Where's the hydrogen coming from?

[Lucifer]

For the first 40 cycles of my base, no hydrogen problems. Now, the stuff is everywhere. I didn't tap into a hydrogen pocket or anything like that.

[Zaphiey]

Electrolyzers will create hydrogen, use gas pumps and hydrogen generators to make use of it and convert it to power.

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by Zapheiros:

Electrolyzers will create hydrogen, use gas pumps and hydrogen generators to make use of it and convert it to power.

Thank you!

[IdealPoint]

Make sure to put a gas seive between the pump and the generator to send the oxygen back into your base. And only run it when you have a good amount of hydrogen.

[zeitbauer]

yes, the filter/sieve has to be there to keep any oxygen from your electrolyzers. if not, and there's a little bit of oxygen in your hydrogen space, your electro will continually break down.

[The Queen Salis]

A pump placed high up in the hydrogen dome, leading to a filter, that separates hydrogen from all else. the hydrogen goes straight to the generator, the all else goes to a valve, set to an abysmally low flow rate (the lowest non-zero flow rate I was able to set). This way, when other gas enters the pump, it will block the process for quite a while, slowing down the pumping massively, conserving the batterylife, in wait for hydrogen to rise up to the dome. The pump, filter, a battery and the generator are on a separate circuit, I may put something to be actually powered by it but I don't care enough yet. There's a hamster wheel connected to it too, to kickstart the pump and in case of a failure for whatever reason, but this setup was just quietly getting rid of hydrogen and depressurising my overpressurised base for weeks without problems.