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Convert-O-Tron 125
Converter by Kerbodyne
Radial size		Small
Cost	(total)	1 000.00
Mass	(total)	1.250 t
Drag		0.2
Max. Temp.		2000 K
Impact Tolerance		7 m/s
Research		Advanced Science Tech
Unlock cost		4 000
Since version		1.0.5
Part configuration		MiniISRU.cfg
Conversion		Liquid fuel + Oxidizer
Inputs
Ore		2.5 /s
Electric charge		30 ⚡/s
Outputs
Liquid fuel		0.225 /s
Oxidizer		0.275 /s
Conversion		Liquid fuel
Inputs
Ore		2.25 /s
Electric charge		30 ⚡/s
Output
Liquid fuel		0.45 /s
Conversion		Oxidizer
Inputs
Ore		2.75 /s
Electric charge		30 ⚡/s
Output
Oxidizer		0.55 /s
Conversion		Monopropellant
Inputs
Ore		2.5 /s
Electric charge		30 ⚡/s
Output
Monopropellant		0.5 /s
Optimum Temp		1000 K
Shutdown Temp		1500 K
Max Cooling		75 kW
Packed volume		None

The Convert-O-Tron 125 is a converter, the miniature version of the Convert-O-Tron 250.

Usage

The Convert-O-Tron 125 can convert ore and electricity into liquid fuel, oxidizer, or monopropellant. The former two can be automatically be generated in the 9:11 ratio used in chemical engines or produced individually. Each conversion recipe can be run at the same time, adding additional energy and ore consumption, and fuel and heat production, for each running recipe in total. Heat is always produced at same amount per running recipe, all other resource rates are affected by both engineer staffing and thermal efficiency. The overall resource ratios remains constant for all operating conditions, except for heat production.

Operating the Convert-O-Tron 125 on the surface of a planet or moon requires much less careful planning and allows for more flexible vehicle design. A craft used to shuttle fuel to orbit can potentially burn part of its payload to complete rendezvous or transfer unused fuel reserves as part of the payload, and need only bring the fuel necessary for landing down to the surface. By contrast, an ore carrier must carry fuel for both landing and takeoff to the surface, cannot use its payload as emergency reserves, and needs to have its fuel to payload ratios adjusted to operate in different gravity wells or make rendezvous in different orbits efficiently.

Surface installations require either a rover with docking ports to ferry the fuel between the converter and the landed fuel transport craft or more difficult direct docking. Ore carriers only need to bring drills down to the surface, and can take off directly after their tanks are full.

Alternatively, an asteroid with a docked Convert-O-Tron 125 can also be used as a refueling station, and can be more efficient due to its lack of a gravity well and the ability to maneuver it into a convenient orbit.

Efficiency

The conversion rate of this module is far less efficient than that of the bigger Convert-O-Tron 250.

• Especially note that it requires 100kW of cooling per recipe to maintain its operating temperature, but the unit is strictly limited to 50kW of passive cooling, maximum. This means the unit will always overheat unless an active TCS is used to remove additional heat. The intended use is to pulse the conversion operations, rather than leave it running for extended periods.
• This converter discards 90% of the ore it processes; only converting 10% of the ore into fuel.

Engineers improve the overall rate of production by 20% per maximum engineer level, but they do not improve the efficiency of the conversion as stated by the description. The base rate is only 5% of listed rate with no engineer, with maximum rate of 125% with level 5 engineer. Additional engineers provide no benefit, only the highest level applies, for an unlimited number of on board convert-o-trons.

Product description

Changes

1.0.5

• Initial release