Angel's Nitrogen and Oxygen Gas balancer

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Angel's Nitrogen and Oxygen Gas balancer

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Hello,

sometimes someone asks what are combinators good for, so i build also some nice little thingy.

Oxygen and Nitrogen Gas in Angel' Petrochem mod is very cheap but both gases are under some circumstances not used equally.

So i used an arithmetic combinator, which takes Nitrogen Gas times -1 and outputs the amount as Oxygen Gas.
Oxygen Gas tank and the calculated value combined over green wire controls two pumps which feed flare stacks.
If the result is smaller then -10, Nitrogen Gas is flared, if the value is larger then 10, Oxygen Gas is flared and both tanks keep nearly equalso that no chemical plant get stuck.
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Wont this setup cause the flare stacks to trigger unnecessarily? Supposed both tanks are empty and input of oxygen is 4 and nitrogen is 6 while consumption of oxygen is 4. After 2 seconds the difference will be greater than 10 and the nitrogen flair stack will trigger even though the tank is not full.

I did another solution which only triggers if the tank is nitrogen tank is full, but that solution requires more then one combinator.

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No the Angel's recipe is 5 Oxygen to 5 Nitrogen Gas so both tanks are filled equally if empty.

It works really good sometimes as near as only one missing.

Currently I'm working on a 3 tank balancer but it seems i need a lot of combinators for each possible combination.

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i just use a overflowpump connected to each flare. always at 80percent full and always equal.

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walljaik wrote:i just use a overflowpump connected to each flare. always at 80percent full and always equal.
But so the production never stops.

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steinio wrote:No the Angel's recipe is 5 Oxygen to 5 Nitrogen Gas so both tanks are filled equally if empty.

It works really good sometimes as near as only one missing.

Currently I'm working on a 3 tank balancer but it seems i need a lot of combinators for each possible combination.

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In the scenario I described some of the oxygen is used every tick. The net gain each second would be +6 nitro +-0 oxygen. After a couple of ticks the difference would be larger then 10 and nitrogen would start burning even though the nitrogen tank is almost empty.

If we use your scenario:
Production: +5 O / +5 N
Usage: -4 O
Net: +1 O / +5 N

time volume O / N
t0 0 / 0
t1 1 / 5
t2 2 / 10
t3 3 / 15 <---- Difference > 10 next tick we start flairing

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The Draf wrote:
steinio wrote:No the Angel's recipe is 5 Oxygen to 5 Nitrogen Gas so both tanks are filled equally if empty.

It works really good sometimes as near as only one missing.

Currently I'm working on a 3 tank balancer but it seems i need a lot of combinators for each possible combination.

Greetings steinio
In the scenario I described some of the oxygen is used every tick. The net gain each second would be +6 nitro +-0 oxygen. After a couple of ticks the difference would be larger then 10 and nitrogen would start burning even though the nitrogen tank is almost empty.

If we use your scenario:
Production: +5 O / +5 N
Usage: -4 O
Net: +1 O / +5 N

time volume O / N
t0 0 / 0
t1 1 / 5
t2 2 / 10
t3 3 / 15 <---- Difference > 10 next tick we start flairing
Yes you are right.
I could check if the tank is full and flaring needed but currently both gases are equalized through flaring the higher amount down to the lower amount.

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