Hey guys! I know this question may sound stupid for pro players in here but I'm still figuring out how mechanics work in this game. So, is there ways to improve engine cooling? Let's say I want my medium diesel engine to run at above 20 rps without overheat and explode. Thank you so much!
First time poster, long time lurker. Inspired by /u/onechordbassist in the topic about Birds of Prey moving their wings, I started to seriously wonder if there was available information on how ships in Star Trek get rid of their engine heat?
I know that Star Trek isn't the most "Hard Sci-Fi" show, but aside from some busted hoses and steam during an engineering disaster, when have they addressed how a ship with a warp core that powerful distributes the inevitable heat coming from it?
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/basicdesign.php#radiators
From reading that site (great place, btw) there are a lot of potential types of radiators and heat sinks, none of which are obvious. Since I've never seen a single ship that has a visible external radiator, I'm forced to think they either have an internal cooling system (like a refrigerator, just amped up to insane levels) or a heat sink that can somehow hold an immense amount before being vented at a safe time.
I'm not the smartest guy, but my working theory is that there's probably a coolant that's rotated around parts of the ship that generate a lot of heat, such as the warp core and phaser bays, and that now-heated mixture would travel through a series of pipes. This gives an opportunity for the ship to have steam generators which would bring the coolant temperature down while providing power for some of the lesser functions like displays, hot water for bathrooms, etc. I can't imagine Starfleet just throwing that potential energy out into space without capturing what they can. Does anyone have canon information about this?
https://i.imgur.com/qN8pHDG.jpg Cooling fan*
I know this is a fairly frequent topic, I really quite like the versatility of modular engines and I also like having engines that rev a bit more. I absolutely despise playing this game with "optimal" engines that operate at what, 6 RPS? You can barely hear them, to me it completely and utterly breaks any immersion.
The modular engines are fun to set up and tinker with, up until the point you get to cooling. It seems like no matter what or how I set up cooling - they will always accumulate heat until they start overheating.
Whenever I've used the normal diesel engines on boats I've used a liquid-liquid cooling system to great effect, this same system on a modular just does not work - no matter the size or how many pumps I add.
I've tried having more separate loops, each with their own cooling system and manifold. It just won't work.
Are they bugged? Poorly balanced? Or is this just the overall design of the game? To have all engines operate at such low RPS's that they sound as if they're about to choke any second?
I have since stopped using modular engines entirely, they're simple not worth the hassle when it comes to the cooling. Always the same issue. :/
For quite some time now I have been having a hard time with cooling modular engines. Most recently I have been working on a VTOL and using two 2 cylinder 3x3 engines. When flying at 20 RPS in hover mode, the temps stabilize at around 78C, when in plane mode the engines will overheat. I am using 2 cooling manifolds each with a 5x5 radiator PER CYLINDER and it still will not stay cool. I am also getting around 40 L/S of flow through each loop.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Here is the link to my boat. Spent about 2 days troubleshooting my cooling. Can someone please take a look and tell me what I am doing wrong?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2625244204
I have a 4-cylinder 3x3 engine for a ship. It works great but it needs better cooling. Right now, it uses 12 large electric radiators, but the heat shoots up above 5 RPS, meaning the ships is pretty slow. Can these be cooled effectively or is this just a waste of time?
some people suggested that I upload and put the link here for the boat with the engine in question along with the post so here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2626555674 please fix the dam cooling and extra points if you can make the ship go faster.
So, i have 26 radiators linked to my engine, 6 of which are underwater and i can't have my engine at more than 65% or else it catches fire. Does anyone know what to do?
I have a small twin 14-cylinder engine setup for a boat I have which has two medium freshwater tanks as coolant for each engine. I have them piped like this: tank >> modular fluid pump >> coolant manifold >> electric radiators >> tank
The problem is there seems to be 0 fluid flow when I check the coolant manifold and I've got the modular pump connected to a constant number (1) logic and tried changing up the pipe connections from input to output and still getting no flow...
Here's some images of my engine: https://imgur.com/a/4A681Lb
I'll keep this short:
- Red Bull has been poaching Mercedes Engine experts over the season and made a curious inquiry with the FIA in September that could only have come from inside sources: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mercedes-dismisses-special-solution-amid-red-bull-fia-engine-query/6659984/
- The FIA ruled in October that they are not going to do anything about the complaint: https://www.planetf1.com/news/red-bull-mercedes-trick-complaint-quashed/
- Bottas' engine penalties in Italy and Russia (Both in September), indicate Mercedes was testing something with new Engine materials or similar.
- Mercedes has seen to be MEGA in FP1 (Before the engine map settings are frozen for the weekend) and later found to be super slow. Again, like they were testing something with the engine.
Conclusions and Speculation:
- Mercedes are indeed doing something to super cool the air going into the ICE and have figured out a way to represent the temperature in the plenum differently to the sensor, thus defeating the checks.
- This can be inferred through their odd choice in only swapping the ICE components of their power unit, while maintaining the other parts as the same. The power increase from just an ICE change are astonishing to say the least in the middle of a season.
- If, as others have speculated, this is purely done with the aim to "increase reliability", that would not hold up to scrutiny, since new engine materials that help tolerate higher combustion scenarios while rated for a shorter lifetime mileage is not a reliability upgrade, but a performance upgrade. The technical delegate has the liberty to refuse to entertain a change with a performance gain in mind if it can be proven that the power unit has additions that lower the mileage and increase perf as many members of Mercedes have represented to the media.
- The curiosity with the sensor in the plenum is very odd. The FIA has not done anything here, especially seeing how these checks are impossible to be done in the middle of a lap when the actual readings are made. I'd expect them to take this up more aggressively now that we see a ridiculous power boost down the straights for the Mercedes engine in Hamiltons car WHILE STILL CARRYING MONACO LEVELS OF DOWNFORCE.
tl;dr: Mercedes waited for a rul
... keep reading on reddit β‘usually when reading about cars im told that this next generation model has vents that allow for better cooling of the engine which leads to better performance, im wondering why cooling some machinery allows it to preform better and if this is a universal thing or if some things run better when hot
I know the answer to this. I'm just curious what you all have to say. In an argument with another poster here and I'd just like to poll you all.
I'm trying to build my first modular engine after a long hiatus of this game. A first issue is that I cannot get it to cool, I'd prefer to not use seawater, for longevity reasons. Is cooling still bugged? If not, what do i need to do to prevent overheat?
Second, how do i optimize the performance of an engine? Is there some way to increase performance by increasing air/fuel flow? Or would this mainly be in the gearing department.
Replaced the thermostat and water pump and im slowly getting the coolant replaced. I have the bleeder valve open and the resevoir is slowly bubbling but nothing is coming out of the valve and the upper coolant hose isnt firm at all even well past operating temp.
Im assuming I need to keep going but shutting the engine off every 10 minutes for another 15 mins before resuming is making this take forever.
Are these two systems linked?
Last year, just before summer ended, the a/c started blowing warm air. Out of two vents, warm air. The far left vent, no air. Far right, a little air, but warm. Only one vent would blow out cold air, but not much. I didn't pay it any mind because winter was coming.
Fast forward to this year. It's been especially hot, and now the cylinder temperature fluctuates between 199Β° and 225Β°. 225Β° is the hottest it has gotten, and I started driving with the heat on. The engine gets hotter when the hot air isn't blowing, and especially in traffic jams on the road. The whole summer, I've been driving with the heat on, just to keep the engine between 199Β° and 207Β°, but even with the heat on, the temperature slowly climbs. I drove 90 miles today, and at 70mph, and high heat, the engine stayed at 207Β°.
I've gotta do something, but I'm not sure what. I've got no check engine lights. My first question... Is the cars ability to cool itself down connected to the a/c. My assumption is no, and that they're separate systems. My second question is, where should I start working? My primary concern is the engine. It doesn't seem normal to me that the engine should fluctuate between 199Β° and 225Β°. 225Β° is the highest I've read it at because once I start to see that temperature, or really anything above 205 I start blasting the heat to get some of that hot air out of the engine. I can live with no a/c right now, but the engine cooling system, I need that.
I checked the coolant and it's half full. Could it be the radiator fan? Final note, when I drive with the heat on, I hear a whirring sound as I accelerate, but at higher speeds, I don't hear it, presumably because the car is louder.
Any input would be nice, and I'd be extremely grateful. The car is a 2015 V6 with 74,000 miles. Thanks for your time.
Anyway - I have a boat. I have configured its powerplant to get it to 50kph (the speed of the starter RHIB), but no matter what cooling methods I try, the engine temp simply continues rising and does not stop until breakage.
My base engine contains 12 interconnected pistons (3 per crankshaft), flywheel, clutch, drivebelt, one starter, one fluid pump, two alternators. Air, fuel, and exhaust enter/exit through one manifold each (I don't know why you would ever need more than one air/fuel manifold). Air/fuel ratio is a constant 50% (M = 0.5*A).
Engine power is routed to one large propeller and two small impeller pumps, one for fuel input, one for seawater.
The freshwater coolant system is routed as such:
modular engine pump -> 3x3 liquid-liquid exchanger (A in/out) -> modular coolant manifold -> small tank -> pump
The seawater coolant system is routed as such:
liquid intake -> fluid filter (freshwater/seawater) -> impeller pump -> 3x3 liquid-liquid exchanger (B in/out) -> fluid port
With this setup and with my corresponding gearbox settings, I achieve a top speed of +-50kph at an RPS of 30-35. All attempts to cool further (i.e. radiators, heat sinks, etc), all achieve the same constant rise in temp, albeit slower sometimes. Looking at the temp readouts in the liquid-liquid heat exchanger, the seawater temp appears to remain the same while the freshwater temp exhibits a constant rise.
I would like some recommendations to amend this issue - perhaps even some specific recommendations as to what parts to attach where in the loop. I don't think I have had this problem before but my efforts currently seem to be futile. Looking up further information on Google gives me answers that don't work, and the fact that this game has a playerbase tells me that there is a way to solve this issue.
Important update: Daisychaining 6 3x3 LL exchangers has successfully ensured that the freshwater and saltwater temperatures are now stable at around 6 deg C. The engine temperature, however, continues to rise as it always has. Previously, I have believed that my coolant system has been arranged incorrectly, but now I suspect that the procedural engine coolant manifold simply does not work and does not affect engine temp.
I've recently gotten into using modular engines, and I was wondering what the best cooling system is. I hook up a fluid pump to pipes that begin and end at fluid ports, and it pumps the water through the engine, but the engine keeps on rising to very high levels. I used the thing of having one water port for each lane of pistons. I did an electric pump and a radiator for my plane engines, but that doesn't work either. What is the best way to fix this? If you need to join me in multiplayer to look at it, let me know.
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