Steam Boiler and Industrial Steam Engines

[Van_Tastic]

Hi,

I set up a couple of days ago a 36 HP boiler, where I connected all 4 sides with Liquiducts. Now, according to the railcraft wiki each HP boiler face is capable of producing 20 Steam/tick, and since I have all four sides of the boilers connected to Liquiducts, I should be outputting 48 faces*20 Steam/tick=960 Steam/tick. In my setup, I have 20 Industrial Steam Engines which consume 40 Steam/tick according to the same wiki. Now 20*40=800 steam/tick which can be handled by my boiler.

I don't think my maths is wrong unless I'm missing obvious so here are some screenshots of my setup, maybe something is not behaving correctly:

-Boiler:
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/15/1365415899-screen-shot-2013-04-08-at-09-44-41.png
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/15/1365416305-screen-shot-2013-04-08-at-09-45-31.png

-Engines:
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/15/1365416400-screen-shot-2013-04-08-at-09-45-17.png
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/15/1365416577-screen-shot-2013-04-08-at-09-46-05.png
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/15/1365416488-screen-shot-2013-04-08-at-09-52-55.png

 

[hotblack desiato]

each boiler block is capable of 20 steam/tick. with 36 blocks, that equals 720 steam/tick. they don't mean every square of the boiler surface.

and 5 liquiducts are (as far as I read it) sufficient to extract all the steam available.

 

[Van_Tastic]

Ah, I thought that every face could output 20 steam/tick… So now I only have 18 Engines running and they seem to output 8 MJ constantly so far, and as far as liquiducts are concerned I removed them from all the faces but one, so I have 12 of them connected to the boiler just to be extra safe

Thanks for the help !

 

[un worry]

and 5 liquiducts are (as far as I read it) sufficient to extract all the steam available.

... 5 (4.5) if powered with redstone signal, otherwise 9 if un-powered