Magmatic Engines, Magma Crucibles and Geothermal Generator Help

[Hy Diep]

I have 8 magma crucibles that are being powered by 8 magmatic engines, I am pumping it to a tank and then pumping it out to 52 Geothermal Generators... The problem is that their isn't enough lava being pumped out, is there an easier way to do this?...

 

[Mero]

The engines only produce 4MJ/t

The crucible uses 20MJ/t at max speed. You need 5 engines per crucible to fully power them.

You can do it with less, but it will go much slower. 1 per crucible isn't near enough energy.

 

[Hy Diep]

That isn't really my problem, when I try to pump out the liquid from the huge tank, it takes forever to pump out, is there a way to pump it out faster?

 

[Hy Diep]

Or a better setup to just use this to power a matter fabricator?

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

All of the lava is going to one or two geothermal generators until they get full... like 20 buckets each... then it will flow to the next one. Until then, it will go into the nearest geothermal generator with space. There's no real way to get it to spread out over the entire network unless you have a more balanced setup. Here's a suggestion: Banks of lava generators.

Basically, each 'bank' is three waterproof golden pipes with three geothermal generators on top, on the bottom, and in front. The pipe coming in from the source is from the middle pipe in the back.

Repeat this setup multiple times on different pipes to achieve a much better effect.

 

[RampantPanda65]

If you want to pump it out faster, can't you just add another valve onto the tank and have another set of pipes running from the tank?

 

[tedyhere]

You might want to look into Liquiducts also. I know they pipe steam twice as fast as golden pipes, maybe they work as well on lava

 

[Bagman817]

Unless I'm misunderstanding your screenshot, you're not actually pumping out of the liquid tank, you're splitting your output from the crucibles into both the tank and the geotherms. Is that correct? If so, that's a likely culprit. Also, as mentioned above, that lattice of pipes you have above the geotherms is keeping the ones on the far side of the input to get filled. Go directly from the machines into the the tank, then from the tank to the geotherms. Also, using liquiducts will transport the lava faster, and allow you to have multiple input lines to the geotherms, as they don't connect to each other unless you specifically connect them with a wrench.

Oh, and yes, I'd probably use at least 3 engines per crucible. Good catch, Mero.

 

[King Lemming]

Couple of issues here. You're splitting the initial lava between the tank and the bank of geothermal generators, which can lead to things getting wonky. Condense your setup a bit, and use Liquiducts and you'll have far fewer issues.

There's a reason Liquiducts are more expensive than other pipes, and it's not because I'm mean - they are unquestionably worth it and I do care about balance.

 

[Hy Diep]

Liquiduct piping helped greatly, lava is being pumped out to all the generators, I just am going to need to get some more lava produced xD

 

[Yusunoha]

liquiducts are much better then liquid pipes, though they do require some more work/resources.
but you always need to be careful when you pipe liquid to numerous points, it can be quite difficult to get all the liquid spread out evenly