Name some different Engine set-ups

[Skyflieger]

As I had some fun in the past days with messing with the engine (on a local server of course) I wanted to see what kind of Engine set-ups some of you guys have developed, tested and enjoyed.

[Gangstafary]

The most stable is the phoron one, I haven't really tried another options but once saw someone do it on a N2 setup and that's a big NO

[Pratepresidenten]

I wouldnt say developed, but more as a crazy experiment. Pure oxygen engine. It kept ghosts on their tippy toes of a breakdown, same as the engine, but boy was the power generation GOOD! :^)

[FreshRefreshments]

Have you ever heard the tale of the Zippo engine?

Its not a story the Atmos mains would tell you.

[WickedCybs]

I've seen a carbon dioxide engine attempted before I ended up joining a round. Works seemingly okay at first, though it seems like the gas just gets continually hotter and needs replacement, quickly. Ended up having to replace it with phoron since it was kind of in a loop of barely stable yet quickly becoming an issue again.

As for interesting setups, observe this, courtesy of the engineering discord.

 

[Boggle08]

The one that Cybs posted was my attempt at turning the entire engine room into SM containment. It ran a mixed coolant of N2 and Phoron to minimize crystal waste gas production, and the legion of grey scrubbers you see up top directly filtered out any waste gases that the crystal did produce. I later crammed two extra emitters inside that room, it was safe enough for the machines to be sparking in there. You could light up a cigarette in that room and not have your head catch on fire.

Another project I recommend is putting N2O into the engine for the hot loop. it has the second highest heat capacity of the available gasses, and is an oxidizer, So you have to focus on keeping the ratio of phoron the core produces to a minimum. Else it will start a runaway chain reaction that will leap the temperature up to delamination point.

 

[Xelnagahunter]

On 20/02/2020 at 10:46, WickedCybs said:

I've seen a carbon dioxide engine attempted before I ended up joining a round. Works seemingly okay at first, though it seems like the gas just gets continually hotter and needs replacement, quickly. Ended up having to replace it with phoron since it was kind of in a loop of barely stable yet quickly becoming an issue again.

When you say this, do you just mean CO2 as the hot gas or a setup change? Because I do the former all the time with little to no issue and energy production similar to phoron, just a tad hotter. It never gets out of control unless someone else fucks with it.

[WickedCybs]

13 hours ago, Xelnagahunter said:

When you say this, do you just mean CO2 as the hot gas or a setup change? Because I do the former all the time with little to no issue and energy production similar to phoron, just a tad hotter. It never gets out of control unless someone else fucks with it.

You're right, I've been testing out every viable setup at this point. The problem I faced was just fixing an already underway runaway, which could have been rectified. Next, I need to check whether the co2 setup on the wiki is wrong or not, since that is what the engineers used that one time.

Edited March 20, 2020 by WickedCybs

[Cnaym]

Just remove the SM out of your settup and pour in oxygen as needed. If you start with hot enough phoron it does the entire maxcap game inside your pipes. Brayce and I had a good laugh from that, think Cybs watched on cameras.

Honestly though, 1 to 1 phoron and shoot until you feel it tingling in the monitoring room is what I do nowadays. Legend says you can throw in Oxygen anytime you want as long as you keep the walls from melting. But that is not something for the faint of heart ^^ Zippo engine is a waste compared to the power of oxygen and heated phoron. Then again some races need oxygen to breathe, so not sure how they react to you burning it all for the glory of the engineering department.

[Xelnagahunter]

7 hours ago, WickedCybs said:

You're right, I've been testing out every viable setup at this point. The problem I faced was just fixing an already underway runaway, which could have been rectified. Next, I need to check whether the co2 setup on the wiki is wrong or not, since that is what the engineers used that one time.

MY setup uses 2 cans co2 in the hot loop. Set filters to co2. Perform setup as normal otherwise. 2 phoron cold, 28ish shots. Gets 3MW min.