Cooling in vacuum

[Sturm58]

Hi guys,

I'm having problems with things overheating in vacuum.

I am talking about auto-sweepers that hang in the air. They overheat since there is nothing to what they can transfer heat.

I have tried with radiating pipes, automation wires and tempshift plates - nothing works. 

Any other ideas?

[Neotuck]

heat won't transfer in a vacuum

you'll need to fill that vacuum with some kind of element to act as a thermal bridge (solid, liquid, or gas)

[Gurgel]

Usually you can put drywall behind and a tile below and then drip water on it. Mind that you have drywall behind the Liquid Vent as well. This here, for example, works pretty well:

You can also cool on the right attachment point. Don't know whether in the middle works.

Here is it for the storage thing:

[Sturm58]

1 hour ago, Gurgel said:

Usually you can put drywall behind and a tile below and then drip water on it. Mind that you have drywall behind the Liquid Vent as well. This here, for example, works pretty well:

You can also cool on the right attachment point. Don't know whether in the middle works.

Here is it for the storage thing:

This will do although i was hoping for a more "elegant" solution

[Neotuck]

10 minutes ago, Sturm58 said:

This will do although i was hoping for a more "elegant" solution

this "elegant" enough?

I use regolith to entomb my sweepers, loaders, and robo-miners, the regolith acts as a thermal bridge between the cold glass and hot machines

Here's what happens after regolith falls from the bunker doors:

[Sturm58]

18 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

this "elegant" enough?

I use regolith to entomb my sweepers, loaders, and robo-miners, the regolith acts as a thermal bridge between the cold glass and hot machines

Here's what happens after regolith falls from the bunker doors:

COOL!!!

Side note - does your power circuit not overload when opening all those bunker doors all at once?

[Neotuck]

2 minutes ago, Sturm58 said:

Side note - does your power circuit not overload when opening all those bunker doors all at once?

I only connect 16 bunker doors on a same circuit that is connected to a transformer powered by the solar panels 

as long as you make a separate circuit for every 16 doors they won't overload

[JonnyMonroe]

I normally just drywall about 30 rows of space and let the thin layer of co2 from meteors do the work of transferring heat.

[Gurgel]

3 hours ago, Neotuck said:

this "elegant" enough?

I use regolith to entomb my sweepers, loaders, and robo-miners, the regolith acts as a thermal bridge between the cold glass and hot machines

I would not call that "elegant". I would call it a very inspired hack though!

[Neotuck]

3 hours ago, Gurgel said:

I would not call that "elegant". I would call it a very inspired hack though!

I can live with that, thanks