Basic Electrics
Sterling Systems' batteries are quite overpowered. They assume that by the time kerbal society can send any interstellar crewed vessel they have done quite well to develop a battery chemistry with currently unreal specific energy and respectable specific power. The point of this battery suite is to defeat the need to either spam stock-ish flat battery platters or place procedural batteries.
They come in 8 sizes in ascending order: Luggage, KIS Cube, 1.25m, Mk2, 2.5m, 3.75m, 5m. Except for the Luggage and Cube they have height variants, allowing even more capacity.
Examples of capacity:
| Item | Profile | Mass | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Super Battery | Luggage | 0.019 t | 1920 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | Cube | 0.084 t | 8440 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | 1.25m | 0.481 t | 48080 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | Mk2 | 0.74 t | 74000 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | 2.5m | 2.864 t | 286400 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | 3.75m | 9.114 t | 911400 EC |
| Sterling Super Battery | 5m | 20.949 t | 2094900 EC |
| Stock Z-100 | srf | 0.005 t | 100 EC |
| Stock Z-200 | 0.625m | 0.01 t | 200 EC |
| Stock Z-1k | 1.25m | 0.05 t | 1000 EC |
| Stock Z-4K | 2.5m | 0.2 t | 4000 EC |
Sterling Systems provides these as a solution to intermediate (and somewhat exotic) RTG and for the same use cases as with the advanced RTGs and the KerboPower reactor inthe Near Future Electrical mod. These are respectively, a Subcritical Multiplier and a KRUSTY. Both are less than 1.25m wide and are for very small applications.
| Item | Profile | Dry Mass | Power | Stoppable¹ | Fueled² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling SCM | 0.625m | 1.1 t | 27 EC/s | No | Yes |
| Sterling KLUSTR | 1.15m³ | 1.44 t | 13.5 EC/s | Yes | Yes |
| Stock RTG | < 0.625m | 0.08 t | 0.75 EC/s | No | No |
- [1] If no, it uses the generator module like the stock RTG.
- [2] Does it hold and require a resource in order to provide power?
- [3] Allows it to fit inside a fairing or service bay without clipping and Z-fighting with it.