50V example build
Contents
Setup
A 50V Heat Turbine generates power by exploiting the temperature difference between a hot place and a cold place. We can use a Stone Heat Furnace to provide the hot side, and some Small Thermal Dissipaters for the cold side
A heat furnace can take up to 2 Combustion Chambers to improve efficiency. A heat furnace can take most solid fuels. Charcoal is a very common solid fuel, so we'll use that here.
We'll hook up a 50V Macerator using Low Voltage Cable.
Driving a macerator
Now the trick is to keep the macerator's voltage supply bar in the green, using the Control Gauge in the heat furnace.
If you do this by hand, that can take quite some work!
See what happens if you add some sand to the macerator. you'll need to adjust the heat. Same when you remove sand.
Listen to the sound the macerator makes. The volume and pitch tell you if the macerator is running at the optimal rate.
Analogic control
Instead of controlling the temperature by hand, you can use an Analogic Regulator to keep it steady.
Use the Temperature gauge to set what temperature you want. 250-300 degrees corresponds to roughly 50V in our case. The Analogic regulator will use the Control gauge to try to keep the temperature as close as possible to the desired temperature (called "set point").
External control
Alternately, we can control the turbine by directly measuring the voltage on the line, and adjusting accordingly.
- Set an Electrical Probe to 100% output at 50V, and 0% output at 55V.
- Don't forget to place a single low voltage cable in the bottom right corner of the probe interface (so that it connects up to the rest of the wire)
- Connect the probe to our furnace using a signal cable
- Set the Heat furnace to accept External Control (click once on the button labeled Internal Control)
This should keep wire voltage neatly at ~50V. Use of External control is important in more complex builds.
Finish
We can expand out our heat furnaces and heat turbines, so that there are 3 in a row This is the maximum that can safely be put on a single wire without over-powering it.
(It can sometimes make sense to add more, but that may need more sophisticated control)
- Heat turbines allow electricity to pass through (so no separate cable required)
- Heat furnaces allow a signal to pass through too (so no extra signal wire needed).
Finally, we add the other machines *needed* to boot Electrical age.
These are, from left to right:
You can consider adding Machine Boosters to make your machines faster,
be careful not to draw too much power though!
Where to go next
In theory, you should be able to make parts for any of the other Examples. At 50V that is going to take some time though.
After you make enough Alloy Plates, Advanced Motors and Advanced Machine Blocks, you can move on to 200V example build.
