Tepidizer broken?

[rafker]

I have a little setup that boils the water from toilets to get rid off the food poisoning and then sends it to the purifier. Its been working so far with thermo switch on "Below 80" (+ atmo switch for pump to start pumping).

But at some random point I didnt notice that tepidizer stopped heating (after some update?) at all and all my water became infected. So it got locked on 46 (seldom 50). "Printing" new water at 60 and re-building tepidizer didnt work

Did anyone experience this?

 

UPD. Set water to 10, it took 5 cycles to get to 50 (so the tepidizer doesnt heat to 80 and then gradually heats the water, but gradually heats HIMSELF along with water, which is very slow). 

[Michi01]

Was there any text at the tepidizer or in its info that indicated why it didn't work? I don't know what could cause it to just stop working, there must've been a reason

[Oozinator]

1 hour ago, rafker said:

Did anyone experience this?

Do you feed tep directly from generator power or is there a battery directly in front of tepchain?
If not, give it a try.

[rafker]

18 minutes ago, Michi01 said:

Was there any text at the tepidizer or in its info that indicated why it didn't work? I don't know what could cause it to just stop working, there must've been a reason

No, it was neither overheated nor broken nor out of power and such. its "working" fine

 

13 minutes ago, Oozinator said:

Do you feed tep directly from generator power or is there a battery directly in front of tepchain?
If not, give it a try.

As for now, I use temporary system w/o transformers with 5 coal generators and 3 batteries all connected together (overall 2.8 kW)

[Oozinator]

Just now, rafker said:

As for now, I use system w/o transformers with 6 coal generators and 3 batteries all connected together (overall 2.8 kW)

Last time i used Tep, i had to make it that way, but was before update. Transformator- HCBatt-Thermoswitch-Tep

[rafker]

3 minutes ago, Oozinator said:

Last time i used Tep, i had to make it that way, but was before update. Transformator- HCBatt-Thermoswitch-Tep

The thing is its working, but doesn't heat anymore. Too bad Idk after which update it "broke"

I will try some time later to built new system in the other place to test whether it would work there (with only tepidizer in the network)

[Michi01]

25 minutes ago, rafker said:

The thing is its working, but doesn't heat anymore. Too bad Idk after which update it "broke"

I will try some time later to built new system in the other place to test whether it would work there (with only tepidizer in the network)

So is it on but not heating? Maybe in that case it's just heating too slowly to notice

[rafker]

14 minutes ago, Michi01 said:

So is it on but not heating? Maybe in that case it's just heating too slowly to notice

Yes. As I said before, usually it worked in a way when it heats itself (gradually, but fast) to the set temperature, and therefore gradually heats the water.

Now I even set it to some value and even if it heats, it does it VERY slow, and still gets stuck at some point of 50+- degrees

[The Plum Gate]

Why do you have your water pump on an atmo switch? is it for easy manual switching or what?

You need to insulate that wall on the right - that's going to be a hurdle in heat transfer and it's probably your problem to begin with. I have a steam geyser holding water in an insulated basin and it stays hot - but I have had problems with insulation if it's not wrapping around sufficiently.

[rafker]

3 hours ago, The Plum Gate said:

Why do you have your water pump on an atmo switch? is it for easy manual switching or what?

You need to insulate that wall on the right - that's going to be a hurdle in heat transfer and it's probably your problem to begin with. I have a steam geyser holding water in an insulated basin and it stays hot - but I have had problems with insulation if it's not wrapping around sufficiently.

Atmo switch allows the system to pump out water only when it reaches the switch itself (it reassures that the water would be already heated to 80 degrees)

I didn't care about insulation of the right side from the beginning, and as I said before, It was working properly before. I didn't change anything in my structure except I added a second purifier to the system.

UPD. As I said before, Ive built another tepidizer in the other place to check. It eventually got to the 80 (so it was heating faster than water), but still slow than it was before as it took 3 cycles for him to do it.
First tepidizer is still on 45-50. I will try to fully re-insulate this room

 

 

UPD.UPD. Full rebuilding of that room kinda helped but its still not unclear for me what caused that to happen 

[The Plum Gate]

20 hours ago, rafker said:

Atmo switch allows the system to pump out water only when it reaches the switch itself (it reassures that the water would be already heated to 80 degrees)

unless your using the atmo switch in a strange way... like max pressure or as a water level hack - I think you're confusing the atmo switch and the hydro switch, the thermo switch will assure you that your pumping water out at a given temperature, the atmo switch works on air pressure, hydro switch works on water level by mass in whatever tile it is set at.

All you really need is to put the thermo switch in water somewhere away from the tepidizer and set it accordingly. Run your pump off that. you can have a separate thermal switch to control your tepidizer from over heating if need be.

I know it seems wasteful to use filtration media in this regard, but running the germy polluted water through the water filter will generally remove some of the germs and heat the water coming out. Water itself should heat up faster than polluted water - it may be easier to treat the germy water than to treat the germy polluted water.