Category:Shaft Power

Shaft Power is a way to transmit kinetic energy between devices.

Shaft power can only be transmitted along the x and z axis, there is no way to route shaft power vertically.

Blocks with Shaft Power interfaces

• Generator - allows conversion from shaft power to electrical power
• Steam turbine - converts steam (up to 7.2B/s) to shaft power
• Gas turbine - burns fuel to create shaft power (like an engine)
• Joint - allows connecting devices together in a line
• Joint hub - allows connecting devices together in any x/z direction
• Flywheel - stabilizes the rotational speed of the shaft by introducing potential energy.
• Tachometer - allows one to monitor the rotational speed of the shaft by converting a range to a signal output wire

It is worth noting that there is some "lag" to the steam turbine's response, when you add more steam, it takes a while to exhaust an internal buffer of steam, and thus it is not advised to limit shaft rotational speed with input fuel/steam alone, but with a properly configured rheostat/generator combination, or a very well calibrated PID.

Trivia

• Shafts will explode at 1,000rad/s
• Generators and Turbines will sound different at different rotational speeds and loads
• Shafts tend to start rotating slowly, and increase rapidly once above 400rad/s. Be prepared for some interesting performance curves, depending upon your input turbine style
• Flywheels will cause your shaft to begin rotating very slowly. Be prepared to dump lots of power into the generators to start shafts with flywheels
• When removing a device, the shaft will not change speed, but if you add a device, it will instantly set the rad/s to 0, for all attached shaft devices
• While all devices have mass, the Flywheel has 100kg, and most other devices (joints, generators, turbines, tachometers) have a shaft mass of 0.5kg by default