Try to avoid cross-connecting heat pipes - each one should be a direct line from reactor to heat exchanger, and the only time three or more pipes should meet is if you're branching to feed more than one heat exchanger. Once you do so, you will have exactly twice as much heat produced. You must place them exactly adjacent to each other, with no intervening heat pipes. It's hard to say where the bottleneck is because you haven't shown any of the mouseover info displays for the turbines, exchangers, and pipes, but here's some general advice:įirst of all, your setup is missing the bonus for multiple nuclear reactors. How can I always keep them running at maximum power? Better yet, steam turbines can be linked together like steam engines, but doing this almost always ruins the performance of the turbines. Right now, the exchangers are in the 600+ ☌ range so I should have enough heat to be making steam. My setup includes two nuclear reactors that are connected with heat pipes and are always running to produce enough heat. They appear to consume their steam faster for some reason, and end up only being able to perform at about 60% their potential. When this happens, the turbines fail to continue to run at maximum. I'm able to get my turbines running at maximum efficiency when there is enough power on my grid already, but I am expanding my factory, and my expansion is starting to consume too much power.
#FACTORIO NUCLEAR REACTOR FULL#
If you have 4, they can be in a line with 3 full joins (3x2) + 4 = 10 effective reactors or in a square with 4 full joins (4x2) + 4 = 12 effective reactors. So if you have 2 that share a side thats (1x2) + 2 = 4 effective reactors.ģ that have neighbour bonus is (2x2) + 3 = 7 effective reactors. So to calculate the number of effective reactors: Count the number of partnerships of sides that are 100% shared and multiply by 2 then add the number of reactors. Reactors double effectiveness for each full side they share with another active reactor. It isn't 100% accurate, but it's good enough to start with: (Output capped at the theoretical turbine output, 5.82MW * turbines). Since this is the excess output, add it to your actual consumption during the period to get the full output. Each unit of steam has 0.097MJs of energy, so amount_of_steam * 0.097 / time_in_seconds will be equal to the excess output of your plant. Grab a timer, connect the fluid tanks, wait for a time period you're comfortable with, then disconnect them. If you do have enough, simply disconnecting power until they are discharged and then reconnecting it should show you the actual power output of your plant.Īlternatively, placing a bank of fluid tanks behind your steam turbines will allow them to absorb all the excess steam production which can actually reach them. If you have large banks of accumulators, recharging them provides plenty of load on your grid.Ī single accumulator can draw only 300kW, however, so it will take 134 of them to accommodate a single 40MW reactor (no adjacency bonuses) - not practical if you do not already have large banks of accumulators.
That said, you do not have to actually use all that power to test the output: So I don't think you will be able to find out the practical limit without drawing the power. Water and steam bottlenecks will not become apparent until you actually start using the water and steam.
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