[1.1.30] Output power of heat exchanger + steam engine depends on orientation.
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 6:18 pm
This is probably a "won't fix", a "minor bug", or "not a bug" – nonetheless I am wondering if I am misinterpreting what I see.
When I use steam engines instead of steam turbines for a nuclear build, the total output power depends on the directionality of the build: north/south or east/west flipping of blueprints gives different results!
Each of these heat exchangers is outputting its steam into a set of steam engines into separated electric networks, their power is consumed by radars: As you can see, the number of actively working steam engines is different.
The different electric networks have a power production of 3.6MW, 5.9MW, or 7.5MW, none of them produce enough power to satisfy the radars, and not as much power as the heat exchanger can maximally provide.
However, I expected to see not more than 3.09MW of power produced by any set of steam engines fed by 103 steam/s, each steam engine consuming up to 30 steam/s and producing a maximum of 900kW.
Is this discrepancy caused by fluid flow directionality? Is it caused by the mismatch in temperatures?
What's going on here?
Save game for reproduction: logfile if anyone cares: Additional information:
This is a minimal vanilla reproduction of an issue I first saw with bob's boilers and steam engines.
When I use steam engines instead of steam turbines for a nuclear build, the total output power depends on the directionality of the build: north/south or east/west flipping of blueprints gives different results!
Each of these heat exchangers is outputting its steam into a set of steam engines into separated electric networks, their power is consumed by radars: As you can see, the number of actively working steam engines is different.
The different electric networks have a power production of 3.6MW, 5.9MW, or 7.5MW, none of them produce enough power to satisfy the radars, and not as much power as the heat exchanger can maximally provide.
However, I expected to see not more than 3.09MW of power produced by any set of steam engines fed by 103 steam/s, each steam engine consuming up to 30 steam/s and producing a maximum of 900kW.
Is this discrepancy caused by fluid flow directionality? Is it caused by the mismatch in temperatures?
What's going on here?
Save game for reproduction: logfile if anyone cares: Additional information:
This is a minimal vanilla reproduction of an issue I first saw with bob's boilers and steam engines.