![]() ![]() ![]() I just wish there was a gas input and output option so I could use hydrogen. Way better than having to set up random blobs of liquid. I might even use them to reduce the temps on my reservoirs that hold magma when I inevitably mess up and they overheat due to broken pipe. I will use these all the time in my random machines in vacuums that need minor active cooling, like autosweepers, conveyor loaders, autominers etc. They don't need to be fast if they can keep up within about 100 C of the steam room's temperature. ![]() If I can keep a steel autosweeper from overheating with this by simply piping it through a conduction panel like this and running that liquid through a steam room, that makes creating vacuum-based sweepers and similar tools significantly more convenient. To me, this makes the conduction panel seem worth it. It seems to keep up with a rabolt generator (5k DTU/s) with simple water in the pipe, but the bad transfer rate prevent the temps from equalizing.ĭidn't manage to keep up with an AETN, don't know if the issue was the size of the building, the -80k DTU/s, or the super coolant. Draw your own conclusions from that factoid. For whatever reason the panel isn't jacked up high in the same way, so this minutiae now becomes meaningful.Ĭonsider chlorine gas, what most people think of as an insulator, pulls heat out of buildings 13x better than a copper conduction panel. This esoteric minutiae never mattered much because the rate buildings gave off heat was jacked up high enough (especially with liquid on the floor) that the difference between a refined copper robo-miner and a copper ore light was never material in practical terms. Even with creating more heat, the miner will stay cooler than the light. A refined copper robo-miner is 53x better at giving off heat than a copper ore ceiling light. Buildings with sufficiently high conductivity and thermal mass function just fine with a conduction panel, buildings with insufficient conductivity and thermal mass fail miserably. The underlying issue is that buildings give off heat as a multiple of their conductivity AND their thermal mass (along with temperature delta and conductivity of the other material). That entirely depends on the building you are trying to cool. So basically it doesn`t do much in vacuum which seemed to be it`s intended purpose. I don't even play the game anymore but I was mildly bored. Normally that's a divide by ten, not one million. The math seems to be "Conductivity1 * Conductivity2 * TemperatureDifference * HotterHeatCapacity / 1,000,000". Assuming this is true, then the panel is a hilariously terrible replacement for liquid on the floor. It's so ridiculous that I keep doubting myself. Appears to be the same math as building to cell, but 100,000 times slower. Boo.ģ) Panel building to other buildings. This is problematic, it should "just work" out of the box. The optimal flow rate will likely have to be found with testing for the specific scenario. One can throttle the output to keep the panel full (the panel happily merges into partial packets), but then you are throttling your coolant flow rate which is not ideal. But the panel storage empties immediately and so only gets one tick of transfer per second instead of a pipe's five. Appears to be the same math as radiant or normal pipes, "ConductivityAverage * TemperatureDifference * 10". Should be better than power/automation bridges though.Ģ) Panel building to piped liquid. One would have to test their specific scenario to determine the better solution. In those cases, a conveyor bridge with it's higher mass is superior. However in many cases, this type of heat transfer is actually limited by heat capacity and not conductivity. People may be tempted to use it as a 1x3 "shift plate" because it's made of highly conductive refined metals. ![]() And bugs are still lurking about.Įssentially the panel engages in 3 types of heat transfer:ġ) Panel building to the 3 cells it occupies. A huge disclaimer that this is very preliminary and likely incomplete or maybe even wrong. Putting aside spelunking for bugs, I did a bit of testing on what transfer rates for the conduction panel appear to be. ![]()
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