Atmospheric Thrusters Balance

Small Ship
Small Atmospheric Thruster 701kW, 5336kg lift at 0.9g = 7.61kg per kW
Large Atmospheric Thruster 2400kW, 28700kg lift at 0.9g = 11.96kg per kW

- Large one is %57.2 better at power consumption
- Small one is %67.3 better at thrust area (3x3 vs 1x1)

Large Ship
Small Atmospheric Thruster 2.36MW, 29500kg lift at 0.9g = 12.5kg per kW
Large Atmospheric Thruster 16.36MW, 382000kg lift at 0.9g = 23.3kg per kW

- Large one is %86.4 better at power consumption
- Large one is %43.9 better at thrust area (3x3 vs 1x1)


Small ship atmospheric thursters are a bit different than large ship ones. Will it change in the future?

Edit1: I made this experiment on Mars at x3 inventory settings.
Edit2: I didn't take into account thruster mass above. Both (large and small ship) large atmo thruster has 8 times more mass than small one.

 

Remember there are 3 dimensions small atmo thrusters are 1x1x3 put that into your calculations

 

That is thruster volume. I mentioned thrust area because of thruster damage. You can put 9 small atmo thursters in a pack to the size of large atmo thurster even if large one is 15 times bigger than small one.

 

usually thruster damage isn't a huge concern.