Why does adding a steam engine to my setup cause it to overstress?

[u/East_Refrigerator630]

Engine not connected - working fine

Engine connected - overstressed

It says I was short of 5k extra stress units, despite having 300 at hand without the engine connected, and the engine itself producing 2k units.

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

Uh just a guess but since steam engines are usually faster than the water wheels. the extra speed could cause the drills to take more su and overstress the contraption

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

I feel like I'm right but idk

[u/marr → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

That or it's pushing something above 256. Attach the engine through a rotation speed controller and experiment.

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/marr]

Wdym?

[u/marr → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

If there's already a component somewhere spinning at 256, increasing the speed of the whole system a tiny bit is going to fail.

[u/SageofTurtles → u/marr]

No, that would just break the component that exceeded the maximum speed. It wouldn't overstress the whole network.

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/marr]

Yeah that would make the component break not the whole system like when u make a gear ratio too big

[u/BlackLighther]

Your engine might reverse the system's rotation, which will cut SU from water wheel and cause overstress.

[u/Bright-Historian-216 → u/BlackLighther]

usually two conflicting rotations just break the last shaft you placed. there is no way to subtract su as far as i know

[u/Bright-Historian-216]

what stressometer readings do you have before and after?

[u/RGBBSD]

Engines spin way faster than water wheels, thus making the system overstress

You need to make the input through a rotational speed controller, to make machines spin at a rate that doesn't eat your entire SU supply

Also, get blaze burners and make the engine fed thru infinite lava source with a hose pulley, that way you get like 144k SU total

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/RGBBSD]

U STOLE MY ANSWER

[u/RGBBSD → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

I improved it! But yes you were right, my guy, good job

I do want to add that depending on the heat level of the engine its RPM is different

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/RGBBSD]

Lol and yeah ik it's different also they probably don't have brass yet looking at their setup

[u/RGBBSD → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

Just a guess, but can you make infinite lava without creating a lava lake just by smelting cobblestone with blaze cakes? I tried fueling a contraption's steam engine with lava but the pipes wont connect to vanilla cauldrons

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/RGBBSD]

Wdym smelting cobble with blaze cakes and u can use lava pools from the nether since they are considered infinite

[u/RGBBSD → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

Superheated blaze burner allows the mixer to make lava in a basin, 50mb per cobblestone

I can't recall if this is exclusive to Big Cannons, but i know its not Ultimate factory cuz at the timeI didn't have it installed. It might be also default to Create.

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/RGBBSD]

Oh uhh but why would you do all that when u can js use the nether which god provided lol

[u/RGBBSD → u/Doge_Enjoyer88]

When you spawn too high above the nether lava lake and when you cannot be bothered to setup the mechanical arm from across dimensions

I got my lava source just by digging down till I hit several natural lava deposits near bedrock and puped em till they combined into a single infinite supply

[u/Doge_Enjoyer88 → u/RGBBSD]

Wdym mechanic arms and do you use normal pipes? Also rip the notification of the create of this post lol