The tutorial thread mentioned that breeding speed doubles for every 3000 heat, so wanted to see if it was possible to get a 12000 heat breeder. First the good news, I was able to maintain a reactor at 15000 heat. The bad news... well, it didn't seem to recharge cells any faster than a 9000 heat breeder. It still took half a cycle to charge, not the expected 1/8. At least it's still a decent design at 9000 heat.
Here's the 9000 heat version: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…vslc3yanwrhl17ls420o0mnlt
Here's the 15000 heat version from my experiment: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…oovhpf12zjf41i8mey9jji0ap
The reactor produces 54 heat a tick, and the Integrated Heat Dispenser can only take 25 a tick. With 29 external cooling, the hull temperature stays constant. Any heat added stays in the hull and doesn't get transferred to the cooling system. This makes it easy to preheat with lava, and allows for the high temperature.
Now for the cooling system. Every tick the dispenser transfers 6 heat to each plating, which then transfers 2 heat to each coolant cell. The coolant cells next to 2 plates get 4 heat a tick, 3 after cooling. The cells at the tips get 2, 1 after cooling. The dispenser also heats up at 1 heat per tick, absorbing 25 but distributing 24.
So you can get 1/3 of a cycle before parts start to melt. Best case scenario, at 9000 heat, is you replace the high heat coolant cells between 1/6 and 1/3 of a cycle, and the new ones will last until the depleted cells are done recharging. Worst case scenario, at 9000 heat, is that the high heat cells melt after 3334 seconds. Then the remaining cells will be at 3334 heat, and now have a net gain of 5 heat a tick. They'll last another 1334 seconds, melting 4668 seconds into the cycle. Next the reactor plating will start to heat up, but recharging will finish before they melt. So if set up right, the only risk is loosing 8 coolant cells.
Some other notes:
You can run this reactor for multiple cycles, but you'll need to replace the low heat coolant cells and the dispenser once per cycle. Having an unused reactor to let them cool off in helps.
If you need to fine tune the heat, you can take out the dispenser for 25 heat per tick.
Either watch out for radiation damage, or add extra plating.
Here's a higher maintenance, but more compact 2 chamber version: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…h89kdbh1msrz3u7smwn9ongu9
It's important to have exactly 29 external cooling to maintain the hull temp. Don't forget that the first 2 designs I posted have solid blocks.
TL;DR:
15000 heat breeder isn't any faster than a 9000 heat breeder. Controlled heat by using only 1 integrated heat dispenser, creating a bottleneck.
. Anyway, here they are: