Hello, for the past few weeks I've been designing and building CASUC reactors, both bucket and ice, and wanted to show them to you
I've been trying to make them as small as possible, and noticed that for 1000EU/t or less, water CASUCs are better, but for more than 1000EU/t they are beaten in size by ice CASUCs.
For the bucket CASUCs I made, the more the EU you want, the bigger the size. The best size/performance ratio I got was with the 1000EU/t reactor.
350EU/t water bucket CASUC:
Extremely small, low-technology, does not have overheating/meltdown prevention system. Also, the remote thermal monitor is fed by batteries which are stored in one of the chests due to the small size. Good reactor if you don't need a lot of power.
850EU/t water bucket CASUC:
Medium size, medium technology. Does have overheating prevention system, and the thermal monitor is fed by a solar panel (optionally, it can be fed by a batbox). Does not offer a reactor controller (overheating prevention system is simple).
Ignore the other stuff on the background
1000EU/t water bucket CASUC:
The same as the 850EU/t one, except it's a bit bigger and has a higher output.
2000EU/t water bucket CASUC:
Large size, hi-tech. Does have a simple overheating prevention system. This model is pretty much obsolete since it is very big compared to the 2070EU/t ice CASUC and has nothing better, but if you like high power water CASUCs then this is your choice...
2070EU/t ice CASUC:
Large size (although I find it small for the amount of energy it produces), hi-tech. The model on the pictures has a simple overheating prevention system, but optionally there is one with a complex reactor protection system with a better control panel and a reactor controller, but of course it will be bigger (pics of this soon). This is my favourite reactor.
The compressors have 15 overclocked upgrades each, a stack of storage upgrades (I needed to ensure they got as much EU storage as they could) and 3 transformer upgrades, since they are directly powered by the reactor's 2070EU/t when needed (when warmed, they don't really need much EU to work). This reactor is meant to be run non-stop, stopping for refueling should be done as fast as possible. However, if the reactor is off, there is a battery (MFSU) with 10 million EU available to have the compressors warmed up.
The only downside of this reactor is that for the first time start only, you need to feed it a few stacks of ice until it the compressors warm up for the first time and the reactor becomes self-sustainable. This will also happen if the MFSU becomes empty and the compressors completely cool down, but for that to happen the reactor must be off for a long time.
Everything this reactor needs is on the containment building (incluiding snow golems), nothing is underground, except the wires from the control panel to the reactor.
All of these reactors are Mark I.
Well, hope you got inspired and start making your own CASUC reactors, they are always fun to make cause everytime you build a new one you notice you can make it even smaller
PS: I posted this in the Tekkit section cause I use Tekkit both for SSP and SMP, these reactors were built in Tekkit not Technic. If you think this isn't the appropiate section and it should be posted under Technic SSP, move the thread (if you are an admin) or tell an admin to move it.
