Heating up my plants...

[PhoenixGaming69]

I am trying to heat up these 4 hydroponic farm plots, using another hot water pipe, but not getting it up to a high enough temperature (see image).  I tried making the pipes to warm up the air around the plant, but I believe the polluted water this plant takes in is at -6 C, so it just doesn't warm up enough.  Is the only solution warming up the hydroponic plot by warming up the polluted water before it gets there?  I was trying to warm up the 'air' above the plant thinking it could do the trick.

[hypoeffort]

Its just drinking more cold water than your warm air can handle.    Maybe if you had a larger system with more heat coming in it could work.  I've always ran mine playing with the temp of whatever the plant is drinking.   Might come down to SHC and air is much more spread out than liquid.

[PhoenixGaming69]

I have a really hot source nearby (the one I was running the normal water pipe trying to warm up the air)... Perhaps I run some pipes that way to warm up the polluted water?

[Kiako]

I wouldn't use this design. There is no need to have a fork on the left side, all the hot water should go through the heating part. Otherwise Water may stop = not heating as much as expected.

You also may heat polluted water by running hot radiant pipe close to polluted water radiant pipe. High heat conductivity material between the radiant will help.

[7 and 4]

I'd relocate the whole thing closer to your core base.

Not only should you have the right temperature there already, but you also save on dupetraveltime for harvesting.

[PhoenixGaming69]

10 minutes ago, Kiako said:

I wouldn't use this design. There is no need to have a fork on the left side, all the hot water should go through the heating part. Otherwise Water may stop = not heating as much as expected.

You also may heat polluted water by running hot radiant pipe close to polluted water radiant pipe. High heat conductivity material between the radiant will help.

Yeah, that's actually the way I had it before, but it didn't seem to warm it enough just with the pipes being close.  I think I will redirect my polluted water to the geyser pond, setup radiant pipes there so it warms up and comes back...

 

[Dosephshih]

You should use INSULATED pipe for the input polluted water, then use RADIATED pipe for the tiles at the plant.

And make sure the Hot water is keep running.

I have a similar setup, using 70C ethanl to plant the Beans, and keep cooling the plant by running -5C water through the back of the plant.

 

[psusi]

Your pipes are goofed up because you have two parallel paths for the hot water to flow: either the insulated pipes going around, or the radiant pipes on the plants.  Is the water even flowing or is it confused?  You need to stick to one path or use bridges to prioritize one or the other.  Also if you are going to feed plants water of the wrong temperature, you don't want the water to sit in the hydroponic tile for long where it will exchange heat.  Use a valve to limit the flow going into each hydroponic tile to exactly what the plant needs so it is deleted as soon as it arrives and can't cool the plant down.

[Craigjw]

I use PW from bathrooms for my reeds, as the temperature tends to the ambient internal temperature of the living quarters, then I takes less effort to heat up the area to it's desired temperature.

For my slush geysers, i normally use for cooling areas/things before sending it to be used by anything, otherwise I'd be wasting all that lovely cold stuff.  It just doesn't make sense to send -5c PW to a reed farm before I use it to cool something.

I used a space heater for my balm lilly with 20c PW, just have the chlorine pumped into the far side of the plantation where it circulates past the plants, then heater and back into the mini-pump.   It takes a while to get the area to the right temperature though, but once at temperature requires very little extra heating, assuming the area is insulated of course.

[suxkar]

I use a tepidizer in a small pool to warm the input water. You waste a bit of power due to puping and the tepidizer itself, but it is SUPER effective and doesn't need to run much. A bit of automation and you can forget about it.