This has come up a couple times and I decided to make a chart. The trick is to make sure that no one pipe segment exceeds 300m/3. In the example below, you can see that we never exceed 120m/3 on any single pipe segment. Nothing is overclocked or underclocked.
Posted Feb 20, 2020, 11:06 PM UTC
How do you validate that it's not exceeding 300m^3/s? Is there an issue with length?
Really, it's just math. The extractor is 120m/3, subtract 45m/3 for the first generator leaving you 75m/3, etc. The length of the pipe doesn't make a difference.
It's not really that hard to figure it out. You may basically just connect 2 at the beggining and third extractor after first 2 powerplants and then, or you could connect that third to the back of the pipe. There are many possibilities.
Correct. This isn't the only layout that works. For example, you could have two extractors at one end of the pipe and one at the other. In that example, no segment would exceed 240m/3. Such possibilities!
Setup like this is very eady when you build facility right on the water. However, when you start to bring water for a longer distance, things starts to get tricky and try to reduce amount of pipes. Then setup 2+1 one extractor per pipe wins.
Yea, I wouldn't want to have three pipes at only 120m/3 going 500 meters when only two would work.
This is a nice layout, GG on working 8 generators off 3 extractors
I actually saw someone else do it and had to figure out how it worked. I'd give them credit if I remembered who it was.
I'm doing the same thing with 16 generators and 6 pumps! I'm feeding all 16 generators with a single pipe manifold fed by 3 240/m pipes (2 120/m extractors per pipe).
Yep, that's almost exactly the design I use, although I've found it's not necessary to be super-precise about the water extractor intake placements. As long as they're reasonably spaced out along the long feeder-pipe, it works fine.
Yea, there are all sorts of variations that would work.
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Use some shards and you can feed 6 generators with just one water pump...
Yes, but that's not very power-effective, moreso when you are trying to PRODUCE power. AFAIK anything overclocked to 200% uses 50% more power than two of the same machines at 100%. I do the opposite and use 3 pumps (underclocked to 90m3/min) for 6 generators. Compared to 1 pump at 200%, my 3 pumps use HALF the power for the same flow.
You're right, I'll use some more power, but that's the cost for a more simple organisation (and depending on where you build your base you may not have infinite room for water pumps placement !).
And after doing some maths, it gives you a net production of 68MW per Generator in your system against 63MW per Gen in mine. I'll pay the 5MW for a simpler system, no doubt.
This is knida how I set up my Aluminum Scrap refineries and recycled the water back in