![]() ![]() Will pulling air through a radiator or heatsink actually cool the air? I tried that but it doesn't seem to work since radiators and heatsinks are for liquids. Originally posted by Dragon:Another thing I was wondering is whether there is a way to cool air before running it through a HE. I haven't tested these recently, but it might be worthwhile to try if you have the space for one. Heat Exchangers: According to more recent posts, it appears that these are slightly better than similarly sized radiators. Needs at least one pump for the air side (probably one on each side for a total of 4 per), too, and each Air-Liquid HX needs its own pump set and air inlet/outlet blocks. I'm told these work better when not in an enclosed space, but haven't tested it.Īir-Liquid: Considerably less powerful (for space required) than radiators but smaller required size. Radiators: Make sure these are powered on (you should see the fan spinning). Loading the engines does increase heat generation, but the RPS reduction from engine load reduces it even more. Keep your RPS lower, and avoid high RPS idling. Do not use tanks because they mess with flow rate. Stick a pump on both sides of the cooling block. General: Run cooling blocks in parallel, not series. I hope some of this helps, but take it with a grain of salt since I haven't run into any cooling issues myself in a while when using any diesel or jet engines.Ĭooling, from my testing, requires a very specific setup: The best way to do this is obviously with gearboxes that are set to reduce the engine's RPS but increase the propellers' RPS. Try keeping your engines running under 30-20 RPS. Running your engines at a high RPS can also be a cause for overheating. This may seem obvious, but you can also save space by reducing the number of pipes between your coolant manifolds and your radiators, and the same could be said for everything else like fuel, air, and exhaust manifolds, so that might help save a bit more space for extra radiators. I'm not entirely sure, but I think using more cooling manifolds to separate the radiators into different pipelines should fix any flow rate issues that could affect your cooling, but it might not solve the problem and it might not work that way anymore (last I checked was a couple standard updates ago). Two shouldn't affect cooling rate by much, but after three radiators on the same line you'll get very little in return for the wasted space.Īir-Liquid exchangers are alright, but you need two and a bit of the small ones to match just one small radiator, so unless you can fit them into a smaller area that 3x3x1 I wouldn't recommend switching. Something to note is that having multiple radiators along the same pipeline will cause the flow rate to lower for each radiator. ![]()
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