Steam Boilers and Steam turbines.

[Torigoma]

How many "Inputs" does it take from a Steam Boiler to power a Steam Turbine at 100%? In a Vid, I saw it was 4, but testing it on my own, I need to put close to 10.

On a Side note, how "effective" are Steam Boilers for producing UE, I'm thinking to hooking a Blaze Spawner up to one, but want to know if it would be better to just use the Blaze rods elsewhere.

 

[Mash]

I believe it largely depends on what kind of boiler you're using. A LP boiler puts out half the steam of a HP boiler of the same size.

My 36 HP boiler required 4 connections on the boiler, and two connections to the steamturbine to fully power it. Any less and it loses output.

Spoiler

 

[Malkuth]

Forgot the number myself.. But a turbine takes what 350 Steam or something? I have 4 connections too.. Seems to work for me.

 

[PonyKuu]

320 Steam/tick. I think that's four connections with liquiducts/direct connections.

 

[Omicron]

Liquiducts can funnel up to 160 mB/tick through a connection. Note the specific wording: through a connection. I.e. into the liquiduct or out of the liquiduct. It makes no statement about how much steam fits through the liquiduct (as a gas, it's for all intents and purposes infinite).

Boilers output at 80 mB/t per connection. That means to satisfy the 320 mB/t consumption of the turbine, you need 4 connections.
Powered liquiducts override the boiler's natural output and suck in 160 mB/t. Two connections.
On the turbine, each output does up to its maximum 160 mB/t. Again, two connections.

 

[snooder]

Liquiducts can funnel up to 160 mB/tick through a connection. Note the specific wording: through a connection. I.e. into the liquiduct or out of the liquiduct.

Not to nitpick, but that's not quite true. There's no limit going into an unpowered liquiduct. A powered liquiduct (the one with an arrow) does have the limit you mentioned though.

 

[Omicron]

Is there any way though to insert steam with more than 160 mB/t though? I know a Buildcraft pump can shoot water or lava at mindboggling speeds through a single connection, but for steam I'm not sure you can go above the extraction rate of powered liquiducts.

 

[snooder]

Is there any way though to insert steam with more than 160 mB/t though? I know a Buildcraft pump can shoot water or lava at mindboggling speeds through a single connection, but for steam I'm not sure you can go above the extraction rate of powered liquiducts.

1) Tesseracts
2) Power Converter's Steam producers*

*Granted, I cannot imagine why anyone would do this, but it's a possibility.

 

[Moezso]

I just stick the turbine directly next to the boiler, no pipes needed.

 

[Omicron]

Ah right, tesseracts.

If I stick a tesseract on a boiler, will the boiler continue to only output 80 mB/t into it, or will it actually dump all of its steam in?

 

[Mash]

Ah right, tesseracts.

If I stick a tesseract on a boiler, will the boiler continue to only output 80 mB/t into it, or will it actually dump all of its steam in?

It still only outputs 80 mb/t.

You need 9 connections to fully export a max boiler's steam to a tesseract. Even with a direct connection. That's why you often see a tesseract sitting on top of a 3x3 boiler surrounded by liquiduct connections.

I've tested this by having a single tesseract sit on a boiler, and export steam to a steam consumer. It provided 80 mb/t exactly, meaning that the bottleneck of the boiler output still applies to tesseracts.

 

[snooder]

Ah right, tesseracts.

If I stick a tesseract on a boiler, will the boiler continue to only output 80 mB/t into it, or will it actually dump all of its steam in?

Only 80mB/t. The key is to remember that the tesseract doesn't actually DO anything. It neither pulls from the boiler nor pushes anywhere else. It just transfers at whatever rate the stuff was already flowing. And boilers only pump at 80mB/t per block.

If you are now wondering how a tesseract can get high amounts of steam when a boiler can only put out 80mB unpowered (or 160powered) per connection, imagine multiple input tesseracts going into a single output tesseract. You can get ridiculous amounts of steam into a liquiduct network from a single connection on that single output tesseract.

 

[un worry]

TL;DR
for a 36HP
four powered connections
or nine un-powered

 

[Mash]

TL;DR
for a 36HP
four powered connections
or nine un-powered

To empty the boiler, maybe. To power a single steam turbine you only need four unpowered connections.

 

[RedBoss]

I just stick the turbine directly next to the boiler, no pipes needed.

the simplest answers are the best