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The Chill Pill 500: Effective near-powerless heat deletion


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Say hello to the Chill Pill 500. By harnessing the power of un-powered fridges, non-space age materials, and 500kg of coal (500 vitamin chews), you too can cool a single aquatuner at full load for nearly zero power.

Cycle 1551 temps: (fluctuates between 168-171)

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Heat load for aquatuner. Previously 85c, I heated it up to 250c at cycle 1554 to demonstrate/eliminate any cooling from ceramic insulated pipe.

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Cycle 1560 temps:

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Rail system:

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Power:

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Automation: 140 Buffer, 95 Filter, 5 Filter (delays rail delivery until door closes) Automation signal on un-powered fridge is inactive; wire can be routed differently.

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Vitamins being delivered into un-powered fridge (average 20-30c instantly)

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Vitamins on their way back to the fridges after heating:

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Insulated tiles and fridge are ceramic, metal tiles and temp shift plates are copper. All other equipment is steel.

Please use responsibly.

 

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21 minutes ago, Red Shark said:

I'm afraid I don't follow - what do unpowered fridges do that makes this actually cool? I'm assuming the vitamins are chosen because they don't spoil, but presumably any non-spoily food would work?

Unpowered fridges immediately resets the temperature off everything you put in it. The only difference between a powered and an unpowered fridge is the ability to use the automation output.

Vitamins are probably used due to them being the cheapest way to get the 500kg mass. You could use food as well, doesn't matter. The heat capacity of food and medicine is the same. 

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58 minutes ago, Red Shark said:

I'm assuming the vitamins are chosen because they don't spoil, but presumably any non-spoily food would work?

The only non spoily foods are nosh beans and berry sludge. However, nosh beans cannot be put in a fridge (not sure if this is a bug or not).  The vitamin chews are definitely much simpler to mass produce right off the bat than berry sludge. 

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If the fridge is plugged in, there seems to be some weirdness to the way the items chill after removing from the fridge. The first 80kg will be dropped to the 20ish c and get a little lower, but there will be 20kg of the items that will slowly continue to drop to 4c, but will not exchange heat or do so at an extremely slow rate. that amounts to 100kg of wasted cooling. With the fridge turned off, this does not occur.

I suppose more foods or other items could be used if the petroleum acts as sterile, maybe another fluid could be used. Either way, vitamin chews are very cheap and easy and the end result is all the same. Plus, couldn't resist calling it the chill pill.

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I hardly think anyone would have expected me to pass up an opportunity to min-max a new exploit to hell and back. So here it is.

You only really need 200 vitamin chews and 2 fridges to keep up with an aquatuner cooling water or polluted water as long as you accept an operating temperature very close to the maximum of some of the parts within. However, I could not find room enough for a temperature controlled version with two fridges so I made one with 3. Expand to 4 if you're cooling super coolant.

There was also no reason to keep the aquatuner and the fridge cooler in separate compartments so I just joined them up to make it as compact as possible.

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Wiring is extremely simple.

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Same goes for plumbing

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Conveyors are also as basic as it gets. There's no reason to snake the rails as it provides no additional cooling what-so-ever, so point to point it is.

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Automation timings are as close as possible leaving a bit of room. Temp sensor that starts the cooler is set to 190C. I haven't run it long enough to actually test if that is the equilibrium but around that I expect to level out. I just spawned in hot petroleum and made sure over 20 cycle that the temperature is indeed dropping.

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And the save file for anyone interested.

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25 minutes ago, Saturnus said:

-snip-

I had kept the cooler and AT in different places because the cooler was meant to be just that, a universal stand-alone cooler. The AT was just an external heat load with a common heat deletion target.

Hats off to you for combining the two and crushing it even smaller.

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Woah, that's a cooling option! Very well thought!

Simple and elegant. Thanks for sharing!

Is it an exploit?

I mean, not in the moral sense, but in practical terms... are fridges working as intended or there is a chance we'll have that patched out and no fun allowed etc?

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1 hour ago, Saturnus said:

I just joined them up to make it as compact as possible.

And now it fits into the 4 tile high rows that lots of people love.  That should increase reuse.  Just nestle this puppy in the corner of some seldom used row in your base, and tada, all cooling is taken care of. :) 

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50 minutes ago, Junksteel said:

are fridges working as intended or there is a chance we'll have that patched out and no fun allowed etc?

Klei rarely says, and things always change. Try it out. If you're having fun, who cares.

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