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Heloise ChateauBriande
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Posted - 2006.01.19 23:22:00 -
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Here is the theoretical setup.
The output of two moon harvesters (each mines a different raw material) are connected to the input of a medium reactor. The reactor is set up with the appropriate reaction blueprint and there is a silo on the end to gather the processed material.
Do I need to put coupler arrays between the harvesters and the reactor?
I *think* I would if I tried to fit this in a medium tower because the medium reactor runs at half speed on a medium tower. (According to item information.)
However would I need coupling arrays if I did this on a Large tower? Theoretically the reactor should be able to keep up with the input from the harvesters... right?
Is there any way to find out how fast moon harvesters mine in terms of a m3 value. I need to know how fast a silo would fill up.
Thanks a bunch,
- Helo 
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James Lyrus
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Posted - 2006.01.19 23:34:00 -
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You don't need a coupler. However you do need to know when your tower 'cycles'. It's the same time each hour, so just avoid unloading your silo around that time.
Reactors run at exactly the same rate on any size of tower 1 cycle per hour.
Harvesters produce 100 units of 'stuff' each cycle. Volume is dependant on what it is you're mining. A silo will update to display it's max capacity when you switch it's storage type.
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Heloise ChateauBriande
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Posted - 2006.01.20 07:46:00 -
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Edited by: Heloise ChateauBriande on 20/01/2006 07:46:33
The Medium Reactor Array contains the description: "The Simple Reactor Array will only run at half speed on a Medium Control Tower, and is not capable of running complex reactions." The author of the EVE POS guide also mentions this problem. Has CCP made a change to this in one of their patches??
Just to be clear, if I set up a Medium Tower and take two moon harvesters directly into a medium reactor array... then take the output through a coupling array into a silo... I would have a workable moon mining array and wouldn't lose cycles of mins from the harvesters?
That would be sweet because there would just be enough CPU to do this on either a Gallente or Caldari medium tower. 
- Helo
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Sfynx
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Posted - 2006.01.20 15:07:00 -
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That should be possible, provided that you have a moon that has two materials that form a simple reaction.
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Adriana Djinn
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Posted - 2006.01.24 09:11:00 -
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Can I add a question of my own please? Is it possible to run the reactor's output directly into a silo without the need for a coupling array? |
Krazow
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Posted - 2006.01.24 09:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Adriana Djinn
Can I add a question of my own please? Is it possible to run the reactor's output directly into a silo without the need for a coupling array?
Yes it is possible, I have done it (pre RMR)
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Deor
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Posted - 2006.01.24 13:37:00 -
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I am running this now. 2 Harvsters doing directly into a reactor, which then goes directly into a silo. No need for coupling arrays so you can save a little cpu and power.
In order to work out how fast your silo is going to fill up, just look at the maximum amount of your product it will hold once everything is set up in the production screen. Then devide that by the amount of product the reactor produces per hour. Devide that by 24 and it will give you how many days of running it will do before you need to empty it!
Example:
My reactor is producint Ceramic Powder, it produces 200 units her 60 mins. The silo will hold 20000 units of the stuff. 20000 devide by 200 give me 100 hours of storage. Thats a tad over 4 days.
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Yurameki Daishun
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Posted - 2006.01.24 23:02:00 -
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they're very vague on what couplers do, they need to make things more explicit for these things so it's easier to understand how to use them
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Yurameki Daishun
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Posted - 2006.01.24 23:02:00 -
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they're very vague on what couplers do, they need to make things more explicit for these things so it's easier to understand how to use them
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Deor
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Posted - 2006.01.25 00:18:00 -
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Couplers are pretty streight forward really its a buffer so you dont need to worry about knowing when your tower 'ticks' and you never loose a harvesting cycle while offlineing a silo to empty it. They make life a little easier, but you can get away without them and save CPU and Power.
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Shyra Storm
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Posted - 2006.03.10 11:36:00 -
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I have an problem, that I cant use 3 silos, because I run low on CPU. So I want to try this setup:
- Moon Harvester 1- Medium Reactor - coupling Array - Reactor - Silo
- Moon Harvester 2 /.........................................Silo /
Can this work? The reason is, that the medium reactor output brings 200 units of the reaction, but only 100 units will be needed for the complex reaction within the reactor. So I dont waste 100 units of the simple reaction per hour.
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Deor
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Posted - 2006.03.10 12:04:00 -
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You can link the Moon array directly to the reactor.
You can also use coupling arrays instead of silos for storage, you have to empty them more often, but it will save a few hundred CPU.
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Deor
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Posted - 2006.03.10 12:07:00 -
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Ah sorry i didnt read your setup correctly, ive never tried to link the output from the simple reactor to the complex one as i dont have enough CPU to run both. I just run my batches of simple reactions till i have full silos, then relink them to the complex for a run and offline which ever reactor im not using.
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Bottled Brain
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Posted - 2006.03.10 16:06:00 -
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Originally by: Shyra Storm
- Moon Harvester 1- Medium Reactor - coupling Array - Reactor - Silo
- Moon Harvester 2 /.........................................Silo /
The coupling will be filled within 15h. Broken silobonus 4tw.
You could put two couplings between the two reactors and replace the silo for the other simple reaction with 2 couplings aswell.
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Verite Rendition
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Posted - 2006.03.10 18:13:00 -
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Originally by: Heloise ChateauBriande
Edited by: Heloise ChateauBriande on 20/01/2006 07:46:33
The Medium Reactor Array contains the description: "The Simple Reactor Array will only run at half speed on a Medium Control Tower, and is not capable of running complex reactions." The author of the EVE POS guide also mentions this problem. Has CCP made a change to this in one of their patches??
Just to be clear, if I set up a Medium Tower and take two moon harvesters directly into a medium reactor array... then take the output through a coupling array into a silo... I would have a workable moon mining array and wouldn't lose cycles of mins from the harvesters?
That would be sweet because there would just be enough CPU to do this on either a Gallente or Caldari medium tower.
- Helo
You're fine, the description on the medium reactor is incorrect. Its only limit is that it can only do simple reactons, it does those at full speed however.
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Shyra Storm
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Posted - 2006.03.11 19:27:00 -
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I put 2 harvesters directly into an med reactor and its producing simple reaction really fine. But I am not sure, if they make every hour one simple reaction!? I have an Large tower, so the med reactor should do it as well, or not?
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Bottled Brain
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Posted - 2006.03.11 21:55:00 -
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Yep, 200 units per hour.
As been said, the description of the med reactor is wrong.
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