I built the mining rig and set the settings as listed in the vid. Twice broke off the drill as I found out, the upper rotor is going too slow and by the time it gets round the second half of the hole, the piston has pushed it down far enough, it will brake the drill. I've tested it at .006 (instead of .003) and still broke the drill. I found if you set the upper rotor to 0.10 it will spin the upper rotor fast enough and have no breakage. I've tested it several times now at this speed and it works fine. I use my drill in space and primarily to drill ice. I added a hydrogen engine with an event controller to fire it up when batteries get below 90%. Also added a pair of hydrogen tanks with 2 02 Generators because I can...lol Fills the hydrogen cargo ship up when picking up the ice for delivery. All in all, great design and now that the upper rotor speed has been changed, works perfect. Thx
Ooh, you just gave me an idea to increase their efficiency, depending on your needs. If you want to build one to use as a portable dock: build it out of Large grid, deploy it on ice, have some O2/H2 Generators on the top of cargo, going into a couple Hydrogen Engines, and a couple Hydrogen Tanks and maybe an O2 tank (if you want it, that part is entirely optional) to store the refined gasses. This would work to refill ship batteries (more Hydrogen Engines=Faster charging, so if you use primarily battery powered ships this would still work for those too, you just have to adjust the formula as necessary to your needs). You could place the connector somewhere up high, like on the top of one of the H2 tanks. That way picking up and moving the rig would be easy, and once it's placed it would fully serve it's role as a portable docking station. Ice empty? Just pick the drill up with a ship and relocate. Miner: Large grid, still need the power generation setup, but for this one you could put a Refiner on it, doesn't need to be anything fancy you could go Basic Refinery or if you wanted to go all-out just slap a reg Refiner with max Yield mods. Then you do the sorter-connector gravel dropper to remove any of the gravel the Refineries make, so you squeeze every last drop of resources like Silicate, Iron, and Nickel that you want out of the stone and leave the bare rock behind.
I would use an event controller to stop the drill operation when all containers are at say 99% full with rotating green light set at max settings. This IMHO might be a better signal. I'm currently using this setup. 🥂
Should you wish to save on some PCUs, I would suggest getting rid of the “legs”. Instead use the “convert to station” command when the rig is flown into the right position. I’m also using 1 drill operation mode! 👍🏻
"The Virus" Love It. When I make a miner with a lot of drills on it, I save the drills as a group called "The Fist". I might try this idea, but on wheels for something to collect tons of ice on my home base.
I usually make a cargo truck with a build on site drill packed onto the bed of the truck. I like this drill set-up, though. It will save space for more pistons
reminds me a bit of the large mining assemblages i'd build on site. They used a bunch of timers to do stuff like reverse the pistons and had 1 arm for vertical descent (that did nothing but move super slow) and 1 arm for horizontal reach that very slowly oscillated in and out. as they were bases they were moderately stable and used large blocks.
Man, all of these really great ideas. All i wanna do is swap out the LG for wheels but i have to learn to build a rolling vehicle first. Any chance you could help outwith that?
Are 2 batteries enough to fill up all containers or would you need to resupply them with power at some point? Have maybe a drone only do energy resupply runs :)
@painstudios148 so I tested it out and you just tweak the leg sets of pistons to lower at .003 while the main piston lowers at .002. Only issue is you gotta have it in the air to raise the legs back up cause it's so heavy. Unless I missed a setting.
tbh a make sure the outer spins faster than the inside. once I see it's able to clear the area i turn on the piston. i usually set it to .001m/s to start.
What's an inertia "tensioner"? Also, do you actually know why you set it? And what the crap are you setting Braking Torque for?? Braking Torque ONLY applies when the rotor is OFF. You one of the "Hurr slider goes brrr" crowd? Don't play hard, play smart!
I built the mining rig and set the settings as listed in the vid. Twice broke off the drill as I found out, the upper rotor is going too slow and by the time it gets round the second half of the hole, the piston has pushed it down far enough, it will brake the drill. I've tested it at .006 (instead of .003) and still broke the drill. I found if you set the upper rotor to 0.10 it will spin the upper rotor fast enough and have no breakage. I've tested it several times now at this speed and it works fine. I use my drill in space and primarily to drill ice. I added a hydrogen engine with an event controller to fire it up when batteries get below 90%. Also added a pair of hydrogen tanks with 2 02 Generators because I can...lol Fills the hydrogen cargo ship up when picking up the ice for delivery. All in all, great design and now that the upper rotor speed has been changed, works perfect. Thx
Ooh, you just gave me an idea to increase their efficiency, depending on your needs.
If you want to build one to use as a portable dock: build it out of Large grid, deploy it on ice, have some O2/H2 Generators on the top of cargo, going into a couple Hydrogen Engines, and a couple Hydrogen Tanks and maybe an O2 tank (if you want it, that part is entirely optional) to store the refined gasses. This would work to refill ship batteries (more Hydrogen Engines=Faster charging, so if you use primarily battery powered ships this would still work for those too, you just have to adjust the formula as necessary to your needs). You could place the connector somewhere up high, like on the top of one of the H2 tanks. That way picking up and moving the rig would be easy, and once it's placed it would fully serve it's role as a portable docking station. Ice empty? Just pick the drill up with a ship and relocate.
Miner: Large grid, still need the power generation setup, but for this one you could put a Refiner on it, doesn't need to be anything fancy you could go Basic Refinery or if you wanted to go all-out just slap a reg Refiner with max Yield mods. Then you do the sorter-connector gravel dropper to remove any of the gravel the Refineries make, so you squeeze every last drop of resources like Silicate, Iron, and Nickel that you want out of the stone and leave the bare rock behind.
You could also automate it a bit by setting an event controller to turn on a signal when the containers are full. Well done
That is a brilliant IDEA!
I would use an event controller to stop the drill operation when all containers are at say 99% full with rotating green light set at max settings. This IMHO might be a better signal. I'm currently using this setup. 🥂
Should you wish to save on some PCUs, I would suggest getting rid of the “legs”. Instead use the “convert to station” command when the rig is flown into the right position. I’m also using 1 drill operation mode! 👍🏻
Excellent idea
"The Virus" Love It. When I make a miner with a lot of drills on it, I save the drills as a group called "The Fist". I might try this idea, but on wheels for something to collect tons of ice on my home base.
I usually make a cargo truck with a build on site drill packed onto the bed of the truck.
I like this drill set-up, though. It will save space for more pistons
reminds me a bit of the large mining assemblages i'd build on site. They used a bunch of timers to do stuff like reverse the pistons and had 1 arm for vertical descent (that did nothing but move super slow) and 1 arm for horizontal reach that very slowly oscillated in and out. as they were bases they were moderately stable and used large blocks.
Cool name. It does look like a bacteriophage virus.
Man, all of these really great ideas. All i wanna do is swap out the LG for wheels but i have to learn to build a rolling vehicle first. Any chance you could help outwith that?
that's a good idea
Are 2 batteries enough to fill up all containers or would you need to resupply them with power at some point? Have maybe a drone only do energy resupply runs :)
Very cool idea.
TY
So could you use pistons for the legs that can be lowered when the drill piston gets fully extended to continue to drill further down?
good idea
@painstudios148 so I tested it out and you just tweak the leg sets of pistons to lower at .003 while the main piston lowers at .002. Only issue is you gotta have it in the air to raise the legs back up cause it's so heavy. Unless I missed a setting.
That’s so cool!
thy
Was there some math involved in figuring out your rotations?
tbh a make sure the outer spins faster than the inside. once I see it's able to clear the area i turn on the piston. i usually set it to .001m/s to start.
what´s the speed of piston?
i usually just manually drop it 1.5m every now and then when it's all flattened. but other wise like .005m/s
you could time it for quicker mining speed, or put five drills on instead of one. with a timer block decsend every 40sec with 1rpm
@@painstudios148 nice, thanks
What is your settings on your piston?
.01m/s
@@painstudios148 I tried convert to station mode but the game bugged out on public servers. Looks like the leg is the safer bet :(
Update and the drill exploded so back to basics…
@@eri_c hmmm thats concerning actually
@@eri_c F5 button usually fixes that. however best to turn off if your not online or out of render distance which i believe is like 15km
What's an inertia "tensioner"? Also, do you actually know why you set it? And what the crap are you setting Braking Torque for?? Braking Torque ONLY applies when the rotor is OFF. You one of the "Hurr slider goes brrr" crowd? Don't play hard, play smart!