Originally posted by feanor_269:

Press p while standing on it, look at the tonnage.

4.95 kt

That's not a big CV by any means.

Also thrusters still draw power when idle even turned off. It's a bug or a 'feature', although I'm inclined to think its more of the former.

[Phelbore]

Originally posted by heecks:

Originally posted by feanor_269:

Press p while standing on it, look at the tonnage.

4.95 kt

12 large prom packs? That's a bit excessive for that. I bet in atmosphere your power usage is above 70%. Everything above 70% (yellow or red) starts burning fuel. Add a large gen or two and you can probably drop that to 2-3.

[heecks]

Originally posted by H.P. Strangelove:

Originally posted by heecks:

4.95 kt

That's not a big CV by any means.

Also thrusters still draw power when idle even turned off. It's a bug or a 'feature', although I'm inclined to think its more of the former.

Yea like I said, my CV is small. Decided to learn small first :P I shut down thruster / advanced constructor / and stuff I dont need when standing still near planet in atmosphere and use my SV to explore.

[heecks]

Originally posted by feanor_269:

Originally posted by heecks:

4.95 kt

12 large prom packs? That's a bit excessive for that. I bet in atmosphere your power usage is above 70%. Everything above 70% (yellow or red) starts burning fuel. Add a large gen or two and you can probably drop that to 2-3.

I was wondering if it was too much ... I only have 1 large gen but I have room for 2 more.

[H.P. Strangelove]

Originally posted by heecks:

Originally posted by H.P. Strangelove:

That's not a big CV by any means.

Also thrusters still draw power when idle even turned off. It's a bug or a 'feature', although I'm inclined to think its more of the former.

Yea like I said, my CV is small. Decided to learn small first :P I shut down thruster / advanced constructor / and stuff I dont need when standing still near planet in atmosphere and use my SV to explore.

Also, what kind of thrusters?

In terms of thrust / power consumption, directionals are still superior to normal and large. You don't really need large ones for a 5 kt CV. Since there is no thruster damage mechanic right now, stacking directionals to occupy the same grid as a large (all facing one direction) will cut power consumption in half without too much loss on acceleration.

Even so, you need to keep power usage from redlining. Above 70% eats fuel like crazy. Always check planetside op time. Toss a gen or two extra until you're operating comfortably at 50-60% full thrust in atmosphere.