How do you turn on a pump?

[Taul Power]

I have a medium impeller pump but can't figure out how to turn it on. I can connect the tubing but I don't see an on/off option.

[Tante Dagobert]

Pressing E should help.

[Taul Power]

Originally posted by Tante Dagobert:

Pressing E should help.

Unless my game is bugged pressing E does nothing. I just did a simple test of having one kettle with water connected to the pump inlet and then tubing going from the outlet to an empty kettle.

[LucyRiver]

Originally posted by Taul Power:

Originally posted by Tante Dagobert:

Pressing E should help.

Unless my game is bugged pressing E does nothing. I just did a simple test of having one kettle with water connected to the pump inlet and then tubing going from the outlet to an empty kettle.

The pump seems a bit buggy with some of the apparatus unfortunately. I don't think it's anything you're doing wrong

[Tante Dagobert]

- In general, the installation process has to be: take 2 tubes and one pump from the shelf,
place the pump on the ground and take the first tube and connect it with E from the full kettle to INTAKE, and the second tube from OUTAKE to the desired empty kettle. Looking at the pump should show "E turn pump on". It takes some seconds but you can see the flowing in the yellow tubes which demonstrate the direction.

-Because of the buggy behaviour, sometimes you have to catch the pumps and place them again so you can rewire it.

-All barrels, fermenters and kegs have little knobs you have to turn first.

-Another bug is is the reverting mechanic on the large pump, it´s not working, and "breaks" the pump. Lifting it of and connecting again will bring it at least to work again

-And my favorite, I didnt recognize the kettle was empty ;-)

[Taul Power]

Ok so I got the pump working to transfer from the kettle into a fermenter. It also works from the pot to another pot. I can't for the life of me get it to work with the counterflow chiller. I have a pot with spigot filled with 30L of water, I connect a tube from spigot to intake on pump, connect pump outtake to intake on counterflow chiller, connect chiller outtake to fermenter, open spigot on kettle, turn on pump, nothing happens.

I thought maybe the equipment was to far apart so I put them side by side on the table but still not working. I also tried adding a second pump between chiller outake and fermenter but no luck. Has anyone successfully used the counterflow chiller?

[ZedsNotYetDead]

The chillers are bugged in a way that they don't work with pumps at all. If you connect straight from the tap to the chillers, they work fine and reduce the temp real fast.

the other bug with all but the basic chiller is that it will tank your IBU to 0 and will remove some flavor notes as well so it's generally not worth it to use the advanced chillers at all.

[Nage]

Don't connect the pump to the water pipe, because it will break.

[Ferrous]

pressing E won't work if you have a tube or watch out, put those away first.