Legit water cooling?

[badimo]

I am just wondering if I am  using one of the many exploits to cool water or if this is working for real.

[Yoma_Nosme]

Cool map with two Anti Entropy Devices so close *pun intended

Pump out some of the water because if the water level is above the geyser it wont produce new water and then see if its warming up

[Kabrute]

You are but not in a major way so I wouldn't worry too much about it.  Cooling surface temps lower than the temps of whats below them is what triggers the exploit and you are brushing that point so lightly it shouldn't factor.  This is as exploit free as it gets in my opinion.

[Lutzkhie]

thats not exploit thats creativity haha

[Kabrute]

I would love to see a thermal overlay.  If any exploit is happening its right here.

[Roboson]

Often times its almost impossible to avoid stumbling into exploits. So many really cool designs have them, often completely unknowingly, to some degree. Its actually super impractical to worry about them unless you're designing the system around them. If you have a general idea of what they are, you can avoid them to the highest reasonable degree, but very few systems fail to at least partially skim the surface of accidental exploit triggering. As far as my (un)trained eyes can see, this has no red flags. 

 

In my opinion, cool builds are cool (pun intended). And if you really have to worry about it, just ask, "Would this work if the bug was fixed?" and if the answer is "yes" or "I don't know / maybe" then you have nothing to worry 'bout. 

[badimo]

As requested, I have attached a screenshot of thermal overlay below (it is a little hotter in this one).  I have had this tank draining to empty off and on for 300+ cycles so I am confident it is indefinite.  The one bad thing about the setup is the extreme variability of the temperature.  First, the heat gets out of control and goes to 35 c.  The cold turns on at 20 c but it takes a while for it to fight against the heat.  Eventually, it wins and the temperature drops below 20 c but winds up bringing it down to like 3 c before heat starts winning again.  I'm sure there is a way to moderate this fluctuation somehow, but I haven't experimented too much.

 

[Kabrute]

I would fill this gap with plates, may as well make the whole bottom of the tank cold.  As for your upper row my suspicions were correct, replace abys with igneous tiles along that ceiling line

to further increasing cooling capacity of that thermo, the abys blocks are slowing your cold transfer down.in my opinion

[badimo]

Funny thing is, when I originally built this, I didn't realize tiles would transfer heat at all.  I actually built tempshift plates behind the tiles (you could at the time).  Sadly, the tank itself is probably made out of abyssalite in error.

I used all diamond though.  That is one expensive wall.