Thermal transfer from door to metal tiles broken

I think the door is normal.
I haven't calculated it in detail, but I guess it's because of the heat transfer mechanism around here.
https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Thermal_Conductivity#Example_2:_Abnormal_temperature_barrier

 

When I placed natural tiles with the same mass and temperature as the door (Wolframite) and metal tile (Steel), heat transfer stopped as well.

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However, this is unnatural at first glance, so even if the mechanism is normal, I'm not sure if it's correct as a game.

Edited September 21, 2020 by kbn

Hmm. Possibly. Now I have to find a way to fix that very counter-intuitive behavior. Because this construction runs into the problem time and again when the gold slowly cools. Second door from different material so one of the two keeps transferring well?

Anyways, thanks for the link.

Edited September 22, 2020 by Gurgel

kbn is on point, both blocks at 19.64 MDTU.

On 9/22/2020 at 7:24 AM, Gurgel said:

Now I have to find a way to fix that very counter-intuitive behavior.

You probably found a workaround by now, still, here's my solution:
Replace the corner metal tile with a gold one. If either, steel or gold are near equilibrium with the door, the other element will tip the balance because of the vastly different SHC (resulting in different Total Heat and heat transfer). If you think gold's melting point is too low, use Tungsten. Any other SHC tile would probably work...

Another solution would be a TSP.

I fixed it by adding a 2nd door from steel at around 3x the SHC. Then either the Wolframite or the Steel door conducts well. Pretty obvious once the problem is understood. I just never built a volcano-tamer of this type before, so I never had the thermal transfer over a very large temperature range that all gets hit. The 460C this ground to an (almost) halt at is way higher than what you usually run into.

It is really amazing how I run into new effects in Oni.

Edited September 26, 2020 by Gurgel