I've been designing high-output CAUSC reactors, but for some reason my calculations keep being incorrect. I checked the wiki, but the values are different than on the nuclear engineering thread. So, how much DO ice and water buckets cool?
How much DO single use coolants cool anyway?
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Bucket of Water is -250, Block of Ice is -300 and a Bucket of Lava is +2.000
You should be aware that they only cool the hull if I'm not mistaken, but I'm not sure, since CASUCs don't use any components
High output is easy... 6 Blocks of Ice or 7 Buckets, rest uranium-cells. I could see a problem with Ice, since it will most likely stack instead of seperating itself to the 6 free slots. So you should put a stack of Ice in every slot and refill them (they should never run out, so provide more than 6 Ice per second in this case). Would be 1820 EU/t for Ice and 1770 for Water (you could go for 1790EU/t with water, but you have 8 heat over, and need to cooldown every 15min).
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hello blue, you are correct. CASUC reactors usualy dont use any components inside the reactor. and the bucket of water - ice blocks only cool HUL HEAT.
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1 very important thing to keep in mind:
Only 1 item will be used from each stack per reactor tick. This means 1 stack of 64 ice will provide only 300 cooling/tick for 64 ticks. To cool 1800 heat you need 6 stacks (6*300=1800).