5 replies to this topic

[Valrock]

Yes, I know they have them, but after a few days of driving my new shiny 3F and trying a million different builds, i keep finding myself running out of crit slots to fit double heat sinks. I've been running a STD 300, which has 10 internal +2, and I'm worried that switching to single heat sinks would make me lose more cooling efficiency from the 12 engine sinks than I would gain.

What do you guys run in your assaults? Are single's the better way to go?

Thanks

Val.


Also, if you were wondering, no endo or FF.

[John MatriX82]

Usually stalkers can't go beyond 23-24 DHS (often sporting 21 or 22), they mostly neither require ENDO.

Learn to create builds to minimize crit waste and as you said, go with 300 STD to add that extra DHS; otherwise they can do fine with 275/280's as well.

Use http://mwo.smurfy-net.de/ to experiment, and you'll soon realize that SHS ain't the way to go.

[Regrets]

Maybe if you run <250xl and like 3 PPC then SHS will be better, but in 99% of stalker builds it isn't worth it.

4PPC SHS 250xl 20% cooling
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...ebbbc0868fcecbe
4PPC DHS 250std 23% cooling
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...c7f98f70d054efe
3PPC SHS 250xl 33% cooling
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...f16a2267db72b20
3PPC DHS 300std 34% cooling (1.5 tons left for small lasers but left them off so the cooling would be equivalent)
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...3e60080ad98507c

[TheCrazySteve]

Was kind of curious so I did some quick excel work, working on the assumption of having the full 10 double strength heat sinks and no room to put additional 1.4 strength double heat sinks in the engine (only the first 10 are doubled, additional ones placed in the engine only give 1.4). In quick summary, if your using any sort of build that produces heat never go single heat sinks.

You will need over 21 single heat sinks outside the engine (31 total) to finally outperform double heat sinks taking up the same amount of slots, which at this point would be 7 double heat sinks outside the engine (17 total).

After that point you will be saving crit space, but you are already down 14 tons, and will continue to make smaller heat gains per ton, but you will also start to have a slightly increasing amount of crit space.

This also fails to factor in the increased heat threshold that double heat sinks give you.

Edited by TheCrazySteve, 16 March 2013 - 05:17 AM.

[NRP]

Stalkers run hot. That's just the way it is. I believe DHS will give you the best heat dissipation performance in most cases.

[Stingz]

The 10 engine DHS is full 2.0(20 SHS) when engine is 250+, SHS is going to be useless.

The Stalker was built to run hot, don't worry about 30-40% heat efficiency, just watch the trigger.