Nice video, I'm enjoying the series. A few things I'm curious about: Is there a reason you use 2x active vent instead of powered vents in your custom airlock? Is it a question of space/layout, or a question of the alloy cost of the powered vents? I get that on Venus alloys are very annoying to make due to the lack of accessible volatiles, but I feel like with how often you have to go in and outside it would be worth it. The 2x active vent setup still seems to be limited (one of the vents has flow rate limited due to the pressure in the pipes) and slow. The other thing that I'm not sure about is setting your transformer to 4990 at the end. That would make sense to me if you were feeding the transformer with a light cable, but the input side is a heavy cable. Wouldn't the 10W cost of running the transformer come from the input (heavy cable) side? In which case it should be fine to set it to 5k. If your input side was also a light cable *then* you should set to 4990 max to avoid burning it out. Or is there something I'm missing?
The powered vents are still a bit out of the price range, and they would be great for the decompression part, but the re-pressurization bit they are still limited by the pipe network. The active vents will go faster as the pipe network is expanded because they will have more volume to work with. Transformers pull their power from the output side and they consume 10w, so its a way of accounting for that extra bit of power draw.
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Thank you for the update! I was getting worried
My time is limited, but I try to get them out when I can.
Nice video, I'm enjoying the series. A few things I'm curious about:
Is there a reason you use 2x active vent instead of powered vents in your custom airlock? Is it a question of space/layout, or a question of the alloy cost of the powered vents? I get that on Venus alloys are very annoying to make due to the lack of accessible volatiles, but I feel like with how often you have to go in and outside it would be worth it. The 2x active vent setup still seems to be limited (one of the vents has flow rate limited due to the pressure in the pipes) and slow.
The other thing that I'm not sure about is setting your transformer to 4990 at the end. That would make sense to me if you were feeding the transformer with a light cable, but the input side is a heavy cable. Wouldn't the 10W cost of running the transformer come from the input (heavy cable) side? In which case it should be fine to set it to 5k. If your input side was also a light cable *then* you should set to 4990 max to avoid burning it out. Or is there something I'm missing?
No on the transformer. It draws from the sub network. Not irl, but.
No need for powered vent. Waste of power
The powered vents are still a bit out of the price range, and they would be great for the decompression part, but the re-pressurization bit they are still limited by the pipe network. The active vents will go faster as the pipe network is expanded because they will have more volume to work with. Transformers pull their power from the output side and they consume 10w, so its a way of accounting for that extra bit of power draw.