Goonhub
02-25-2016, 11:32 PM
Would anyone be willing to share some more information about the engine? I started playing back on devstation when everything was powered by a singularity, but this combustion engine is new to me.
First question. There is a gas sensor in the middle of the combustion chamber. I am interested in observing that sensor's output as I experiment with the engine. Where, if anywhere, is that information displayed?
Secondly I suspect that I'm doing something dumb with the combustion chamber. I tried following ErikHanson's advice, but I've never seen the flames reach that cool blue color depicted in his picture, and the highest I've ever seen power output go is ~11 MW. At that point the pipes burst and despite assurances that it is normal and won't affect the burn, the engine sharply declined in power output until I fixed the pipes. Even then, at the rate it was climbing, I have a hard time imagining that it would have reached a GW much less a TW by the end of the round.
I don't know if I'm running the hot loop through the combustion chamber prematurely, if I should be messing with these auxiliary ports for something other than siphoning off hot gas for traitoring, or if I should using that pressure tank in the upper left of engineering to try to stave off a pipe burst until the hot loop crosses some critical threshold where pipe bursts can no longer slow it down.
I'll keep experimenting on my own, but I would really appreciate it if someone could at least shed some light on that gas sensor.
First question. There is a gas sensor in the middle of the combustion chamber. I am interested in observing that sensor's output as I experiment with the engine. Where, if anywhere, is that information displayed?
Secondly I suspect that I'm doing something dumb with the combustion chamber. I tried following ErikHanson's advice, but I've never seen the flames reach that cool blue color depicted in his picture, and the highest I've ever seen power output go is ~11 MW. At that point the pipes burst and despite assurances that it is normal and won't affect the burn, the engine sharply declined in power output until I fixed the pipes. Even then, at the rate it was climbing, I have a hard time imagining that it would have reached a GW much less a TW by the end of the round.
I don't know if I'm running the hot loop through the combustion chamber prematurely, if I should be messing with these auxiliary ports for something other than siphoning off hot gas for traitoring, or if I should using that pressure tank in the upper left of engineering to try to stave off a pipe burst until the hot loop crosses some critical threshold where pipe bursts can no longer slow it down.
I'll keep experimenting on my own, but I would really appreciate it if someone could at least shed some light on that gas sensor.