Difference between revisions of "Talk:Liquid fuel"
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Nevermind, I was unable to edit this. Someone with more experience, please edit everything on the wiki to give accurate densities of fuel as per unit not per liter or per meter cubed. For example, all Rockomaxx or FL-T tanks store slightly over 800 kg of fuel per meter cubed, not 5000 kg as various pages on this wiki mention. The other types of tanks (ROUND-8 Toroidal, Oscar-B, all jet tanks) store at even lower densities. As proof, consider that the external volume of an X-64 Orange tank is slightly over 39,000 liters and the tank stores 32 tonnes of fuel. [[User:PDS314|PDS314]] ([[User talk:PDS314|talk]]) 14:37, 11 December 2013 (CST) | Nevermind, I was unable to edit this. Someone with more experience, please edit everything on the wiki to give accurate densities of fuel as per unit not per liter or per meter cubed. For example, all Rockomaxx or FL-T tanks store slightly over 800 kg of fuel per meter cubed, not 5000 kg as various pages on this wiki mention. The other types of tanks (ROUND-8 Toroidal, Oscar-B, all jet tanks) store at even lower densities. As proof, consider that the external volume of an X-64 Orange tank is slightly over 39,000 liters and the tank stores 32 tonnes of fuel. [[User:PDS314|PDS314]] ([[User talk:PDS314|talk]]) 14:37, 11 December 2013 (CST) | ||
| + | :As noted in the infobox (when you hover over the liter unit) it asumes that 1 liter == 1 unit. As ingame the unit liter never appears we can be sure in what unit they measure it. It can also be that 1 liter isn't defined as 1 dm³ in the KSP universe. Instead of applying some conversion, I would suggest dropping the unit and simply use the ingame unit like with [[xenon gas]]. | ||
| + | :Using another value might irritate others. So when ingame a tank has a “capacity” of 1000 but here in the wiki it shows as 500 l (I don't know the conversion factor so this is only an example) others might wonder which value is correct. Also all formulas need to be updated that 1 l ≠ 1 unit and that the formulas work with units instead of liters. — [[User:XZise|xZise]] <small>[[[User talk:XZise|talk]]]</small> 16:10, 11 December 2013 (CST) | ||
Revision as of 22:10, 11 December 2013
Changing liters to units because densities are inaccurate to volume of containers. PDS314 (talk) 14:27, 11 December 2013 (CST)
Nevermind, I was unable to edit this. Someone with more experience, please edit everything on the wiki to give accurate densities of fuel as per unit not per liter or per meter cubed. For example, all Rockomaxx or FL-T tanks store slightly over 800 kg of fuel per meter cubed, not 5000 kg as various pages on this wiki mention. The other types of tanks (ROUND-8 Toroidal, Oscar-B, all jet tanks) store at even lower densities. As proof, consider that the external volume of an X-64 Orange tank is slightly over 39,000 liters and the tank stores 32 tonnes of fuel. PDS314 (talk) 14:37, 11 December 2013 (CST)
- As noted in the infobox (when you hover over the liter unit) it asumes that 1 liter == 1 unit. As ingame the unit liter never appears we can be sure in what unit they measure it. It can also be that 1 liter isn't defined as 1 dm³ in the KSP universe. Instead of applying some conversion, I would suggest dropping the unit and simply use the ingame unit like with xenon gas.
- Using another value might irritate others. So when ingame a tank has a “capacity” of 1000 but here in the wiki it shows as 500 l (I don't know the conversion factor so this is only an example) others might wonder which value is correct. Also all formulas need to be updated that 1 l ≠ 1 unit and that the formulas work with units instead of liters. — xZise [talk] 16:10, 11 December 2013 (CST)
