Yet another Floodlight/Lightning Arrester Tower for Kerbal Space Program & Kerbal Konstructs
- Originally created by forum user Divico.
- Updated for KSP v1.8.0+ by Stone Blue.
- Adds 3 Floodlight Towers to the KSC Launchpad. (Requires Kerbal Konstructs MOD)
Stone Blue's KSCFLT01 | This Mod's KSCFLT02 |
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Using the mesh file so generously supplied by Stone Blue, I have remixed yet another version of the lightning arrester / floodlight tower for the launch pad as KSC.
Once installed alongside Kerbal Konstructs (and it's dependencies) it will create 3 towers around the launch pad with automatic dusk/dawn operation (originally added by Stone Blue). Each tower can also be manually toggled (with satisfying sound effects) by clicking on the tower it's self.
It remains somewhat over-sized (my placements, like Stone Blue's, scales the towers to 0.7 of their original size), but I did make the following alterations:
- Resized / Re-meshed the lamp panel border.
- Added "struts" to support the lamp panel.
- Reduced range and altered power to provide a lower light level more in line with the lighting provided by the built in water tower spotlight1.
- Added sound effect (powered by built in KK functionality)
- Corrected delay in tower being "ready" to be clicked again after being clicked - tower can not be clicked again as soon as the light is fully on or off.
- Altered / Re-skinned to have a white/gray coloring and detailed extinguished lamps.
In 2009, LC-39B saw the installation of three nearly 600' tall towers as part of a new "Lightning Protection System" at the historic launch pad. Previous uses for Apollo and the Space Shuttle did not have such comprehensive protection. These towers, meant to be a more attractive target for "Zeus", are by necessity significantly taller than the launch vehicles they protect. They are painted a light gray color from top to bottom and hold cables aloft to harmlessly redirect electrical discharges to the ground and away from launch vehicles. | |
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Further Reading @ NASA.gov | https://www.nasa.gov/feature/lightning-towers-stand-tall-at-nasa-kennedy-s-launch-pad-39b |