Conduction Panel in vacuum is not exchanging any heat?

[sheaker]

Dear All, 
I have radbolt generators in vacuum and I am running conduction panels behind them. CP is made of aluminum - description says extreme heat exchange and I think its value is 410. Now I am running polluted water of 10C through CPs while radbolt generators are already 110C. Radbolt generator is producing 5kdtu but with delta T of 100C I should easily cool them down. This is not happening. What I am doing wrong?

 

 

Ignore NaN heat production on screenshot. This is just after loading the game.

Any suggestions? 

 

Edited January 30 by sheaker

[Tigin]

seems to be working. Note radbolt generators don't have overheat temperatures so it doesn't make a big difference if its equilibrium is at a high temperature

[asurendra]

Conduction panels are pretty bad conductors. Formula itself limits them. They working good enough for low worktime buildings like autosweepers, but radbolt generators create a lot of heat. So yes, 100+C is usual for such setups

 

Upd, Conduction panel exchange uses both conductivities of building and panel itself. Your generators made from mafic rock, thich is one of the worst material for that. Granite or sandstone should work much better

Edited January 30 by asurendra

[sheaker]

I see. Thanks!

[wachunga]

The building to conduction panel heat transfer is governed by (as multipliers) not only the conductivity of both materials, but by the SHC of the hotter thing (the building) AS WELL. Is this dumb? Yes. Has it been this way for the entire existence of ONI? Yes.

Mafic rock has very low TC and SHC, I think you picked the worst material possible for the radbolt generator. Even ceramic expels heat better. Choose the material with the highest SHC*TC. Granite is 13.4x better than mafic.

Edited January 30 by wachunga

[cyberwarlord]

Is it on the right tile?

What materials?

[KittenIsAGeek]

On 1/30/2026 at 2:15 AM, sheaker said:

 

 

If I'm looking at this right, the center of the conduction panel is lined up with the honecomb grid of the radbolt generator.  Try moving things so that the radiator part of the conduction panel is behind the ball part of the generator. I think that's where the "heat" is distributed.  I think with how you're currently set up, the heat is transferring through the pipe to the building and not the panel.

All buildings have a particular "spot" where they interact with the world at large.  Someone a while back made a chart of the various pump gathering zones, for example.  Anyway, I know that conduction panels work best when lined up with where the heat from the building is "produced."