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Way of measuring how much water/gas is in reservoir.


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1 hour ago, Neotuck said:

the only way I see you can automate it is by having the pipes loop at the input with a pipe element sensor

the sensor would only go off when the reservoir is 100% full

Or timing. 10kg/sec so 40 sec is full reservoir ( is 400kg isn't it?)

12 hours ago, Gidesen said:

Is there way to measure if reservoir % fillage? (For automation)

Sort of. If you have a shut off at both the input and the output. Then you could shut off the input and divert the output across an element sensor that goes to another reservoir. The longer the element sensor stays on the more filled the reservoir being siphoned was. By doing this continuously between two reservoirs you could have a good estimate on how much is available in the two reservoir system at any time. You may need a third reservoir to function as a buffer though.

6 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

Isn`t liquid reservoir 5000kg? I`m sure gas are 150 kg.

I think your right, if I remember my Septic System V3 would fill a reservoir for 200s at a time.  With 10kg/s flow that's 2000kg and that wasn't even half full!

2 hours ago, Xuhybrid said:

If i need to know when the reservoir is full, i put a pipe element sensor right before the entrance and a filter gate set to like 8 seconds. This way if there's a liquid in the pipe for more than 8 seconds, it's full.

How do you get around the sensor being tripped 8 seconds after you begin filling the tank?

8 hours ago, Nitroturtle said:

How do you get around the sensor being tripped 8 seconds after you begin filling the tank?

All of the systems that i don't want to clog up are systems without a constant throughput. For example, hydrogen from an electrolyzer or an aquatuner output(pre super-coolant).

you can detect "full" state with 2 bridges and a pipe element sensor. No need for complex logic. If the substance has 2 ways to go, "A" with priority over "B" you can detect substance in "B" it will always mean the reservoir is full and the substance backed up to the junction.

1 hour ago, MorsDux said:

you can detect "full" state with 2 bridges and a pipe element sensor. No need for complex logic. If the substance has 2 ways to go, "A" with priority over "B" you can detect substance in "B" it will always mean the reservoir is full and the substance backed up to the junction.

That is smart. Using bridge as element sensor. Only thing is that slave output (B) needs to go somewhere

2 hours ago, MorsDux said:

you can detect "full" state with 2 bridges and a pipe element sensor. No need for complex logic. If the substance has 2 ways to go, "A" with priority over "B" you can detect substance in "B" it will always mean the reservoir is full and the substance backed up to the junction.

That's a cool idea. I ran into that as an issue before but i realise now that it was a solution in disguise.

As others have mentioned, with creative use of the pipe element  sensor and bridges, you make a detector for when a tank is full.  If you want to refine the idea a bit further, you can make a tank storage array that can approximate the automation output you might set on a smart battery using several tanks.

 

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With the above setup, the top tank will always fill first and try to dump it's contents, then the tank below will start to fill and dump it's contents and etc.  With the way the piping is setup, the tank below stops the tank above from dumping it's contents, unless the output pipe doesn't have full 1KG packets through it.  So, the storage array only empties from the bottom tank up thus, with using the element pipe sensors on the output of each tank, lets you sense how full the array is.  In this example, it be for 25% 50% and 75% full.

14 hours ago, The Flying Fox said:

As others have mentioned, with creative use of the pipe element  sensor and bridges, you make a detector for when a tank is full.  If you want to refine the idea a bit further, you can make a tank storage array that can approximate the automation output you might set on a smart battery using several tanks.

 

StorageArray1.thumb.jpg.b2e006f4065e6d542ec737731e67f8d8.jpgStorageArray2.thumb.jpg.2b382973758b404ac0853c238af22e7b.jpg

 

With the above setup, the top tank will always fill first and try to dump it's contents, then the tank below will start to fill and dump it's contents and etc.  With the way the piping is setup, the tank below stops the tank above from dumping it's contents, unless the output pipe doesn't have full 1KG packets through it.  So, the storage array only empties from the bottom tank up thus, with using the element pipe sensors on the output of each tank, lets you sense how full the array is.  In this example, it be for 25% 50% and 75% full.

very nice solution! the ability to set capacity (as with compactors) for reservoirs would make this perfect.

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