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Heat sinks are most commonly used in connection with [[Silent Running]] or with larger ships dumping excess heat when making multiple hyperspace jumps. Deploying a heat sink when weapons systems are overheated will also speed up the cool down process. The heat sink launchers are installed on a ship's Utility Mount and you can install more than one providing your ship has additional Utility Mounts to install them in. Each heat sink has a capacity of 3 sinks and each sink can hold approx 90-100% of the ship's maximum heat capacity. Heat sinks can be launched via a dedicated key binding or launched via the fire button of the fire group the launcher is assigned to. Hardpoints do not need to be deployed to launch a heat sink. | Heat sinks are most commonly used in connection with [[Silent Running]] or with larger ships dumping excess heat when making multiple hyperspace jumps. Deploying a heat sink when weapons systems are overheated will also speed up the cool down process. The heat sink launchers are installed on a ship's Utility Mount and you can install more than one providing your ship has additional Utility Mounts to install them in. Each heat sink has a capacity of 3 sinks and each sink can hold approx 90-100% of the ship's maximum heat capacity. Heat sinks can be launched via a dedicated key binding or launched via the fire button of the fire group the launcher is assigned to. Hardpoints do not need to be deployed to launch a heat sink. | ||
Heat sinks are not functional outside of normal space and cannot be used while in Supercruise. | |||
<s>Note that the key bound to "launch heat sink" does not always launch a sink while in Super Cruise. To work around this, use a fire button instead (assign it to a fire group before entering supercruise select the fire group prior to entering supercruise).</s> | <s>Note that the key bound to "launch heat sink" does not always launch a sink while in Super Cruise. To work around this, use a fire button instead (assign it to a fire group before entering supercruise select the fire group prior to entering supercruise).</s> | ||