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XXSketchxx
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Posted - 2010.01.22 01:34:00 -
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It will start when your tower "cycles." This time is dictated by when exactly your tower was onlined.
This is when any reaction will start and when fuel will be taken. To determine this exact time, follow these steps:
1. Remove 1 fuel source (such as enriched uranium/robotics) such that there is only 24 hours remaining.
2. When your tower cycles, it will pull fuel. It will find that there is only 23 hours of the fuel you removed left.
3. You will get a notification mail stating the above + current resources.
4. Write down the timestamp on the mail. That is when your tower cycles.
This is extremely useful for micromanaging a POS. For instance, if something you want to construct only takes say 20 minutes and it takes 10 minutes to online the structure, you could online it right after the tower cycles, manufacture it, then offline the structure when complete. I am not entirely sure if I am correct here, but the tower should then not take the extra grid/cpu that structure used into account when it draws fuel next.
It is also great for refueling reactions. You can offline an input silo right after the tower cycles, reload it with input materials, then online it again before the next cycle.
Good luck
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Posted - 2010.01.22 14:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Aska Jade
Can I connect the output of a Moon Harvester right to a simple reactor with no coupling array if both elements are mined at the moon?
I am 90% certain you need it to go into a silo so that it can be linked to the reactor in the processes tab on the POS.
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XXSketchxx
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Posted - 2010.01.22 16:47:00 -
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Originally by: Shiangti
Originally by: XXSketchxx
Originally by: Aska Jade
Can I connect the output of a Moon Harvester right to a simple reactor with no coupling array if both elements are mined at the moon?
I am 90% certain you need it to go into a silo so that it can be linked to the reactor in the processes tab on the POS.
XxSketchxx, you are incorrect. I have a number of medium towers that mine both ingredients and then do a simple reaction. They are set up with two moon miners feeding the simple reactor which then empties into a silo. No coupling array is needed between the harvesting array and the simple reactor. A coupling array could be put between the output of the reactor and the silo but is not necessary if you know when your tower ticks.
I stand corrected then. I have only ever theorized this and performed intermediate reactions/alchemy.
Sorry  .
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