SchlauFuchs Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Hi, I have a small heat exchanger setup in my colony which cools down water in the first chamber and heats up water in the second one containing two aquatuners. When the coolant water reaches 95 degrees C I pump it into Electrolyzers to destroy the excess heat (cheeky me). The dropping pressure in the coolant chamber is replaced with cooler water from other sources. This setup was working up to about 24h ago. Since then I noticed that the coolant water temperature dropped from near 90 degrees to now about 65 degrees, but it can't be from mixing, as the pump is temperature activated, the chamber is full and no colder water is mixed in. Did anyone else notice this too? Target temperature in the left chamber is 32 degrees, in the right chamber 95 degrees. water passes one aquatuner for water of about 20 degrees, going to plants and through the base, the second aquatuner for some Sleet Wheat farm with about 5 degrees. The atmosphere above is reduced to about 200g/tile to reduce heat transfer, the whole structure is of course built with abbysalite. Cheers, Kai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambaire Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 24 hours ago, eh? I assume you're on the preview branch? That would be about when they messed with thermodynamics and changed tiles to transfer based on the average between two, not the lowest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchlauFuchs Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 Yes, Preview Branch. So do abyssalite tiles no longer insulate properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wachunga Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Regular abyssalite tiles no longer insulate nearly as well as they used to. Replace the wall between your tanks with insulated abyssalite tiles and it should work as before. Wherever you are using a single width regular abyssalite tile to insulate, you need to replace it with insulated abyssalite tiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenIsAGeek Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Or insulated tiles in general. Insulated sandstone works nearly as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsRjerks Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 non-insulated abyssalite works perfectly. i built a tile in magma and it's been sitting at 20c for over 10 cycles now, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchlauFuchs Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 yes I think that is not my issue here - the abysallite wall between the two water chambers is colder than each of the chamber contents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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