Nice, just remember that batteries will discharge faster in the cold Martian nights. So ya just need to build a shed around those batteries, which I assume your are already planing to do. I would also recommend a little bit of climate control to make sure they do not get too warm. Although I believe, they are more temperamental with cold rather than heat. As for your automation ideas, I would agree, just turn off and on the large transformer for your cut-off/on. I have my sub-station set so that it will Cut-On when the batteries are over 90% charged, and it will Cut-Off when the batteries are at 5%. I found that with my set up using 8 batteries, at 5% it will still have enough power to keep all the automation and cooling powered until the next storm. Your set up should work fairly well, if it works like mine does, then the bases batteries should stay at 100% charged for a long time. You also have solid fuel generator for back up power in case of emergencies.
Yep there will be a structure built round the batteries soon. Hopefully get it all finished off in the next few episodes, however the very next one will be dealing with the update. Least I wont have to worry about how much coal I have stored now going forward as it will be the last resort.
Hey dude, thanks for stopping by, hopefully I havnt butchered your design too much. Ok that would make sense. And I'm guessing if I needed a high pressure and lower temp I would just use the radiator bleed to lower the temp down to the desired for the tank and furnace?
@@paxotheviking218 It's only butchered if it doesn't work. I will be interested to see your custom modifications. Getting the temperature down is the real problem with the design. Smelting something else to lower the temp before adding the materials for the alloy is the quickest way. I usually start from a low temperature. Set the temperature and pressure you need, then smelt a lot of low temp ore, gold, copper, lead, until the furnace starts venting. This will tell you that the pressure will be right when you heat it up. Then add the ingerdients for the alloy and then turn on the gas. When it hits temp, the pressure should be good.
Yea that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how to do it yet but I vision the program being able to auto input gas and ignite when more temp/pressure needed. As well as maybe introducing a coolant pipe into the rear tank that could be auto activated when the temp needs to come down. We shall see.
Nice, just remember that batteries will discharge faster in the cold Martian nights. So ya just need to build a shed around those batteries, which I assume your are already planing to do. I would also recommend a little bit of climate control to make sure they do not get too warm. Although I believe, they are more temperamental with cold rather than heat.
As for your automation ideas, I would agree, just turn off and on the large transformer for your cut-off/on. I have my sub-station set so that it will Cut-On when the batteries are over 90% charged, and it will Cut-Off when the batteries are at 5%. I found that with my set up using 8 batteries, at 5% it will still have enough power to keep all the automation and cooling powered until the next storm.
Your set up should work fairly well, if it works like mine does, then the bases batteries should stay at 100% charged for a long time. You also have solid fuel generator for back up power in case of emergencies.
Yep there will be a structure built round the batteries soon. Hopefully get it all finished off in the next few episodes, however the very next one will be dealing with the update.
Least I wont have to worry about how much coal I have stored now going forward as it will be the last resort.
If you raise the temperature setting to match what is in the furnace, the target pressure will be recalculated down to what you want.
Hey dude, thanks for stopping by, hopefully I havnt butchered your design too much.
Ok that would make sense. And I'm guessing if I needed a high pressure and lower temp I would just use the radiator bleed to lower the temp down to the desired for the tank and furnace?
@@paxotheviking218 It's only butchered if it doesn't work. I will be interested to see your custom modifications.
Getting the temperature down is the real problem with the design. Smelting something else to lower the temp before adding the materials for the alloy is the quickest way.
I usually start from a low temperature. Set the temperature and pressure you need, then smelt a lot of low temp ore, gold, copper, lead, until the furnace starts venting. This will tell you that the pressure will be right when you heat it up. Then add the ingerdients for the alloy and then turn on the gas. When it hits temp, the pressure should be good.
Yea that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how to do it yet but I vision the program being able to auto input gas and ignite when more temp/pressure needed. As well as maybe introducing a coolant pipe into the rear tank that could be auto activated when the temp needs to come down. We shall see.