Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. The little yellow triangle with a "no power" sign in the middle can be very confusing at first. Also, the poles at the top can easily be moved down to reduce vertical size by one.
30/s steam = 900KW. However, if the temperature of the steam exceeds the maximum temperature of the steam engine or turbine, then the power output is capped at maximum, and the extra energy in the steam is wasted. All rights reserved.
You showed the first pic with description of "here's 2 versions of the same builds" when you only shown one build in the pic, and the 2 builds aren't the same lol. Boilers are exactly the same, they will only work when water enters them and they will burn fractions of a coal in order heat that new water. It can be repeated upward, or downward if you shift the bottom poles down.
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Is the single steam engine powering both the radars and the pumps ? They are working at about 10-15% capacity.
I don't know why they aren't producing steam and power now. There are also times between day and night called dusk and dawn which complicate the calculations. They're all like this. Reduces Steam Engine's consumption and power output 1 year, 3 months ago 0.17 220 Power production Download Information Downloads Discussion ... Factorio version: 0.17 Downloaded: 220 times. This is taken from Accumulator / Solar Panel Ratio (which calculates this in an impressive mathematical way!) by Patric20878 » Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:27 am, Post Look at the windows in the pipes, hover over the pipes! by JimBarracus » Wed Sep 11, 2019 5:41 am, Post Replacing these pipes solved the problem. Changelog: In general, nuclear power is produced by the following production chain: Uranium ore is mined and processed to uranium-235 and uranium-238, then uranium fuel cells are created from the two. I literally ended up just making about 60 accumulators and kept the amount of steam engines at that level.
by Cerbsen » Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:28 am, Post You meant each small pump would only supply about half of each row, which is 5, and 15 is 3 half rows of 5 each. by Ranger_Aurelien » Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:38 pm, Post In vanilla factorio, without mods which change any of these values, the optimal ratio will be the same. Try removing some steam engines and your capacity will go up. Power Plants, Energy Storage and Reliable Energy Supply. They have 100 Temp Water at 9.5-10 water constant. Perfect ratio for setting up the steam engines, boilers, and offshore pumps that will last you into mid-game. The first line will get half while the third one down will get like 1/8th. Nuclear reactors are the only notable exception to this rule as they always work if there is fuel. Are there enough steam generators (boilers, heat exchangers)? it has been sometime since i last played the game. There is no need for space between rows, it tiles upward as far as you want, and I guess you could go up to something like 31 adjacent rows with blue belt (310 engines! A reactor without neighbor bonus needs 4 heat exchangers so that all its heat gets consumed. I have a basic steam setup (4 boilers, pipes, steam engine, and power poles leading to the powered items) its producing 0 watts and i dont know why. This means that you need 1.428 MW of production (of solar panels) and 100MJ of storage to provide 1 MW of power over one day-night cycle. "Performance" is the current output, which translates to the current power requirements. Try this checklist before you completely revamp your power source. Steam is also used in coal liquefaction in oil refineries. Since steam is a fluid, it can be stored in a storage tank. any help will be much apprecaited. by Skellitor301 » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:54 am, Post Place some pipes or a tank at the end to see if there is really water coming through. For example to keep the coal miners going at full speed over running assembly machines to run the steam engines in case of low power. Seemed weird though. Great to see that idea put into play really well, Yep, updated the original post with it. Last edited by Fish; Apr 22, 2016 @ 6:29am #3 「GOLD EXPERIENCE」 ... the excess energy stored in the accumilators with comine with steam engine power to push though the waves of bugs. Nearly every energy entity in factorio is perfectly conservative in the fact that they will never overuse or overproduce energy. A "close enough" ratio is 20:24:1 accumulators to solar panels to megawatts required (for example, a factory requiring 10 MW can be approximately entirely powered, day and night, by 200 accumulators and 240 solar panels - this approximation differs from optimal only in that it calls for 20 extra solar panels, which is negligible but remember that the difference between the "close enough" ratio and the optimal ratio increases as you add more solar panels). by Cerbsen » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:04 pm, Post It's entirely possible your pumpjacks simply can't push any more fluid into the pipes, not because of lack of power. My other steam engine rows don't have this problem. they only produce the electricity you need.
A green wire connects the output of E and the input of H. When there is full power, the green and red network sum will be 1 for yellow. Combinator H takes as a condition that YELLOW > 1 and outputs RED with a value of 1. Steam is a gas created by heating water in a boiler or heat exchanger.
As mentioned, your power poles are probably split somewhere. All about efficient energy production. which, given the default time lengths of: day = 12500/60 s; dawn or dusk = 5000/60 s; night = 2500/60 s, and the default: Solar_power = 60 kW; Accumulator_energy = 5 MJ = 5000 kJ, gives the optimal ratio of 0.84 accumulators per solar panel. In other words, a number of turbines or steam engines with steam storage can cope with much higher bursts than the same number of … 1 steam engine max electricity is 510 KW.
The steam production rate can also be calculated using the energy consumption: 1 Heat exchanger consumes 10MW, so it's putting 10,000,000 joule of energy into heating water/steam per second. In designs where everything is connected to each other you can easily run into situations where some turbines aren't running when they should.
This equation could also be used to remember the vanilla optimal ratio given its simplicity. Thanks for helping again - added you to credits. One thing I can see about that layout is the furnaces at the end will be a lower priority when it comes to coal. Reduces Steam Engine's consumption and power output 1 year, 3 months ago 0.17 220 Power production Download Information Downloads Discussion ... Factorio version: 0.17 Downloaded: 220 times. Check if structures have enough electricity - if they do there isn't a problem with your power.
This is a good thing. This is my compact one, low tech (only small power poles, yellow belts and splitters), only two pipe gaps in each row of engines, and I think a single yellow belt should be able to support 10 rows (100 engines), so no need to use red belts. The boiler consumes water to produce steam. jesus christ i dont even play this anymore stop with this thread lol. I like to pair that with 20 or 21 turbines. One offshore pump can supply 20 boilers and 40 steam engines. this means you'll need over 850 panels and almost just as much capacitors to match a single offshore pumps worth of steam engine. Factorio. I think the 3 small pumps can only power 15 steam engines at 100% capacity (29 @ ~50%), because a small pump has only half the water throughput of an offshore pump. Having low performance isn't bad by itself, it means your load isn't high enough to require more output. Is steam able to reach all steam engines? by DaveMcW » Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:06 pm, Post
by ssilk » Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:11 pm, Post
This ratio is. your base probably only use between 51-76 KW. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. by Skellitor301 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:36 am, Post Yeah, it's definitely necessary for priority control, and it doesn't actually store any energy. Total boilers/steam engines in the detector is of course dependent on how many small pumps the detector is powering.
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The optimal ratio of accumulators per solar panel relies on many values in the game. #6. I think the 3 small pumps can only power 15 steam engines at 100% capacity (29 @ ~50%), because a small pump has only half the water throughput of an offshore pump. and another post in that thread (which calculates the solar panel to megawatt ratio in a different way). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.
If the temperature of the steam is lower than the steam engine or turbine can handle, then the power output will be lower than optimal, but no energy will be wasted. I totally overlooked that having 2 radars and 6 pumps instead of 1 and 3 increases the consumption from 390 to 780. Changelog: When there is low power, the numbers become mitchmatched and increases.
One offshore pump can supply 12 heat exchangers. Please help. The point of having the accumulator/radar setup is to speed up response time, not slow it down. When working, it is actually always empty. You are simply not using all the energy that these engines can produce, so they are not working as hard to produce it. See also the applied power math tutorial to answer the question how much coal do I need?
by Patric20878 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:18 pm, Post The steam turbines did work though as far as I can remember. by Mauslag PIngman » Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:27 pm, Post Press J to jump to the feed. It is technically the same build, just yours is more space and resource efficient. A heat exchanger produces 10 MJ a second, therefore it produces 10MJ / 0.097MJ = 103.0927835 steam per second. by Patric20878 » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:29 pm, Post
You can plop down some radars to increase power demand, which will cause the steam engines to produce more power (and thus push up the power demand / maximum power ratio). Please help. Don't know how to use a machine? They produce electricity by consuming steam, using water pumped from an offshore pump that was heated to 165°C steam with boilers or to 500°C steam with heat exchangers. These include the power generation of a solar panel, the energy storage of an accumulator, the length of a day, and the length of a night. They will only use steam to produce the amount of energy required to run your base.
The optimal ratio is 0.84 (21:25) accumulators per solar panel, and 23.8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory (this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators). © Valve Corporation. If the player uses mods which change the power generation of solar panels, or the energy storage of accumulators, but not the length of days, a simplified version of this equation can be used. Or 30 steam = 900KJ. by Patric20878 » Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:49 pm, Post
Link to the thumbnail and original version at, No, you missed my point. Last edited by AlexMBrennan ; Apr 17, 2016 @ 9:23am #3
With the old steam engines I noticed if I put more than two in a line only the first 2 would run so I put in lots of boilers with 2 steam engines on each and that was okay. Each steam engine needs 0.5 boilers when running at full capacity. This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 13:19.
You may also use this to rectify brownouts/blackouts. where game_day is the number of seconds in the game day which is 25000/60 s by default. by Patric20878 » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:02 am, Post
* One small pump provides pressure for 30 water per second. In that build that will warn you about low power, is the accumulator necessary or no?