| From: | "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Engine Ideas |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Feb 93 23:29:04 CET |
Good ideas. Thanks for bring them up. A little fine tuning and they should
be useable. As for engine size, I think they'll need to be a little smaller.
Maybe 75 kg/Unit Cruising speed per NERP. A chart of NERPS to move at speed X
would look like this:
Car Size: NERPS of Engine to Cruise at:
Type NERPS Weight 25 30 40 60 70 80
--------- ----- ------ ----------------------------
Mini 800 400 133 160 213 320 373 427
Small 1400 700 233 280 373 560 653 747
Medium 2000 1000 333 400 533 800 933 1067
Large 2800 1400 467 560 747 1120 1306 1494
Ex. Large 3800 1900 633 760 1013 1520 1773 2027
Of course this chart has some design flaws, mostly the fact that for high
cruising speeds the engines are too big, but some work can even that out. Maybe
engines get a better NERP to power rating as they get larger. And of course
when making an Engine chart we will have to do something like make engines for
say only NERPS that are divisible by 10.
What do you guys think?
See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
