Oni Noob Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Hi Guys, I am trying to follow this video brothgar, I wanted to produce electricty and plus cool my base. But unfortunately he wasnt able to clearly explain his electricity setup, not sure where to hook up the transformers. Can someone help me figure this one out. Thanks I am not sure how he was powering is aquatuner... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthonicone Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 This is how I usually handle the power transformers. Each floor of my base I have a level that puts out power for the level. This is an old photo though, now I usually have 1-2 small transformers on a single wire/conductive wire respectively. Let me see if I can find a saved copy of that set up. (Apparently I haven't so let me go grab one real fast.) As you can see, both small transformers are on a single conductive line, while the heaviwatt powers both. This way the conductive wire can be ensured to only have a max draw of 2 kW. You can do a similar setup with 5 large transformers to step down from conductive heaviwatt to heaviwatt if you want, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oni Noob Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 @Chthonicone sorry trying to wrap my head on what you said. If I look brothgar video, does it mean the two small tranformers(circled red) are powering the aquatuner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthonicone Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 That's likely the case. I'm not sure as I couldn't follow the video, but due to the setup I know 2 things: He's not using a heaviwatt, and it has to be conductive with either 2 small transformers or one large transformer. If it's the only thing on the wire then a large transformer is fine, as it won't overload it ever, but 2 small transformers is cheaper, and safer. They just take up 2 more tiles of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebrait Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Oni Noob said: @Chthonicone sorry trying to wrap my head on what you said. If I look brothgar video, does it mean the two small tranformers(circled red) are powering the aquatuner? 2X1Kw=2Kw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oni Noob Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 I was to make this work but I am not sure what I am doing wrong but it doesnt cool that fast. I think the highest temperature I got is around 28c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avc15 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Oni Noob said: I was to make this work but I am not sure what I am doing wrong but it doesnt cool that fast. I think the highest temperature I got is around 28c If you watch brothgar's video carefully it takes quite a long time the way he's doing it. First it takes a long time to fill the water pipes. Second, heating hydrogen from electrolysis & then consuming that h2 with the generator: you just don't move much heat this way, for a few reasons. The A/T will not run very much. It is a gradual cooling, but efficient, and a feasible way to delete some heat for low power cost, in the early game with only a small amount of refined metal available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oni Noob Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Just now, avc15 said: If you watch brothgar's video carefully it takes quite a long time the way he's doing it. First it takes a long time to fill the water pipes. Second, heating hydrogen from electrolysis & then consuming that h2 with the generator: you just don't move much heat this way, for a few reasons. The A/T will not run very much. It is a gradual cooling, but efficient, and a feasible way to delete some heat for low power cost, in the early game with only a small amount of refined metal available. On my setup I am losing water, Should the petro generator running 100% of the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avc15 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Sorry this is not my setup and I don't know it that well. I am not certain but I don't think the petroleum generator has to run full time, however, your battery shouldn't be running out or you have a power shortage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oni Noob Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Just now, avc15 said: Sorry this is not my setup and I don't know it that well. I am not certain but I don't think the petroleum generator has to run full time, however, your battery shouldn't be running out or you have a power shortage. Do you use the same principle? Maybe you could share your setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avc15 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 No, my setup for surviving Oasis was based on boiling liquids and venting them to space. Might try fuel preheating this time for the early game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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