Big reactors RPM?

[Chemomancer]

So a few weeks back I was having an issue involving big reactors turbines. I cannot get my turbine to play nicely with my reactor.

My setup:

5x5 reactor with a single, centered fuel rod, 3 tall. Produces 1800mB/t Steam

2 extra utilities transfer nodes (liquids), and pipes transferring the steam to the turbine at 1000mB/t each (2000mB/t in total), I have the same setup transferring the same quantity of water from the turbine to the reactor

I have a pair of extra utilities transfer nodes (liquids) disconnected from the reactor, used only to fill the system initially

my turbine is a 7x7x16 turbine. It has a rotor consisting of 9 turbine rotor shafts, each with 8 blades on them (9x8=72, each blade handles 25mB/t steam, so 72x25= 1800mB/t, the same as the reactor's output). Finally, it has a coil consisting of 2 fluxed electrum blocks (handle 20mB/t each), and 32 enderium blocks (handle 55 mB/t each) ( (2x20)+(32x55) = 40 + 1760 = 1800mB/t, same as the reactor's output).

In theory, this means that it should be a closed system, in which the reactor produces 1800mB/t steam out of water, while the turbine simultaneously produces 1800mB/t water out of steam (along with power).

And now the problem... the turbine will not spin up any faster than 52RPM, and it takes AGONIZINGLY long even to get there! Anybody know what I might be doing wrong? What factors influence turbine speed?

 

[adamich]

Is your turbine spin faster if you press button "turn off coil"?
Is steam level in turbine and in reactor is 6200?
Try add some water in your system, about 20-30 buckets.

 

[MacAisling]

Unless you are playing with a major output boost in the configs, there is no way you are getting that much steam out of that reactor. Under the default configs, with the fuel rods surrounded by air you could expect around 290 mb steam/t, surrounded by chryothium, you'd get around 730 mb/t.

It would help us help you if you can post screenshots of the open gui for both the reactor & the turbine while the system is running.

You generally need 8 fuel rod blocks surrounded by a good coolant to get 2000 mb/t out of a reactor.

 

[HeroWing2]

So. If you have a 5 5 3 reactor means you have a 3 3 1 hollow inside of that reactor and the highest Output i got 8 fuel rods in the middle gelid cryrotheum gave me only 1.700 MB of steam also Try Out speed Upgrade for Transfer

 

[Chemomancer]

So. If you have a 5 5 3 reactor means you have a 3 3 1 hollow inside of that reactor and the highest Output i got 8 fuel rods in the middle gelid cryrotheum gave me only 1.700 MB of steam also Try Out speed Upgrade for Transfer

I actually sat through an hour video on youtube and discovered that yes, I needed the speed upgrade, I just came back and saw the same response here X3

It is now working PERFECTLY and sitting at a nice 1775 RPM now... thanks!