Robo-miner for clearing Regolith

[Neotuck]

@Exa even with the 2 tile shadow a solar panel still gets plenty of light on the surface

especially at noon when it's the brightest the panel generates 359W that's only 21W under the max

but just for a little extra power I have the buffer gate on my logic circuit set to a full 200s keeping the doors open as long as possible

(I have never seen a meteor shower hit with in 200 seconds after the previous one ended)

 

not really necessary though my battery bank is full most of the time

[Nitroturtle]

A solar panel under a layer of glass only needs 10 of it's 14 tiles to be lit during mid-day to generate max power.  I've been using this arrangement which has worked well, you can see from the tooltip that even the bottom panel is currently at 380W:

 

[Sasza22]

1 hour ago, Exa said:

did you try to use pneumatic door under space scanner for not waste light?

Pneumatic doors have an overheat temperature, unlike airlocks. So i wouldn`t count on htose.

[Neotuck]

30 minutes ago, Nitroturtle said:

A solar panel under a layer of glass only needs 10 of it's 14 tiles to be lit during mid-day to generate max power.  I've been using this arrangement which has worked well, you can see from the tooltip that even the bottom panel is currently at 380W:

Well that's in a vacuum on the surface, mine has hydrogen to transfer heat from the robo miners.

Gas and liquids will dim the light from the surface

14 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

Pneumatic doors have an overheat temperature, unlike airlocks. So i wouldn`t count on htose.

All doors do, easiest solution is to build them with steel

[Sasza22]

Just now, Neotuck said:

Gas and liquids will dim the light from the surface

Only certain gasses. Iirc hydrogen and clean oxygen let 100% of light through.

[Neotuck]

Just now, Sasza22 said:

Only certain gasses. Iirc hydrogen and clean oxygen let 100% of light through.

I'll have to check why my solar panels are generating less power than @Nitroturtle even with less shadows

 

[Nitroturtle]

5 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

I'll have to check why my solar panels are generating less power than @Nitroturtle even with less shadows

 

Your setup appears to have 10 squares receiving light under a single layer of glass (unless there's more above).  That should allow the panel to max out mid-day.  I don't have any glass above mine, only mesh tiles which currently don't block any light, so I technically only need around 9 squares to max out, but I expect them to eventually make mesh tiles block light again anyways.  I used the numbers from this thread for my calculations: 

 

[Neotuck]

I had thought about using mesh tiles but they don't work well on my build

[Rainbowdesign]

35 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

 

A solar panel under a layer of glass only needs 10 of it's 14 tiles to be lit during mid-day to generate max power.  I've been using this arrangement which has worked well, you can see from the tooltip that even the bottom panel is currently at 380W:

 

Oh really solar panels dont run on full capacity? TIME FOR A MOD!!!!

[Neotuck]

5 minutes ago, Rainbowdesign said:

Oh really solar panels dont run on full capacity? TIME FOR A MOD!!!!

You quoated the wrong person there

[Rainbowdesign]

Cannot change it, dont care guess now everybody is aware anyways.

[Gurgel]

5 hours ago, Neotuck said:

Don't your robo miners generate their own heat?  And if they are in a vacuum won't they eventually overheat?

They do. It takes a while, but eventually they break without cooling.

[crypticorb]

2 hours ago, Rainbowdesign said:

Oh really solar panels dont run on full capacity? TIME FOR A MOD!!!!

Sheesh, you're as bad as @babba with your ONI shenanigans.

[babba]

[Rainbowdesign]

1 hour ago, crypticorb said:

Sheesh, you're as bad as @babba with your ONI shenanigans.

Ha i already have the code collected to make the maxoutput to 500 no big deal. But i plan to add a solar panel with more efficiency and more output made from steel (for now, i think i should add some more materials to the game too soon and then it will be from something harder to produce.).It sounds way easier than adding solar flares as example.

[pancakemafia]

You can try mine, it's very effective and I recommend it. I never have to clean up the area, I just need to fix some tiles since I don't have much steel for bunker tiles yet.

It's very simple. If a meteor shower comes in, the bunker door closes. When the meteor shower stops the bunker door opens once again, dropping the regolith on the satellite. The mechanize door that serves as the foundation will open 50 secs later to let the bunker door drop the regolith and closes back again to bring the satellite up. The robo miner does it's job and tadaah.

 

Here's how I cool it down.

 

 

[Neotuck]

9 minutes ago, pancakemafia said:

It's very simple. If a meteor shower comes in, the bunker door closes. When the meteor shower stops the bunker door opens once again, dropping the regolith on the satellite. The mechanize door that serves as the foundation will open 50 secs later to let the bunker door drop the regolith and closes back again to bring the satellite up. The robo miner does it's job and tadaah.

I have a similar automation setup 

First I have a 120s delay before the bunker doors close (my network is over 100% coverage so I can afford the delay)

Once the meteor shower stops there's a 5 second delay before the bunker doors open again (sometimes there's a meteor or 2 still falling when the sensors give the all clear)

As the bunker doors open the mech doors under the sensors open too for a full 200s

[pancakemafia]

3 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

I have a similar automation setup 

First I have a 120s delay before the bunker doors close (my network is over 100% coverage so I can afford the delay)

Once the meteor shower stops there's a 5 second delay before the bunker doors open again (sometimes there's a meteor or 2 still falling when the sensors give the all clear)

As the bunker doors open the mech doors under the sensors open too for a full 200s

That's a good catch noticing the other meteors even after the it's over. Question though, the satellites won't be operational for 200s and the bunker doors are open, won't that be a problem in case in incoming meteor shower comes? 

[Neotuck]

Just now, pancakemafia said:

That's a good catch noticing the other meteors even after the it's over. Question though, the satellites won't be operational for 200s and the bunker doors are open, won't that be a problem in case in incoming meteor shower comes? 

Main reason I wait that long is allow extra exposure to the solar panels below

Never seen a meteor shower start after only 200s had passed when the previous one ended

Even if it does it takes a full 200s for a meteor shower to start once it's detected (with 100% network coverage) and only 36s to close the bunker doors.  So the only way it would be a problem is if a new meteor shower was detected in less than 36s after the previous shower ended (I'm pretty sure that's impossible) 

[pancakemafia]

9 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

Main reason I wait that long is allow extra exposure to the solar panels below

Never seen a meteor shower start after only 200s had passed when the previous one ended

Even if it does it takes a full 200s for a meteor shower to start once it's detected (with 100% network coverage) and only 36s to close the bunker doors.  So the only way it would be a problem is if a new meteor shower was detected in less than 36s after the previous shower ended (I'm pretty sure that's impossible) 

Alright! I might have to see that once I have solar panels setup.