[SOLVED] How to cool Solar panel ?

[SackMaggie]

• try to cool it with water pipe (guess same goes for gas pipe) 
• drip water into it
• place bunch of tempshift
• build metal tile (hope for heat transfer)

All of this is FAIL

Only method that work to transfer heat in this vacuum is to make it no-longer vacuum I shut all door then throw gas at it my gas is disappear but heat do transfer to my pipe.

 

Or my solar panel is set in wrong place ?

 

 

EDIT Got answer thanks to catsRjerks

[0xFADE]

i haven't tried cooling things in a vacuum other than having them partially in liquid. It sounded like the vacuum of space doesn't allow for liquids.

You might have to vent cold gas past it or something.

[SkunkMaster]

The light has no limit. If you dig down to where there is no space background you will be able to make a room with air and cool the panel that way

 

 

[catsRjerks]

use the windows tiles. build the bunker doors above them and use the comet sensor to close them when there's a shower

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, catsRjerks said:

use the windows tiles. build the bunker doors above them and use the comet sensor to close them when there's a shower

And we have a winner!

[BlueLance]

I never thought of using the bunker doors like that.... we definently have a winner.

[GrindThisGame]

The meteor sensors get blown up during meteor showers which makes the bunker doors not open or get stuck open. It will need constant repair but might eventually work. You could always just use shine bugs to power your panels

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

I suggest not build the panel too close to the space edge. Because meteor radar need some space (I guess around 17 tiles)

 

4 minutes ago, GrindThisGame said:

The meteor sensors get blown up during meteor showers which makes the bunker doors not open or get stuck open. It will need constant repair but might eventually work. You could always just use shine bugs to power your panels

Maybe this?

Space edge
Bunker door
Radar
Windows tile
Solar panel

[catsRjerks]

27 minutes ago, GrindThisGame said:

The meteor sensors get blown up during meteor showers which makes the bunker doors not open or get stuck open. It will need constant repair but might eventually work. You could always just use shine bugs to power your panels

space edge

bunker door

window tiles

radar + panel

This system works. Or what R9 is suggesting works as well. Right now the bigger problem is the heat from the showers which is melting the doors but i assume it'll be patched in 2 weeks time.

[Risu]

You can lockup the meteor sensors after they detect them. They continue sending the signal even at 0% quality.
After the threat is gone you can open the doors back up to get 100% back.
 

[BlueLance]

Has anyone else thought about how funny it would be if meteors made it into your base XD I watched one destroy neutronium.

[catsRjerks]

2 minutes ago, BlueLance said:

Has anyone else thought about how funny it would be if meteors made it into your base XD I watched one destroy neutronium.

could finally connect those magma veins

[Guest]

Is it possible to stack the solar panel vertically? It shouldn't be, but i do want to know.

[FIXBUGFIXBUGFIX]

1 minute ago, turbonl64 said:

Is it possible to stack the solar panel vertically? It shouldn't be, but i do want to know.

Possible to stack, but only the top one can get solar light and generate power

[Guest]

1 minute ago, R9MX4 said:

Possible to stack, but only the top one can get solar light and generate power

I see. Yes the floor of the solar panel should block the sunlight.

 

Btw, I assume the panels have to build right below the space vacuum?

[blash365]

5 hours ago, GrindThisGame said:

The meteor sensors get blown up during meteor showers which makes the bunker doors not open or get stuck open. It will need constant repair but might eventually work. You could always just use shine bugs to power your panels

Can't you just place the sensor below a bunker door. Close the door when the sensor triggers and reopen it with a filter gate after a reasonable amount of time?

I am not sure whether the sensor would be able to function, but some automation should allow you to meteor-proof your sensor.

[Flydo]

9 hours ago, BlueLance said:

I never thought of using the bunker doors like that.... we definently have a winner.

First thing i think about it

[chemie]

Solar panels need a significant buff to be worth it.

After building bunker doors, glass tiles, getting a atmosphere and cooling in, that is a lot of infrastructure.

Now say you build 4 for a grand total of 880 only nothing at night so less than one nat gas gen.

Now subtract power to the metor shower sensors.  Not sure how many you need (2 is only 15% network efficienty).  Depending on that network efficiency, you could spend more on power than you get but let's say just 2 for -240W.  Plus the blast door use a lot of power when being poened and closed.

All this for <400W generation?  No thanks.

[caffeinated21]

They are pretty weak, but on the other hand you could cover the entire top border of the map with the damn things...

[Neotuck]

On 5/31/2018 at 4:44 PM, SackMaggie said:

EDIT Got answer thanks to catsRjerks

 

17 hours ago, catsRjerks said:

space edge

bunker door

window tiles

radar + panel

This system works. Or what R9 is suggesting works as well. Right now the bigger problem is the heat from the showers which is melting the doors but i assume it'll be patched in 2 weeks time.

I tried this and the glass under the bunk doors still took damage

[Risu]

2 hours ago, Neotuck said:

I tried this and the glass under the bunk doors still took damage

Need a 1 cell buffer zone between the doors and glass.
 

[Valchris]

How do you prevent from having to constantly manually sweep up the asteroids that fall? I tried using an auto-sweeper but they can't mine out the materials that fall. Having a duplicant go up there to mine out the material every day doesn't seem worth it at all.

 

[SharraShimada]

1 hour ago, Valchris said:

How do you prevent from having to constantly manually sweep up the asteroids that fall? I tried using an auto-sweeper but they can't mine out the materials that fall. Having a duplicant go up there to mine out the material every day doesn't seem worth it at all.

 

You got a good setup for the case. Just ad vertical automated airlocks at the place where your gas-vent is (and place that somewhere else)

Then link all of the doors to an automation wire, bound to a setup of buffer-gate(2sec) > not gate - filter gate(9.1sec) Add a automation-wire from the output of the filter gate to the output of the buffer gate to make it loop, and link the doors also to this line. 

That way, the doors are nearly always open (and letting sunlight through) but will close for 0.1 seconds every 2 seconds. This will crush everything falling into the doors. 

You may tinker around with automation to prevent the doors doing this, while the bunker doors are closed, to prevent power wasting. You may further experiment to do this crushing job just a couple of times (say 10x) after opening the bunker-doors, and then just stay open.

[Lifegrow]

 

[SharraShimada]

23 minutes ago, Lifegrow said:

 

Would not mind the destroying as long i get rid of the blocking. But yeah i would say thats a bug.

Another question... watched the video and noticed, your automation system will only produce noise when the automation overlay is active. But not when normal view is active. Did i miss anything? Because my automation always makes noise, which is somewhat disturbing at times.