What makes a boiler explode?

[tobi1449]

Since my boiler now exploded the second time within 1 day does anyone know what can make a boiler blow up?
It hasn't been big explosions (the wiki states that it goes nuclear if it's hot and dry and gets water).
Also after the first explosion I built it with 3 aquaneous acumulators below it, so it shouldn't have ran out of water.

 

[lazaruz76]

You should only need 1 accumulator for the boiler. I have had no problems supplying water to a max size HP with only one. Since there is not enough info to know what the problem itself is, I would suggest the following:

Check all you water connections to ensure there is not a break in the line some where.

Ensure that you have 2 water source blocks on 2 sides of the accumulator.

Other than that I'm afraid I can be of little help to you. If you can get some screenshots of your setup someone should be able to help you troubleshoot you problem.

 

[tobi1449]

As you can see in the screenshots the acumulators were directly below it, so there shouldn't have been any broken connections.
Does a redstone signal change anything for the boiler?
And I can't overheat when it has enough water, right?

Here are the screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/zoHlU

 

[Yusunoha]

Since my boiler now exploded the second time within 1 day does anyone know what can make a boiler blow up?
It hasn't been big explosions (the wiki states that it goes nuclear if it's hot and dry and gets water).
Also after the first explosion I built it with 3 aquaneous acumulators below it, so it shouldn't have ran out of water.

either the boiler ran out of water, and water was added after it ran out, and it exploded, or a creeper came by to say hello.
be sure that you've put the accumulators in the right place, under the boiler often works, that you've supplied them with atleast 2 water sources on the sides, and that you've an output set towards the boiler.

 

[tobi1449]

Oh yeah, I can definitly exclude a creeper since we have mobGriefing disabled

 

[tobi1449]

Does anyone know how much mB a 36HP Boiler consumes per second?
My last idea would be that somehow when the chunk is loaded when I enter the server the boiler is loaded faster than the aquaenous acumulators and eats up it's internal water tank completely.
Then the acumulators get loaded and boom.
I want to try to put a tank inbetween with enough liquid for about 5 secs and see if it fixes the problem.

 

[Eyamaz]

I'm not sure how much they use, but...

Make sure you have the boiler and the accumulator in the same chunk, and keep it loaded with a chunk loader. Several others have had similar issues like this and it seemed to help.

 

[egor66]

Does anyone know how much mB a 36HP Boiler consumes per second?
My last idea would be that somehow when the chunk is loaded when I enter the server the boiler is loaded faster than the aquaenous acumulators and eats up it's internal water tank completely.
Then the acumulators get loaded and boom.
I want to try to put a tank inbetween with enough liquid for about 5 secs and see if it fixes the problem.

that could not happen, if the boiler loaded before the water it would need to be loaded for at least 90 seconds for its internal water to run out, if the internal tank water is out too the boiler must have reset on load, then it would be cold & could not explode.

I have never had one explode but have had a lot of issues with them resetting, I have stopped using boilers for that reason the burn-in is a pain & to costly.

 

[SatanicSanta]

Dividing by zero.

 

[Adonis0]

Were the aqueous accumulators receiving a redstone signal?
I believe they may stop pumping water in when they get a signal, and if the signal was broken for some reason, that's pumping water into a hot boiler.

 

[Harvest88]

Were the aqueous accumulators receiving a redstone signal?
I believe they may stop pumping water in when they get a signal, and if the signal was broken for some reason, that's pumping water into a hot boiler.

That's why I have my "redstone dust" disabled on the GUI that way for any stupid reason the AAs will still work.

 

[Adonis0]

That's why I have my "redstone dust" disabled on the GUI that way for any stupid reason the AAs will still work.

mmm, it'd be nice if the redstone signal was disabled by default on the thermal expansion machines
I am actually yet to use it, but it's messed up a few builds when I forgot to turn it off, and things stopped working suddenly and I had no idea why

 

[Dravarden]

maybe they don't have water on their sides creating an infinite source.

 

[tobi1449]

I definitly had enough water, however the world anchor fixed all those problems (and just created a new one in combination with secretrooms -.-)

 

[Bickers]

I definitly had enough water, however the world anchor fixed all those problems (and just created a new one in combination with secretrooms -.-)

sounds like part of the water supply might have been in a unloaded chunk