Stationeers ATMOSPHERICS for total beginners - TURBO STYLE! - Part 5: Phase change shenanigans

WARNING: Lots of GUESSING AND FUMBLING going on in this one! The beginning is a solid tutorial (Purge Valve, Active Liquid Drain), and you'll also see phase change in action, particularly the PHASE CHANGE DEVICE pumping heat from A to B ... which I've never done before with this device. But this ultimately devolves into guessing and trying, so be warned. Beginning = good. The rest = maybe watch another video. (Really, it's beneath the other tutorial episodes.)
Btw. the lone oxygen canister resting in the crater was at 25°C in the end.
At the end I said, this will not be part of the series, but it is now. (I can't check out the video before recording is finished, so I couldn't see that the beginning was way better than the rest. Like 99% of my vids, this isn't edited but just "cut live" by pausing the recording. Lazy - but effective.)

[@AgraxGaming]

Another great vid. Thank you

[@OwnerOfTheCosmos]

Heh ... 4 likes after 12 views is HIGH! But could be a statistical spike. Personally, I don't like the outcome much, but the beginning works, and the rest saves the curious from a lot of setting-up and sciencing, I guess.

[@wowailyich615]

27:44 you need to set the Pressures in the chambers in accordance with the temperatures on the phase change chart of the gas.
- Using pollutant, you want to set the evaporation chamber to somewhere above 1800kpa (freezing) and the evaporation chamber will use all liquid it can get to reach the low temperature.
- The condensation chamber is the opposite. You want to set it to the highest temperature you want it to achieve. 6000kpa means it will condense all gasses it can get up to 152° Celsius.
Be mindful: I said "all the gas/liquid it can get" on purpose - if you have too little pollutant in the system, the chambers may not reach the absolute maximum value since they cannot get enough gas/liquid from the opposing device. If you have too much pollutant in the system, you may overburden your liquid pipes and cause them to burst - a purge valve on the liquid line between the devices ist highly recommended.
Did I mention I hate programming but love phase change? :)

[@wowailyich615]

I have found that the phase change devices work best if you let them work on cooling one side or heating one side primarily. Trying to get them to keep a an exact balance of one temperature on one side and another temperature on the other will just give you a headache with the pipe networks between the devices. So, if I want to cool, I set the evaporation chamber to my desired temperature/pressure and max out the condensation chamber. An when I want to heat, I set the condensation chamber to my desired pressure/temperature and set the evaporation chamber to barely above the freezing threshold (1800kpa for Pollutant). That way, I get a system running stable. Ideally, you do not want any pressure in the gas pipe between devices and no liquid in the liquid line between devices. all gas and liquid should be in the devices in an ideal scenario.

[@OwnerOfTheCosmos]

@@wowailyich615 Thank you, I copied all this to my notes. I have to experiment with this thing.

[@tishi2570]

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[@OwnerOfTheCosmos]

Don't worry. The next one is super down to Earth: AIRLOCKS!