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| Heat Sink
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| Type:
| Inner Sphere
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| Weight:
| ? ton(s)
|
Resource requirements
| Resource
| #
|
| Antimony:
| 0
|
| Bauxite:
| 0
|
| Beryllium:
| 0
|
| Chromium:
| 0
|
| Cobalt:
| 0
|
| Copper:
| 0
|
| Germanium:
| 0
|
| Gold:
| 0
|
| Hydrogen:
| 0
|
| Iron:
| 0
|
| Lead:
| 0
|
| Lithium:
| 0
|
| Manganese:
| 0
|
| Molybdenum:
| 0
|
| Nickel:
| 0
|
| Nitrogen:
| 0
|
| Organics:
| 0
|
| Plastics:
| 0
|
| Platinum:
| 0
|
| Precious Gems:
| 0
|
| Rare Earth Elements:
| 0
|
| Silicon:
| 0
|
| Silver:
| 0
|
| Sulfur:
| 0
|
| Titanium:
| 0
|
| Tungsten:
| 0
|
| Uranium:
| 0
|
| Vanadium:
| 0
|
| Water:
| 0
|
| Zinc:
| 0
|
|
| Blueprint production cost:
| ? RP
|
| Design research level:
| 6
|
| RP required:
| 1,000,000
|
| BP required:
| ?
|
The waste heat generated by battlefield engines and the weapons they empower made heat management a first priority as soon as fusion power and energy weapons became commonplace. The insulated nature of combat armor particularly on BattleMechs and aerospace fighters meant that such heat typically became trapped within the machine, endangering crews and heat sensitive components. Heat sinks were the solution. Essentially a series of heat pumps and coolant lines run through a Mech, fighter or other unit, these systems collect heat from coolant jackets and coolant lines in heat-generating equipment, designed to shunt heat away from vital components and out through baffles in the units protective armor skin. Standard heat sinks dissipate 1 point of heat per turn; double heat sinks dissipate 2 points of heat per turn. Because they dissipate heat at twice the rate of standard heat sinks, double heat sinks cool a Battlemech much more efficiently. Though they weigh the same as standard heat sinks, the double versions are considerably bulkier, taking up extra space aboard a 'Mech. The Clan version of the double heat sink takes up twice the room of standard sinks, while the Inner Sphere model is three times as bulky. Single and double heat sinks cannot be mixed in any unit. Vehicles cannot carry double heat sinks. (excerpt taken from the Classic Battletech TechManual, See "http://www.fanpro.com/cms/fp/" for more info.)
