I have Ice and an O2/H2 Generator but it's not making hydrogen?

[Eoin Lynne]

It's consuming my Ice but not making hydrogen, I even attached it to a hydrogen tank with conveyors...

[Alakbar]

Its dumping it into the hydrogen tank, it;ll do the same for the hydrogen engine because its got a little tank inside of it.

I havent figured out how to have it not fill the tanks but I guess its just gona do that automaticly (I might experiment with a script on the programmable block though).

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by Alakbar:

Its dumping it into the hydrogen tank, it;ll do the same for the hydrogen engine because its got a little tank inside of it.

I havent figured out how to have it not fill the tanks but I guess its just gona do that automaticly (I might experiment with a script on the programmable block though).

I want it to fill the tank. I am trying to have it charge my battery on my car. It's not, the battery is till going down. It's just eating my ice and doing nothing.

[Alakbar]

you need to replace/attach a hydrogen ENGINE to your rig, it'll generate power but it chews through hydrogen to produce 5MW. That'll charge it for ya.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Alakbar:

you need to replace/attach a hydrogen ENGINE to your rig, it'll generate power but it chews through hydrogen to produce 5MW. That'll charge it for ya.

I think you completely misunderstand the OP point, the O2/H2 generator is using up ice, but is not filling the Hydrogen tank connected to it. Putting a hydrogen engine will just eat the ice and use up the hydrogen which is certainly not going to be the intention.

And yes OP I noticed the same that I had a hydrogen tank connected to the H2/O2 generator and it uses up the ice at a slow rate to produce oxigen to fill up most likely the cockpit of the small ship connected to my base on the same conveyor system. As when I haven't used that ship for a while it will stop consuming ice all together.

But it does not want to make hydrogen to fill up that hydrogen tank, as I want it to do so I have spare hydrogen to tank up my hydrogen powered ships in case I run out of ice. Or that don't have to wait for it to make hydrogen to fill up my ships hydrogen tanks. Just dock the ship, the ship tanks should be topped of from the base hydrogen tank and then that base tank should be topped off by the H2/O2 generator when it has ice. Or at least that is the setup I want to go for.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Make sure tanks you want to fill are set to stockpile :)

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Make sure tanks you want to fill are set to stockpile :)

Hmm must have missed that setting when I was looking into the why the tank didn't get filled up. WIll have to rebuild them and recheck, thanks for the info and hopefully it was that easy to fix :)

[Captain Bigman]

If there is an Oxygen Tank attached to it, it will prioritize filling the O2 tank before filling an H2 tank. Once the O2 tank is completely full, then the H2 tank will begin to fill.

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by Alakbar:

you need to replace/attach a hydrogen ENGINE to your rig, it'll generate power but it chews through hydrogen to produce 5MW. That'll charge it for ya.

I have a Hydrogen engine. That is why I need the hydrogen. -.-

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Originally posted by Alakbar:

you need to replace/attach a hydrogen ENGINE to your rig, it'll generate power but it chews through hydrogen to produce 5MW. That'll charge it for ya.

I think you completely misunderstand the OP point, the O2/H2 generator is using up ice, but is not filling the Hydrogen tank connected to it. Putting a hydrogen engine will just eat the ice and use up the hydrogen which is certainly not going to be the intention.

And yes OP I noticed the same that I had a hydrogen tank connected to the H2/O2 generator and it uses up the ice at a slow rate to produce oxigen to fill up most likely the cockpit of the small ship connected to my base on the same conveyor system. As when I haven't used that ship for a while it will stop consuming ice all together.

But it does not want to make hydrogen to fill up that hydrogen tank, as I want it to do so I have spare hydrogen to tank up my hydrogen powered ships in case I run out of ice. Or that don't have to wait for it to make hydrogen to fill up my ships hydrogen tanks. Just dock the ship, the ship tanks should be topped of from the base hydrogen tank and then that base tank should be topped off by the H2/O2 generator when it has ice. Or at least that is the setup I want to go for.

I want it to be used by my engine to make power for my car.

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Make sure tanks you want to fill are set to stockpile :)

That would mean it is not making power.

Originally posted by Another Potato:

If there is an Oxygen Tank attached to it, it will prioritize filling the O2 tank before filling an H2 tank. Once the O2 tank is completely full, then the H2 tank will begin to fill.

There is no O2 tank attached.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Eoin Lynne:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Make sure tanks you want to fill are set to stockpile :)

That would mean it is not making power.

Yep, but you need to do that to fill it. Then you switch it off stockpile while you use engine or thruster. Then when you dock to refuel back to stockpile ;)


PS the engine is very inefficent for powering a car, it eats ice too quickly. Power it with batteries then switch on hydro engine only to quickly charge up batts

[ButtKraken]

Try this mod to deal with oxygen and hydrogen.. is better than using tanks although you still can if you want. >>>>

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634365918

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by hometown.lpservice:

Try this mod to deal with oxygen and hydrogen.. is better than using tanks although you still can if you want. >>>>

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=634365918

Thank you but I have no interest in using mods.

[ouch67]

It's probably all going into the engine. The engine burns a ton of hydro. to the point where if all you have is one o2 gen it will get burned up and used before the menu registers the engine is getting hydro.

Try turning all the engines off and see if the tanks fill. Also, the stockpile option is used to drain tanks from other places into ones with stockpile set. All the tanks will fill up on there own evenly without this setting.

So for instance if you have a vehicle with a hydro tank, set this to stockpile. That way when it docks to a base all the hydrogen tanks on in the base will fill the vehicle tanks. (You can also use this to loot ships that have hydro/oxy tanks on them)

[Bannor]

It takes a LOT of hydrogen to fill the hydrogen tank; it fills VERY slowly, and requires a LOT of ice. Are you 100% sure it's not filling at all?

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by ouch67:

It's probably all going into the engine. The engine burns a ton of hydro. to the point where if all you have is one o2 gen it will get burned up and used before the menu registers the engine is getting hydro.

Try turning all the engines off and see if the tanks fill. Also, the stockpile option is used to drain tanks from other places into ones with stockpile set. All the tanks will fill up on there own evenly without this setting.

So for instance if you have a vehicle with a hydro tank, set this to stockpile. That way when it docks to a base all the hydrogen tanks on in the base will fill the vehicle tanks. (You can also use this to loot ships that have hydro/oxy tanks on them)

Originally posted by Bannor:

It takes a LOT of hydrogen to fill the hydrogen tank; it fills VERY slowly, and requires a LOT of ice. Are you 100% sure it's not filling at all?

Nobody is reading my post. I WANT THE HYDROGEN FOR THE ENGINE, TO MAKE POWER FOR THE BATTERY. THE ICE IS BEING CONSUMED BUT NO POWER IS BEING MADE.

[ouch67]

Did you read my post? IT PROBABLY IS MAKING POWER BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SHOW ON THE DISPLAY WITH ONLY ONE O2 GEN RUNNING.

Your vastly underestimating how much h2 the engine consumes vs how much h2 a single o2 gen makes.

So turn the engine off add a h2 tank if you don't have one and let the tank fill up to 1% full or so and then turn the engine on. it will probably instantly use up that much h2 but you get to see it show up in the grid stats.