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  1. I've posted this in the thread that Slayster linked, but it holds more value in here so I will throw it here with some more information:

     

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    That is how I've set up automatic minium stone crafting.

    It isnt't perfect, but it works for the most part.

     

    The ME Export Busses below the two devices are only there to make sure they are always stocked up with coal, so both devices will always have 64 coal in them.

    The ME Interfaces in the back are of course holding the crafting recipes. The Calcinator has the recipe that turns 8 Diamonds into 8 Minium Dust, which the Import Bus on top will suck up.

    The Aludel has the recipe that turns 8 Minium Dust and an Inert Stone into the Minium Stone.

     

    Now here comes the tricky bit, as the dust needs always go in the bottom slot. For that it needs to be the first item in the device.

    In all likelyhood the inert stone will be done before the dust is, so to fix that problem I simply manually put 1 dust inside of the Aludel. It makes the entire set up only work for Minium Stone, but that is all I need anyway.

    What happens is simple, the dust will start to stack with the dust and the Inert Stone will just get put into the other slot that is not occupied.

    In the end the Import Bus on the right of the Aludel will suck up the Minium Stone into the ME system.

    thats so easy and perfect!

     

     

    why didn't i think of that?...

  2. Does anyone know how to automate the crafting of minim stones in an aludel with AE? Or even with buildcraft or thermal expansion pipes?

    As long as i can craft minium stones on demand and connect it to an AE network then it is alright.

     

    Is it even possible at all?

  3. Personally I built my Galacticraft launch pad inside a mountain and made a nice sliding roof door, James Bond villan style!

     

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    I think the biggest use other than drilling platforms is big doors.

    Could you give me a detailed explanation of how you did this? I have tried... and failed.

  4. Haha, fair enough. When my players moan, I make them submit a ticket so I quit hearing about it :P

    My players are far too disorganized. A while ago i setup a pvp arena so they can fight there. First few days they played on it. 2 week later i removed the plugin due to disuse -_-. They were fighting outside their homes and wrecking each others armor. when it did break finally they started complaining like idiots because their armor broke but they still carried on fighting.

  5. Not a bad looking setup, but yeah tighter packing of the rods, with enough coolant between them and the sides of the reactor, allows the reactor to be slightly more efficient.  But the difference only matters over a LONG time of running the reactor.  And if you've got a quarry or laser drill bringing in yellorium, the added efficiency this would allow isn't that important.

     

    All told, you could probably reduce the amount of coolant needed by a collumn or two with the + design but...  Your design is simple, upgradable, and looks clean.  Nicely done.

     

    The most important thing to remember here is:  Are YOU happy with the reactor?  If so, I would call that a win.

    lol, i  am happy with the reactor. I am angry at Thermal Expansion for not having even better cables!

  6. I never understood the point of PvP. What is fun about everybody being a griefer?

    Whatever, I will just continue building.

     

    Btw, polls will not matter much concerning the Tekkit roadmap and what is included or not. It is mostly governed by what is doable and works well together, and what the developers envision Tekkit to be, or become.

    well, i am a nice griefer. i blow up building, yes, but only ones that are abandoned lol. It takes some of the stress away of having 3 moaning players on my server non stop

  7. Well, 403% is pretty good. Looks like they are close enough after all.

    You can get ~450% with a tighter setup, up to ~500% if you push it. I was expecting this to be more around 200-300%, but I guessed wrong.

    Your right, it does improve. But just not enough (with my setup) to make much of a difference. But still, Good call
  8. Well, 403% is pretty good. Looks like they are close enough after all.

    You can get ~450% with a tighter setup, up to ~500% if you push it. I was expecting this to be more around 200-300%, but I guessed wrong.

    well I did write it.

    second line under Settings.

    so yeah...

    but i will look into your point

  9. Thanks for sharing.

    But one quick note about the reactor design: While this will work okay, it will not yield a very high fertility / core irradiation. This is the percent value in the reactor interface, and getting it above 400% is recommended. It will increase reactor heat, but also reduce fuel consumption dramatically, which equals higher efficiency. Given the already very high efficiency of Yellorium-based energy production, this could be considered a moot point. But some people think that you cannot be "too efficient".

    Packing the fuel rods more tightly will increase that value. You could even put them right next to each other, provided there is a potent coolant in the non-column blocks (your Cryotheum is already optimal). A simple and straightforward setup is the "plus shape" with five columns.

     

    I don't mean to say your reactor is bad. Just wanted to point this out.

    the fuel reactivity is 403%. I produce more power than i know what to do with... I waste most of it just because i cannot store all of it.

     

    But I will see how much changing the reactor does to my base. Thank you for pointing that out

  10. So I decided after everyone helped me so much with my setup in this thread,

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    I will share my Big Reactors setup. Just cos some people don't know how to or can't be bothered to do so.

     

    My setup is 1 Reactor and 2 Turbines

     

    The Reactors is made like this

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ji4a0dgqr635pm/2014-04-20_15.07.53.png

     

    The Bottom is 5x10 blocks big.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoero13eznd0u3h/2014-04-20_15.11.11.png

     

    There are 4 fuel rods (per layer, so a total of 24), the coolant that I use is Gelid Cryotheum.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsr43ihlhzhm37m/2014-04-20_15.22.03.png

     

    It is 8 blocks tall (including all casing bottom layer and control rod top layer)

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlob81065ub322n/2014-04-20_15.20.19.png

     

    Just a picture of the top. (All settings will be at the end)

     

     

     

    Now to make the turbine.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ratp8eqf5mxgeg/2014-04-20_15.24.10.png

     

    The Bottom is 5x9

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/bcectuuclkrv0rt/2014-04-20_15.25.44.png

     

    A picture of the overall casing

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxslebpkpaz3lja/2014-04-20_15.26.49.png

     

    I uses 2 coils of enderium blocks

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/qej7k0rxuocnjp7/2014-04-20_15.27.43.png

     

    I also have 20 blades

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlajmwlzz2bub1s/2014-04-20_15.30.19.png

     

    Picture of the front (Controler, power tap, fluid ports)

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/mn8f4windp8b5l0/2014-04-20_15.30.26.png

     

    Picture of the back (Turbine Shaft)

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/mn8f4windp8b5l0/2014-04-20_15.30.26.png

     

    So that is one turbine. Remember, we need 2. Both exactly the same.

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/9kcdn3bdx1b9ety/2014-04-20_15.35.39.png

     

     

    Sending Steam

     

    Just a few tesseracts on the same channel. One connected to a outputing reactor cooling port and 2 connecting to inputing turbine fluid ports, 1 tesseract per turbine.

     

     

    Producing water for the Reactor

     

     

    Thanks to jakalth for a method.

     

    If you sending all the waste water from your turbine back to your reactor, that alone should make it self sustainable.  But I guess that does require that you have waste water in your turbine to begin with.  You'll need to let the coolant level in your reactor completely fill before turning it on.  let your turbine use the steam produced to fill it's coolant tank, once this is full shut down your reactor and let it's tank fill up again.  once that is done, there should be enough water in the two devices that they can keep each other filled.  Just make sure your turbine is NOT set to dump all waste.  Have it set to only dump the excess waste.  Having it dump all waste works if you use another method to keep your reactor filled.

     

    Reactor steam --> turbine

    Turbine water --> reactor

     

    on seperate tesseract channels otherwise they will get steam and water mixed.  You'll need seperate coolant ports for both steam output and water input in your reactor.  and each tesseract is linked with seperate ones on the steam input and waste water output on your turbine.  With that setup, you'll only need a small input of water, going into a third coolant port on your reactor to make sure it stays topped off.

     

    When jakalth says small input of water, I needed about 4-5 auqeous accumulators to keep it full.

     

     

    Settings

     

    Very simple, all control rods at 60%.

    This makes the reactor run at around 195 degrees Celsius, Produce around 3520/3530 mB/t. It uses 0.077/0.078 mB/t of fuel. It's fuel reactivity is around 403%.

     

    The turbine (once up to speed) has 1782.7 RPM, 10140 RF/t. Remember to keep the max flow rate at 2000 mB/t.

    Remember there are 2 turbines. Both Turbines produce about the same amount of power, with just a few units in differences.

     

    Just remember that with these settings each turbine produces slightly more than 10k RF/t so you will need 2 separate lines of redstone energy conduits, 1 for each turbine, and you will need resonant energy cells to harness that power.

     

    This is about the size of how much resonant energy cells you will need.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/2zb2c0shvbv44i2/2014-04-20_16.43.20.png

    I have a few battery stations like this...

     

     

    So, thats my setup more or less. Feel free to improve or edit in anyway.

  11. Something from Extra Utilities can supposedly carry more, never tried it myself. And Tesseracts, being infinite point-to-point connections, have no limits (but only if connected directly).

    You can of course just create more power taps and run several separate main lines with Redstone Energy Conduits and Resonant Energy Cells.

     

    Alright, thanks i just added separate mains.

  12. You can use the big reactors mod, then the reactor produces steam when you pump water into it and you can use that to power a turbine from big reactors or a different mod that uses steam

  13. Or, if your using a turbine, use a second set of tesseracts to return the water from your turbine too your reactor.  then a single auqeous accumulator is all you'll need to keep your reactor topped off.

    Does not give me enough water from some reason... nothing does.

     

    EDIT: nevermind, it works now, but i need like 3-4 auqeous accumulator

  14. You might try starting with this thread - '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

     

    Lots of very good information about reactor designs.  Contained with is a link to a spread sheet with fantastic information about the power output of numerous reactor sizes, fuel layout, coolant types, control rod settings but alas it does not include fuel consumption numbers but in only the most broad sense - the author indicates which design combo per size is the most efficient.

     

    Best

     

    edit - here is an excellent link on the effects of different materials used for the coils/rings in the turbines and their effects on power generation.  Somewhere it should be pinned!  .

     

    edit - this thread (though a little outdated) is excellent and does have some images of turbines.  '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>.

    amazing. thanks!!

  15. well that's a good question. Try filling a florb or portable tank or something with steam and see if you can use that as the filter?

    No florb for steam :( But there is a drum from Extra Utilities. That Works! :D

     

    Why not use a tesseract to transfer your steam directly from your reactor to your turbine ?  

    I did not think of that... Does it work?

  16. Hi, new to the Forums.

    But anyway. I have a reactors from the Big reactors mod. And it outputs steam quite nicely. The problem is once the steam is in the AE network thanks to Extra cells' ME fluid import bus, how do i get it out into the turbine? With a ME fluid export bus, yes but how am I meant to tell the bus to export the steam into the turbine?

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