Progress in my PhotoSynthesizer project (Garden of Grind)

[calm island]

128 beautiful boilers

[unkempt panther]

Wrenches have line mode

[calm island]

i know but at the time I wasn't sure exactly which situation would avoid imbalanced distributions

[undone vine]

They dont know those boilers are ran by distilled water...

[frozen crescent]

What shader did you use that allowed you to have that sky there?

[calm island]

complementary reimagined

[autumn cosmos]

Am I correct in assuming these are Solar Boilers supplied by wooden pipes? Seems a pain to descale

[calm island]

large wooden pipes which has plenty of throughput for distilled water. excess buffer in that aspect isn't really necessary, since each boiler conusmes 2.25L/s

at 128 that's not even 300L/s, and large wooden pipes have 1200L/s throughput

I could quadruple the scale and not have to upgrade the pipes technically

[autumn cosmos]

I did not know Distilled Water was more efficient in boilers

This is knowledge

[autumn cosmos]

Do you know the exact ratios of Water to Steam VS Distilled to Steam?

[calm island]

identical, it's just that distilled prevents solar boiler calcification

[autumn cosmos]

Does it say that somewhere in the quest book or is this just "figure it out"

It do, im dumb

[autumn cosmos]

How many distilleries do you run? Just one?

[calm island]

48

[calm island]

Each distillery converts 6.25L/s at 10EU/t, so 3 from one turbine converts 18.75L/s at 30EU/t.

Each ASB generates 9EU/t uncalcified, so it barely doesn't convert evenly at 3 per in both directions

Since 3 ASBs per turbine is 27EU/t vs 30EU/t, and it's 1 distillery at 6.25L/s vs 3 ASB demand of 6.75L/s

[autumn cosmos]

Ah so 3 per Turbine not 2, image makes it seem like 2.

[autumn cosmos]

So Basically 1 to 3 scaling up distill to asb

and 3 asb power one turbine to power 3 distill, repeat ad infinim

[calm island]

More or less yeah, albeit a bit over the ratio due to it falling just under 3

[autumn cosmos]

Thanks, I know what I must do for the solar run

[autumn cosmos]

Turning this thing on is a nightmare

[autumn cosmos]

@calm island How long did 128 take you to fill without going kaboom lmao, by my math each boiler takes about 15~ minutes to fill\

[calm island]

I had to supply it in steps as to avoid a lack of buffer, usually had to swap between adding more distilleries and letting that build while I did other things, then placed 2-3 boilers at a time

luckily in 2.8 the distillery ratios will become a lot better/faster (only needing 36 per 128 boilers instead of 48)

and you can always build more distilleries than needed to increase buffer supply speed

[autumn cosmos]

Yea, currently have a secondary set of boilers running on normal water to supplement the steam whilst I run this in stages

[calm island]

the 12 difference being an equivalent of about 4A more efficient

[calm island]

are you trying to build it identically or just your own spin

[autumn cosmos]

Im only running 64 and I dont think Ive copied it exactly? Though idk how many different ways you could do it

[calm island]

also if you're in MV I would really not recommend that unless you're doing a solar/clean energy run

[autumn cosmos]

That is exactly what were doing lmao, no oil allowed

[calm island]

I configured it with 2 main lines, each having two boilers adjacent, so 4 boilers per column if you could think of it like that

means that for piping it goes distilled steam distilled distilled steam distilled

with boilers on top of the distilled

[autumn cosmos]

Currently running the distilled into 4 seperate lines, each line having 6 distills and 16 solars

[calm island]

and steam adjacent (so one block higher)

[calm island]

gotta make sure you have a large enough pipe then, due to throughput concerns

[calm island]

you can see the structure more clearly regarding piping here more or less

[autumn cosmos]

Large wooden should be enough if Ive done my math

Then running into large potin which each line runs into a huge main line

Im pretty sure Ive done my math right but we'll see

Alreayd had two kabooms lmao

[calm island]

oh i mean about steam not for water

like I used potin but huge/large commonly, and that still kinda limits throughput a bit

although you are in mv so dark steel is objectively better there

[autumn cosmos]

Well, "MV" as in we have made mv hulls

thats about it lol

[calm island]

dark steel only requires an EBF

oxygen if cupronickel coils, otherwise kanthal

[autumn cosmos]

Ill probably upgrade the pipes once we have a more robust infra for EBF

[autumn cosmos]

Is this ratio correct? It feels like the Solar Boilers are using more than this amount of distilled per second

I have 6 Distills fueling 16 Boilers, 4 rows in paralell which my math tells me it should be producing 37.5 Distill a second and using 36

unless Im stupid

[calm island]

that's correct, but due to the very small gap it'll not flow great / priority issue potential

aim for like 10L/s extra

[autumn cosmos]

Ah, gotcha

I take it you added redundancy after the fact of your images lol, breaks the symmetry

[autumn cosmos]

10l/s extra fixed my issue, Just had to segment them more into 8 rows instead of 4

3 distills per 8 Boilers is plenty of overhead

[calm island]

All 25 are done

[outer spoke]

@calm island just let me know if infos/text/title is ok. Thanks

[calm island]

yooo, but could this photo be used instead @outer spoke ? The one you have is when it was still unfinished

that or one of these here

text and info is otherwise fine

[outer spoke]

We have so much dark one this time and the second one looks less exiting . If you can Donnie from top I will use it

[calm island]

donnie?

and what about this one?

[outer spoke]

This perspective is more common . Sure I can use this but the other pic looks much better

[calm island]

got it, let me take a better one then

[outer spoke]

Sure

[calm island]

this better?

similar to the first photo but it also includes the solar boiler powerline

[outer spoke]

yes

[calm island]

gotcha, also ty for including mine for screenshots

[outer spoke]

@calm island ok ?