Hobbyist engine - safe?

[behedwin]

Hey

Is a Hobbyist engine safe to leave running with a constant amount of fuel from charcoal and water from a aqueous accumulator?

Will it explode if it have no machines to power or get full of steam or something?

 

[triblades]

Quote: "otherwise it will explode"

Source: THE INTERNET (or actually, the FTB wiki)
http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Hobbyist's_Steam_Engine

 

[Omicron]

Quote: "otherwise it will explode"

Good source, bad quote. Did you read what behedwin is asking?

True: the hobbyist engine will (like any Railcraft boiler) explode when it runs out of water and then, while still hot, receives more water. However, with an aqueous accumulator present (in the same chunk), this should never happen.

The actual answer: If the engine fills up its internal buffer with energy it cannot output, it will stall, but not explode. You might be able to fix it by whacking it with a wrench or crowbar, but if that doesnt work, you'll need to break it and place it down again in that case.

 

[behedwin]

Thanks

I got the answer that it will explode if my water supply fails.
But should be "safe" since it should not fail

 

[b0bst3r]

The actual answer: If the engine fills up its internal buffer with energy it cannot output, it will stall, but not explode. You might be able to fix it by whacking it with a wrench or crowbar, but if that doesnt work, you'll need to break it and place it down again in that case.

Almost right

The engine will continue to generate MJ but slowly dissipate the internal storage to just above halfway (5680MJ) at which point if it has nothing to power still will continue to generate MJ burning the fuel but will not store it internally. Basically what happens in laymans terms is you heated the engine to dangerous level and now popped a rivet out relieving the steam. But the engine is effectively broken and will continue to burn up fuel (slowly) until you either power it down or break and replace it.

The wrench/crowbar thing will do nothing to the engine to reset it (thermal Expansion engines are affected by wrenching)

 

[triblades]

Good source, bad quote. Did you read what behedwin is asking?

Yes, quote was working as intended. It forces the reader to click the link and read the source well. That should answer the question.

But should be "safe" since it should not fail

Yeah, the tricky part is in chunk loaders when the question is if the water supply gets water to the engine in time or it could potentially bug out. But I've personally never heard it fail in what you are doing.

 

[behedwin]

Well thanks for the link. But it wont make me find the link next time, ill ask on forums since that is how i like it. Then it is up to the others to either link me or tell me or just ignore the post.