Air conditioner, what am i doing wrong

[YankelMyWankel]

I'm clearly having a blonde moment with air conditioners... Are they able to do both heating AND cooling to the desired temp? which way do they need to face to pump properly? Are they like rimworld where one side pumps out exhaust heat and the other pumps cold air only? Which side needs to face the interior of my base? Can someone explain them a little more clearly for me?

[LeftPaw]

The side with the red arrow always points outward no matter if its heat or cold you want.
Once installed you can go down to -10 and up to something like +28, but they always are installed the same way no matter what.

[YankelMyWankel]

so the side with the red arrow is the round fan blades, that's the side i want in my base then you're saying?

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by YankelMyWankel:

so the side with the red arrow is the round fan blades, that's the side i want in my base then you're saying?

No, always have this Fan blades (red arrow) facing outwards into the open air. Make sure you have a closed in area, floor, walls and roof, then wait a minute or so for the heat or cold adapt. I double door it so as not to loose the cold when my people are going in and out, just like in Rim world. First thing I do is make a large freezer room with at least 2 AC which keeps all of my food, electrics and cloth last forever at a nice -9 to -10

[huebnerrl]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Originally posted by YankelMyWankel:

so the side with the red arrow is the round fan blades, that's the side i want in my base then you're saying?

No, always have this Fan blades (red arrow) facing outwards into the open air. Make sure you have a closed in area, floor, walls and roof, then wait a minute or so for the heat or cold adapt. I double door it so as not to loose the cold when my people are going in and out, just like in Rim world. First thing I do is make a large freezer room with at least 2 AC which keeps all of my food, electrics and cloth last forever at a nice -9 to -10

There is no need to have electronics or cloth in a freezer room. They just need to be under a roof and they will last forever.

[Tazmo]

The game is some what confusing on this one. Like you, when I read that it was a heat-pump I thought it controlled the internal temp both up and down. It is really just an air conditioner (AC for cooling only). You can st up a system using AC, heaters and a single thermostat if that's what you want. It can be power hungry though.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by huebnerrl:

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

No, always have this Fan blades (red arrow) facing outwards into the open air. Make sure you have a closed in area, floor, walls and roof, then wait a minute or so for the heat or cold adapt. I double door it so as not to loose the cold when my people are going in and out, just like in Rim world. First thing I do is make a large freezer room with at least 2 AC which keeps all of my food, electrics and cloth last forever at a nice -9 to -10

There is no need to have electronics or cloth in a freezer room. They just need to be under a roof and they will last forever.

That's what I thought until a load of my stuff rotted even when under a roof. I freeze it now just to make sure.

[huebnerrl]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Originally posted by huebnerrl:

There is no need to have electronics or cloth in a freezer room. They just need to be under a roof and they will last forever.

That's what I thought until a load of my stuff rotted even when under a roof. I freeze it now just to make sure.

Dude, I have never known anyone with as many bugs as you. I have NEVER had cloth or electronics rot under a roof. You can look at each item and it tells you how long they last under each storage condition. Even outside they last quite a while.

[huebnerrl]

Originally posted by Tazmo:

The game is some what confusing on this one. Like you, when I read that it was a heat-pump I thought it controlled the internal temp both up and down. It is really just an air conditioner (AC for cooling only). You can st up a system using AC, heaters and a single thermostat if that's what you want. It can be power hungry though.

For me it keeps the room at whatever temp I set. In the winter it warms in the summer it cools.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by huebnerrl:

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

That's what I thought until a load of my stuff rotted even when under a roof. I freeze it now just to make sure.

Dude, I have never known anyone with as many bugs as you. I have NEVER had cloth or electronics rot under a roof. You can look at each item and it tells you how long they last under each storage condition. Even outside they last quite a while.

Yep, storage is definitely bugged. Even if you don't notice many of the problems with it you must have noticed how shelves, stockpile's and the like keep losing their settings, and one set can become four sets? There have been loads of reports about storage being broken to some point. It's just a fact dude.
Pretending that the bugs aren't there is not going to help the dev's much.

[Summanus]

How many air conditioners would you need to cool a 5x13 room down to -10c? At the moment I've got 2 working on my food storage room and they aren't managing to get even below zero most of the time, let alone the target temp of -10.

Does it matter how close they are together, or do I just need more units?

Or is it because people keep walking in and out all the time, letting the cold air out?

Edit: Ok, nevermind - its a bug. I just witnessed the temperature in my cool room jump up by +10 degrees in a couple of seconds for no reason at all and now its trying to cool back down again. Damn.
And also I needed a 3rd air-con unit. So double-whammy.

[Furball]

For wooden rooms, temps are stable during winter and really bad during summer, especially the heat wave.

Try to get to carbon rooms fast, but keep the wooden doors...

Edit: My strategy now is to build a spacious storage room (shelves only), just tossing everything in there. Eventually, I build wardrobes to separate armor & weapons, and yank them out of the storage room. All construction materials are kept under roof only, outside the storage room.

The heat pumps and better building materials get done as soon as whichever gets researched/built/discovered first.

And usually for starters, you can just set the heat pump to around -2 so that your survivors/traders/soldiers can get in without the "chilly" effect, but keep the "frozen" status of perishables.

Also, you can keep your food troughs inside the cold storage room to preserve your pets/animals' food forever. No problem eating frozen food for them, I guess. Only tried this with dogs though... not sure about Ulfens and non-trainable types..