DS2 question

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-01 03:43pm

Vrx = Volume of the Reactor
Prx = Power of the Reactor
PD = Power Density (average power desnity, but I can't make the little bar appeared)

Problem is that I'm arriving at some really fucked up values.

I email Saxton again (hopefully he won't be pissed that DS twisted my restatemnt of what he said to slander him) to get clarification.

I'm gonna go work on my BDZ calculator until then

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-06-01 03:45pm

Ender wrote:Vrx = Volume of the Reactor
Prx = Power of the Reactor
PD = Power Density (average power desnity, but I can't make the little bar appeared)

Can you give me the values you are using so I can double-check?

What bar are you speaking of?

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-01 03:54pm

I used the volume of an Acclamtor's Rx based on what you said you scaled it to, and the DS1 based on the reactor diameter being 36% of the overall diameter. Then I used the 1E33 for the DS1 and 2E23 for the Acclamator. Divide to get power density, and apply that to various volumes to try and get power output.

I tried to get DS2 to get more data and thus make it more accurate, but that looks to be a wash.

And the bar is part of the symbol for average power density, like how you use a delta for "change in", you draw a little bar over the symbol to show "average"

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-06-01 04:54pm

Ender wrote:I used the volume of an Acclamtor's Rx based on what you said you scaled it to, and the DS1 based on the reactor diameter being 36% of the overall diameter. Then I used the 1E33 for the DS1 and 2E23 for the Acclamator. Divide to get power density, and apply that to various volumes to try and get power output.

OK, so my stats are then as follows.
Acclamator
Volume: 195432m^3
Output: 2e23w

PowerD: 1e18w per m^3

Death Star(assuming 120km diameter)
Volume: 4.22e13m^3
Output: 2e32w

PowerD: 4e18w per m^3

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-01 04:56pm

The Death Star is 160 km.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-06-01 05:05pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:The Death Star is 160 km.

I was under the impression that it was up in the air, but apparently the 160km figure fits as well and even has explicit backing by the now canonized SW:ICS.

So using the new numbers:
Death Star
Volume: 1e14m^3
Output: 2e32w

PowerD: 2e18w per m^3

Seems the power to size ratio is almost linear.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-01 11:57pm

How did you get that value for tha output of the DS1's reactor? If it can produce 1E38 over 24 hours, it should have an output of 1.157E33 watts.

Which gives it a different PD.

Which makes everything screwy.

Further, while it is almost linera, it still isn't. Which makes it some kind of exponential power growth. That or part or the log-log bit.

I'm really confused by this.