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I've found steel furnaces to be much faster than stone furnaces, this corresponds with the crafting speed that's twice as high.
While steel furnaces have the same high crafting speed, I've timed them to take 14 seconds to craft iron or copper plats.
I specifically made sure that my boilers are filled up with coal.
Production is 3.5MW, with 4 steam engines powered by 2 boilers, each their own water pump.
Satisfaction hovers around ~15%, don't know what that means.
I didn't notice any power outages when timing the craft speeds.

So it seems that for some reason my electric furnaces are 4 times slower than my stone furnaces, when they're supposed to be twice as fast.
What could be going on here?
Do I need to make a video comparing the different furnaces?

Roodvlees wrote: Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:15 pm Satisfaction hovers around ~15%, don't know what that means.

It means that you produce 15% of the power needed for the electric furnaces to run at full speed. If you post a screenshot of you steam setup or your save file we can tell you what you did wrong.

I always thought that steel and electric furnaces had the exact same smelting speed, assuming a constant supply of coal for one and electricity for the other, and was always partial towards electric powered by nucldar. but this makes me wonder:

1) Are they really *supposed* to have the same speed?

2) Does using a fuel that is better than coal increase the smelting speed? Or is the only difference that it lasts longer?

I now have visions of running a steel smelter on nuclear fuel

zOldBulldog wrote: Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:54 pm I always thought that steel and electric furnaces had the exact same smelting speed, assuming a constant supply of coal for one and electricity for the other, and was always partial towards electric powered by nucldar. but this makes me wonder:

1) Are they really *supposed* to have the same speed?

2) Does using a fuel that is better than coal increase the smelting speed? Or is the only difference that it lasts longer?

I now have visions of running a steel smelter on nuclear fuel

Yes, no and yes respectively. Although it has been proposed and it would be cool if better fuel sped up smelters, burner inserters, burner miners, etc. like vehicles.

Always make sure your Satisfaction is 100%. Another way, is just hovering your mouse over any power pole, and checking the power meter is at 100% constantly.

lol @ a burner inserter on nuclear fuel

evopwr wrote: Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:51 pm Always make sure your Satisfaction is 100%. Another way, is just hovering your mouse over any power pole, and checking the power meter is at 100% constantly.

lol @ a burner inserter on nuclear fuel

I must just dot for the LOLs. Especially because I typically moved on to another game before making nuclear fuel. So it would be quite ironic that my first use would be to feed a burner inserter

Thanks guys, this has solved the problem.
I do regularly run out power now.
Guess I just have to build more capacity so I have some redundancy.
Should probably build around 50% extra to keep building for a while.

Guess I just have to build more capacity so I have some redundancy.

One of us.