[AU-217565] Air Scrubber is making excessive reserve of CO2

While the Air Scrubber does still have the 3 month old Empty Pipe bug (for some reason),
I'm not actually seeing a bug here. You're cutting power from the building before it can do anything.
The element consumer ticks 4 times a second and the converter ticks once per second.
Therefore the pressure will drop before 1 second can pass and power will be cut.

If you want to see the Empty Pipe bug... Just cut the water off.

Edit: Tried changing the conversion interval to 0.25 and even 0.1 yet the consumer still outpaces the converter.
Adding a battery buffer behind the switches doesn't help either because the consumer is still running.
Just adds a delay to the bursts of operational.

Not sure about the best approach to fix this problem.
Ideally should add another intake for CO2 gas and remove the consumer but I know from experience Klei is avoiding this addition for as long as possible because it's a nightmare to implement more than one conduit consumer or conduit dispenser.
 

Edited May 20, 2017 by Risu

On 20. 5. 2017 at 9:04 PM, Risu said:

I'm not actually seeing a bug here.

I believe that potentially unlimited amount of stored CO2 counts as a bug. At cycle 681 of the same save, there's already 890 kg of CO2 in that very scrubber.

What I am proposing is, when there is more than certain amount - such as 1 kg - of CO2 in the reserve, the scrubber should stop collecting ambient CO2 until the storage is below that limit again. 

5 hours ago, Kasuha said:

I believe that potentially unlimited amount of stored CO2 counts as a bug. At cycle 681 of the same save, there's already 890 kg of CO2 in that very scrubber.

What I am proposing is, when there is more than certain amount - such as 1 kg - of CO2 in the reserve, the scrubber should stop collecting ambient CO2 until the storage is below that limit again.

Hmm. That's true. The element consumer is stating that it has a capacity of 5 kg, but that setting is not read anywhere in the code.