[General Railcraft Question] Industrial Steam-Engines and overheating.

[Talonar]

I have been cautious enough early on [and still am practicing caution] to avoid letting my engines run [past green especially--] when I'm not able to baby sit them. However, I did a 'stress' test decided to leave them alone for a while. I had my base wired with my power sources (Industrial Steam-Engines hooked up and running at max) and the wires extended out a bit far [maybe about 30+ from power source to the nearest MJ using machine].

Now, It has been three days, using the power within my base here and there. My Redstone Energy cells have mostly been topped off at 100% [600000 mj] and I have not overheated or had any critical failures, am I just lucky in never having needed to turn my engines off? I do use these things for major projects [quarry's, Refinery's, major landscape changes, ect Just was a odd week and didn't need anything major done]. Or are these engines able to run as long as they are connected to 'any' output source [Like a Redstone engine] regardless of power being used or not? [in this case Redstone Energy Conduits]

 

[OmegaPython]

Industrial Steam Engines cannot explode. Nor can Redstone Energy Conduits. The only part of that build that can explode is a boiler, and one aqueous accumulator should keep it satisfied.

 

[Freakscar]

[in this case Redstone Energy Conduits]

Those are the ones saving your engines (does not matter at all, which engine you use), as they "eat up" the excess that would normally overheat your engines. As long as you use the power, it is transferred through the conduits with a loss of 5% - as soon as you do not use any power, the conduit simply vaporizes 100% of the produced energy into thin air. =) I'm using the ISEs myself for my boiler and trust me, as long as they are connected to RECs, they will never explode.

 

[Talonar]

Those are the ones saving your engines (does not matter at all, which engine you use), as they "eat up" the excess that would normally overheat your engines. As long as you use the power, it is transferred through the conduits with a loss of 5% - as soon as you do not use any power, the conduit simply vaporizes 100% of the produced energy into thin air. =) I'm using the ISEs myself for my boiler and trust me, as long as they are connected to RECs, they will never explode.

Never knew that about REC's, honestly. Thanks for the info.

 

[Norfgarb]

Careful with the combustion engine though that one can still explode if you don't keep it cool with water or another coolant.

 

[slay_mithos]

Most engines can explode, given the right circumstances, but the railcraft steam engines can not.
If they overheat, they will just shut down for a time.

I guess you could theorically make the hobbyist steam engine explode, if you feed it water once it enters that "tooo hot" phase, but why would you feed it water if you feed it steam anyway?

 

[YellowMiner]

Most engines can explode, given the right circumstances, but the railcraft steam engines can not.
If they overheat, they will just shut down for a time.

I guess you could theorically make the hobbyist steam engine explode, if you feed it water once it enters that "tooo hot" phase, but why would you feed it water if you feed it steam anyway?

They can explode

I made explode a industrial steam engine by using it to power a pipe pump (aka wooden waterproof pipe).

I don't know about effects of overheating of these engines, but using them on machines using less power than they produce make them explode (redstone energy conducts should solve the problem, like it have been said earlier).