Goonhub
02-27-2016, 12:21 PM
I think what erikhanson is trying to say is that the hellburn is "easier" because it will be mostly self-sufficient from that point forward. With a more tame burn like a furnace burn, you'll need to be periodically replacing the fuel in the engine or babysit the hot loop pressure to prevent engine death from a pipe burst. There is more overhead to starting up erikhanson's hellburn procedure, but it's not that much of a difference.
The recommended burn mix pressure should last you about an hour before you'll need to replace a canister. That should be enough for most rounds, and the 100% full SMES cells should last you a good deal beyond that point.
That said, all this talk about hellburns has made me realize that "how to engine" goes beyond setting up the engine and on to responsible usage of the engine.
It's satisfying to sit around chuckling about "MORE POWER" like Tim the Toolman Taylor, but the result of all that power is indeed a safety hazard.
The most obvious threat to the crew is the PTL laser. At high power it can instantly vaporize a man. How does the station and the admin staff view high powered PTL lasers? Is it something to be frowned upon and reserved mostly for the traitorous, or are the safety doors considered adequate safety measures and anyone who disables those safety measures to walk into the laser deserves the consequences of their actions? My personal approach as the CE for my few GW-TW burns was to warn the crew to exercise caution around the laser, and I moved the reinforced tables in the checkpoints near the laser west a square so that the crew could toggle the PTL doors to allow safe passage.
Another hazard is the power within the grid itself. Obviously hot wiring the engine directly into the power grid is a terrible terrible thing to do and something that non-traitors should never do. However I was surprised last night when I bumped into a grille and was instantly killed (for a little over 2 billion burn damage according to goonhub).
I thought that the electrified grilles on the station were drawing power from the comparatively safe output from the SMES cells. I was also wearing insulated gloves at the time, and I'm not sure what happened. My thoughts for potential explanations are:
1: Somebody snuck into the engine and hotwired it when I wasn't looking.
2: An arc of electricity from the engine hit a power grid wire and temporarily boosted the station's power level and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time (is this a thing that can actually happen?)
3: The grille in question was overlooking the engine. Perhaps they are directly wired into the engine by default?
I got quite a laugh out of my shocking demise, but I am thankful that it looks like nobody else got zapped for 2 billion damage that round. I'm going to go out of my way to make sure that those grilles stay protected with glass because I'd prefer the safety hazards of my engine to stay confined to engineering and not overflow into the station proper.
The recommended burn mix pressure should last you about an hour before you'll need to replace a canister. That should be enough for most rounds, and the 100% full SMES cells should last you a good deal beyond that point.
That said, all this talk about hellburns has made me realize that "how to engine" goes beyond setting up the engine and on to responsible usage of the engine.
It's satisfying to sit around chuckling about "MORE POWER" like Tim the Toolman Taylor, but the result of all that power is indeed a safety hazard.
The most obvious threat to the crew is the PTL laser. At high power it can instantly vaporize a man. How does the station and the admin staff view high powered PTL lasers? Is it something to be frowned upon and reserved mostly for the traitorous, or are the safety doors considered adequate safety measures and anyone who disables those safety measures to walk into the laser deserves the consequences of their actions? My personal approach as the CE for my few GW-TW burns was to warn the crew to exercise caution around the laser, and I moved the reinforced tables in the checkpoints near the laser west a square so that the crew could toggle the PTL doors to allow safe passage.
Another hazard is the power within the grid itself. Obviously hot wiring the engine directly into the power grid is a terrible terrible thing to do and something that non-traitors should never do. However I was surprised last night when I bumped into a grille and was instantly killed (for a little over 2 billion burn damage according to goonhub).
I thought that the electrified grilles on the station were drawing power from the comparatively safe output from the SMES cells. I was also wearing insulated gloves at the time, and I'm not sure what happened. My thoughts for potential explanations are:
1: Somebody snuck into the engine and hotwired it when I wasn't looking.
2: An arc of electricity from the engine hit a power grid wire and temporarily boosted the station's power level and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time (is this a thing that can actually happen?)
3: The grille in question was overlooking the engine. Perhaps they are directly wired into the engine by default?
I got quite a laugh out of my shocking demise, but I am thankful that it looks like nobody else got zapped for 2 billion damage that round. I'm going to go out of my way to make sure that those grilles stay protected with glass because I'd prefer the safety hazards of my engine to stay confined to engineering and not overflow into the station proper.