Posts by Chocohead

  • Coolant Cell

    Quote from JanXP

    ok my boiler is heating up and can i place the condensator dircetly to the Steam generator and the Steam automaticaly goes in there?

    Yes, the boiler auto-ejects the steam it has. If it's buffer fills to 10000 mb of steam and it isn't used, it will vent it and smoke particles will go everywhere.

  • Kinetic Steam Generator Recipe

    Cos this: http://bt.industrial-craft.net/view.php?id=1144

    Since the heat system has a heat conductor, the kinetic system should too. IMO, you should use mining pipes, because they are underused and are rod shaped after all. Else, 3 plates vertically should make a kinetic shaft in order to pass the rotation between the machines. Whether it actually does, or is just used as a crafting component, I don't mind.


    THE KINETIC WIND GENERATOR
    Since it runs off wind, it should have the windmill somewhere in the recipe.

    X X X
    X W S
    X X X

    X = Empty Space
    W = Windmill
    S = Shaft or Mining Pipe


    THE KINETIC GENERATOR
    It should either be:

    X X X
    X G S
    X X X

    X = Empty Space
    G = Generator
    S = Shaft or Mining Pipe

    or

    C C C
    C G S
    C C C

    C = Iron Item Casing
    G = Generator
    S = Shaft or Mining Pipe

    The first one is to fit in with the Wind generator, the second to match more like the current one.


    THE KINETIC STEAM GENERATOR (TURBINE)

    C C C
    B T S
    C C C

    C = Iron Item Casing
    B = Copper Boiler
    T = Turbine Blade
    S = Shaft or Mining Pipe


    Just an idea ;)

  • Coolant Cell

    Quote from JanXP

    Ahhh there is one last Question: how the Steam generator generatest steam? ?( I have filled water inside but how i make the water hot?

    First of all, it's slow. Like really slow. There is a line in the config which lets you choose how slow it is:

    Code
    ; Balace Values for Heat Capacities (Water per 1mB) and boiler
[balance / steamgenerator / heatcapacities]
water = 50
boiler = 5000

    I've already changed them, but essentially, the lower they are, the faster the water will heat up.


    To heat the water, you must use the new mechanic - heat. You can tell a machine makes or needs heat by if it has a copper coloured square on one of it's faces.
    In order to transfer heat, you must have a heat generator's square touching a heat acceptor's. There are many ways to generate heat:

    • Solid Heat Generator - burn items to generate heat - 10 heat
    • Fluid Heat Generator - burn fluids* to generate heat - 8, 16 or 32 heat
    • Radioisotope Heat Generator - use RTG pellets to generate heat - 0 to 24 heat, 6 heat per RTG pellet
    • Electric Heat Generator - use EU to generate heat (1 EU = 1 heat) - 0 to 30 heat, 5 heat per coil added
    • Liquid Heat Exchanger - Cool either lava or hot coolant to generate heat - 25 to 100 heat, extra 25 heat per added vent


    * Fluids count as:

    • Buildcraft Oil and Forestry Biomass - 8 Heat
    • Forestry's Ethanol - 16 Heat
    • Buildcraft Fuel - 32 Heat

    Your best bet is to use a Liquid Heat Exchanger with 3 heat vents in, which given either hot coolant from a reactor or lava, will generate 100 heat and is the best heat generator currently available.

  • Coolant Cell

    OK, you have to get the distilled water into the left hand tank. Either you use a universal fluid cell of distilled water then you can right click it straight into the tank, get another mod's tank and pump it in (since it is a liquid) or get another canning machine, set it to empty from cell into tank mode and then either use another mod's pipes or a fluid ejector upgrade to get it into the first canning machine.

    Distilled water comes from the steam generator producing steam, and pumping the steam into either a condenser or a kinetic steam generator. The kinetic steam generator can make EU from the steam, but needs a turbine. The condenser doesn't need a turbine, yet it needs EU.