[AddOn v1.71] Thermal Monitoring for Nuclear Reactors [SSP/SMP]

looks good

Quote from noosius

After coming home to the n'th crater in a spot where used to stand a 6 chamber nuclear reactor i decided enough was enough. Having spent obscene amounts of time playing with IC2 lately about the only thing i found lacking was a good control system to keep those reactors in check. I've put together a quick addon that allows you to monitor the temperature of the reactor chambers and send out redstone signals based on specific heat levels. Not only does this give you an excellent failsafe but it also allows you to finally visualize the heat level of the reactor.

One reactor can be surrounded by many temperature monitoring blocks, ofc at the expense of available outside water coolant spots. Each block can be set to a specific heat level at which to trigger its redstone signal. Using RP2's wire bundles this allows for a great compact high tech looking system. The easiest implementation would be to have only 1 monitoring block and looping its redstone signal back into the reactor chamber to provide an instant cut off and to keep the heat level constant.

Of course way more interesting solutions could be implemented, for example connecting the cable bundle to computercraft and automatically increment ice production based on different heat levels, or raising IC2's forcefield just before the reactor goes suborbital.

My plan is to release this addon as SMP from the start, since this is where i need it myself the most

Any feedback and/or ideas are as always appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6iTnaz16G4

Noosius

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Really useful
Also waiting for SMP
Sorry but have no idea but you have created a cool mod
With it we will have 100% safe reactors even mark 5 )

When do you plan to release it?

I was really hoping some1 can make mod for this!!!

Do you need one per reactor chamber?
Could you make one, that monitors the heat of all the chambers at once or the general heat level?

Looks awesome

Tried it and works a charm!
But if someone could show a set-up that makes it turn off at say 6000 temp than back on at say 1000-2000. That would be great!
Im not very good with redstone, and ive tried screwing around with all the redpower things and cannot get it to work properly.. Coz it would need to be set in a way that when the temp is 6000 (or your own temp) is reached monitor A activates, but due to it being about 2000 the other one is already on, so i need a system that makes 2 redstone currents (one coming form 6000 and 2000) to turn off the reactor, than once it drops below 6000 one redstone pulse goes off, but the reactor still stays off, and once it hits below 2000 and that monitor goes off, the reactor comes on.
6000 = A
2000 = B
A + B active = off reactor
During cooldown, A in-active and B active, reactor still off
A+B not active = reactor on
B active and A not active on the charge back up = reactor on.

Quote from reaper45693

6000 = A
2000 = B
A + B active = off reactor
During cooldown, A in-active and B active, reactor still off
A+B not active = reactor on
B active and A not active on the charge back up = reactor on.

Use a RS-NOR latch and a NOT gate.

When A activates one side reactor turns off when B goes low the not gate triggers the other side of the latch and reactor turns on.

Quote from melis256

Use a RS-NOR latch and a NOT gate.

When A activates one side reactor turns off when B goes low the not gate triggers the other side of the latch and reactor turns on.

I need a system so that when it reaches Temp X (high) it turns off, than once it cools down to Temp Y (low) it turns back on, and repeats the process, i cannot work it out for the life of me...

Quote from reaper45693

I need a system so that when it reaches Temp X (high) it turns off, than once it cools down to Temp Y (low) it turns back on, and repeats the process, i cannot work it out for the life of me...

Do you have Red Power? You can craft a RS-NOR latch and NOT gate. Or if you don't it isn't the hardest in the world either to do old school.

Just wire it correctly and listen to what I said and it will do what you described.

.....to reactor
..........|
A--------RS---<NOT<----B
..........|
........[nul]

When measured reactor temp. hits the set amount on A it will flip the latch from [nul] to reactor while B is still active since temp. is over its set amount which is lower than A's
When reactor cools to below B's set value B stops emitting redstone signal and the NOT gate turns on flipping the latch back to [nul]

[nul] is just geekspeak for nothing, you can wire it to a lamp if you wish, to tell you when your reactor is supposed to be on or something

Really nice add-on. I don't usually go for IC2 add-ons but this one definitely looks solid.

Also when testing the above cooldown switch system with Redpower and vanilla wiring, I noticed some "unusual" behavior with the vanilla wires.

A Themal Monitor placed adjacent to a reactor core will cause any vanilla wires connected to the core to become powered [so will automatically shut-off the reactor]. I had to place a vanilla repeater adjacent to the core to negate this "feature". I don't know if this can be avoided, so just a heads up to anyone using vanilla wires to connect to the reactor w/ a repeater.

Ed: Just tried to reproduce the result, didn't work the first time, and got infinitely powered wires the second time so yeah... repeaters are your friend. [Seems to be an issue with the IC reactor, not this add-on]

Ed2: After further testing, seems to be related to this mod, as I was able to get a Thermal Monitor to power a Reactor Chamber, even when no wires were involved.. So I'm probably just doing it wrong

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Do you have Red Power? You can craft a RS-NOR latch and NOT gate. Or if you don't it isn't the hardest in the world either to do old school.

Just wire it correctly and listen to what I said and it will do what you described.

.....to reactor
..........|
A--------RS---<NOT<----B
..........|
........[nul]

When measured reactor temp. hits the set amount on A it will flip the latch from [nul] to reactor while B is still active since temp. is over its set amount which is lower than A's
When reactor cools to below B's set value B stops emitting redstone signal and the NOT gate turns on flipping the latch back to [nul]

[nul] is just geekspeak for nothing, you can wire it to a lamp if you wish, to tell you when your reactor is supposed to be on or something

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Yeah I have redpower, im using it, im a noob at redstone shit, and have been trying this for more than an hour and it will not work!
I can set it up in reverse.. So that if both Monitors are on, the reactor still runs, than when the Monitors turn off, the reactor turns off (im using levers for testing of course) I can make it so that B comes on, than A, it turns ON the reactor, than when A turns off, and B turns back off, the reactor turns OFF.. THe opposite effect I wanted
If you could make a set up vid or something that would be great...