psusi Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 IIRC, steam turbines used to have a "spin up" period where they ate the full amount of steam but didn't yet produce full power, so to not waste power you wanted to use automation to not let it turn on until your steam chamber was nice and hot and could keep it running for a while before it cooled down and the turbine stopped due to low temperature. Is this no longer a thing, so you may as well just let it run as soon as it wants to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnus Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Correct. The animation still show a spin up time but it's actually not present on the power production numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaekai Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Did they fix the Aquatuner too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psusi Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 11 hours ago, Xaekai said: Did they fix the Aquatuner too? What do you mean? It isn't broken, nor does it have a spin up like the turbine used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yalp Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 12 hours ago, Xaekai said: Did they fix the Aquatuner too? It still wastes power when you interrupt liquid flow to it (e.g. shutoffs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psusi Posted November 19, 2019 Author Share Posted November 19, 2019 10 hours ago, Yalp said: It still wastes power when you interrupt liquid flow to it (e.g. shutoffs). Whoa, that sucks, when did they screw that up? Last year I used a valve to limit the flow rate of coolant going to the heat exchanger, and a packet combiner to only feed the AT a full packet every few seconds and the AT did not waste power while waiting for a new packet to form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yalp Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 5 hours ago, psusi said: Whoa, that sucks, when did they screw that up? Last year I used a valve to limit the flow rate of coolant going to the heat exchanger, and a packet combiner to only feed the AT a full packet every few seconds and the AT did not waste power while waiting for a new packet to form. When the first package of liquid comes to the AT, the AT runs for 1 second before processing it (kinda like the spin up I guess). This not only wastes power but also delays that first package of liquid. Controlling the AT with automation doesn't cause the "spin up". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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