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Tachyon Rhaul
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Posted - 2009.12.05 20:28:00 -
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If you have 2 silo's on a pos, can you link the output of one silo to the input of the 2nd silo so that if the first silo fills up it will start to fill up the 2nd?
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Tau Cabalander
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.12.05 21:56:00 -
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Edited by: Tau Cabalander on 05/12/2009 21:59:31
In my limited experience with silos, that isn't possible.
Silos work simply by X units in and Y units out every tick, where X and Y are constant, not variable. Silos by themselves don't input or output anything though.
I've never tried, so could be wrong though.
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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2009.12.06 11:27:00 -
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Edited by: Lord Fitz on 06/12/2009 11:28:06
Originally by: Tachyon Rhaul If you have 2 silo's on a pos, can you link the output of one silo to the input of the 2nd silo so that if the first silo fills up it will start to fill up the 2nd?
YES yes you can. This is quite common when doing complex reactions so that you can empty the silos less often.
Reactor > Silo 1 > Silo 2 > Silo 3 etc ;) - Silo 3 fills first, then Silo 2, then Silo 1, so you can offline and empty with the reaction still going even if it cycles while you have the silo offline.
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Thinly Veiled
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Posted - 2009.12.12 12:33:00 -
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How about for input silos?
can you put 2 linked silos filled with materials and then to the reactor and it would use the stuff in both?
Silo1(full of reactive 1) > Silo2(full of reactive 1)> Reactor >silo3(Product) (not shown the reactive 2 silo chain, similar to the one for reactive 1)
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Rotnac
Caldari GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.12.12 19:34:00 -
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That should work - the first silo will push stuff to the second and keep it as full as possible, or close to it, until the first silo runs dry. I'd check up on it the first week or whatever though, as I've never setup chained input silos before.
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Gordo Fartis
Caldari 13th Squadron E C L I P S E
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Posted - 2009.12.12 22:48:00 -
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Originally by: Thinly Veiled How about for input silos?
can you put 2 linked silos filled with materials and then to the reactor and it would use the stuff in both?
Silo1(full of reactive 1) > Silo2(full of reactive 1)> Reactor >silo3(Product) (not shown the reactive 2 silo chain, similar to the one for reactive 1)
No pint doing this as all input materials are used on a 100 units per hour so an average silo with 20k capacity has 200 hours of reaction. If you put this together with the fact that the out silos are filled at twice the speed then there no point in filling several input silos in chain as you would have had to visit the POS well before the inputs are empty. It is even worse for final products (except for the carbides and the sylramic fibers) where the silos fill in 80 hours.
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Thinly Veiled
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Posted - 2009.12.13 03:00:00 -
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Originally by: Gordo Fartis
No pint doing this as all input materials are used on a 100 units per hour so an average silo with 20k capacity has 200 hours of reaction. If you put this together with the fact that the out silos are filled at twice the speed then there no point in filling several input silos in chain as you would have had to visit the POS well before the inputs are empty. It is even worse for final products (except for the carbides and the sylramic fibers) where the silos fill in 80 hours.
not true for Polymer reactions, fullerites have a volume of 1 to 10 m3 per unit
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