Is carbon skimmer glitchy still?

[Shame]

Had a run, had it connected to electrical current, water flowing in as intended and somehwere to have it go out. They seem to do nothing. No issues shown when hovering over them. How is one meant to get rid of CO2 when something this essential is glitched as hell?

[Battleseed]

What do you mean still? User error does not equal bugged or glitched. Try providing more info or a screenshot.

[Tsuanli]

Picture? It has always worked for me.

[Battleseed]

Originally posted by madcow:

OP, really?

Why start a new post 4 days after this gem?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/457140/discussions/0/1628539187757830455/

He starts like 10 a day.

[Tsuanli]

Originally posted by Battleseed:

Originally posted by madcow:

OP, really?

Why start a new post 4 days after this gem?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/457140/discussions/0/1628539187757830455/

He starts like 10 a day.

No need to remind of that. He clearly has a problem using carbon skimmer and the game has 0 tutorials regarding that.

[harberst]

Did you connect the intake and output to each other? Because that would cause it to not work. You've really got to start adding screenshots with some of these problems if you want solutions.

[Lord Helios]

carbon skimmer is working perfectly fine for me, so no? but as everyone else is saying you might want to check if its user error or not.

[Cotaks]

same here closed loop, skimmer -> sleeve -> and back to skimmer, works like a charm

[Shame]

You are right, I do post too much and should probably shut up and post less. I think the problem is I have the carbon dioxide being pumped into the room quite a bit and the skimmers just delete it, apparently, instead of generating oxygen, meaning I could really do with some other carbon recycling, rather than just turning water polluted for no particular reason.

The biggest problem I find with these is the fact it does not appear that they have any animation for when they are active. Everything else seems to have animation for when they are in use, even those deodoriser that uses sand to get rid of polluted oxygen has an animation when active, so I could only assume they were inactive the entire time. But shouldn't that mean that the room should be full of vacuum after a few cycles, since I have only specifically set to have CO2 to be pumped into that room, while the rest of the air gets pumped ot, and nothing else? Because most of the other CO2 just fell deeper underground as I dug more.

[madcow]

They don't make O2. Skimmers take Water and CO2 and just makes Polluted Water. Nothing else gets created.

CO2 sinks in this game being the "heaviest" gas. Build the skimmer (if you want to skim CO2) where the CO2 is. It deletes CO2. You need to use ways that actually make O2 if you want O2.

[JasonS]

If you *really* want to optimize and get some value out of the CO2 you're removing, you can use the polluted water to farm Pincha Pepernuts or allow the polluted water to off gas into polluted oxygen which you can use to make Clay (via the Deodourizer) or ranch Pufts. Or you can send the polluted water to a Water Sieve which lets you convert Sand into Polluted Dirt which can then be composted into regular dirt, you can do that on a closed loop without even needing a pump, which saves some power.

Or you have tons of spare electricity going around an really need dirt you can boil the polluted water which produces clean Steam (99%) and Dirt (1%), which can be condensed back into water by a Steam Turbine and sent back to the skimmer.

Polluted water is actually pretty useful stuff.

[Lord Helios]

Originally posted by Shame:

You are right, I do post too much and should probably shut up and post less. I think the problem is I have the carbon dioxide being pumped into the room quite a bit and the skimmers just delete it, apparently, instead of generating oxygen, meaning I could really do with some other carbon recycling, rather than just turning water polluted for no particular reason.

The biggest problem I find with these is the fact it does not appear that they have any animation for when they are active. Everything else seems to have animation for when they are in use, even those deodoriser that uses sand to get rid of polluted oxygen has an animation when active, so I could only assume they were inactive the entire time. But shouldn't that mean that the room should be full of vacuum after a few cycles, since I have only specifically set to have CO2 to be pumped into that room, while the rest of the air gets pumped ot, and nothing else? Because most of the other CO2 just fell deeper underground as I dug more.

actually the skimmer has an animation.

[King Doom]

While we are arguing about skimmers, can anyone answer this? do they take damage if they are in a vacuum? I had four in my airlock sealed coal generator room, turned the generators off to let the skimmers eat the CO2 in there and after a few minutes one of the skimmers suddenly hit about 80c and broke down, despite the room and everything else in there being water cooled to about 29-30c.

[Vardis]

Originally posted by King Doom:

While we are arguing about skimmers, can anyone answer this? do they take damage if they are in a vacuum? I had four in my airlock sealed coal generator room, turned the generators off to let the skimmers eat the CO2 in there and after a few minutes one of the skimmers suddenly hit about 80c and broke down, despite the room and everything else in there being water cooled to about 29-30c.

You can water cool stuff in a vacuum? I'm surprised that even works. You'd expect to have to transfer the heat through the air to the cooling pipes, after all. It's not submerged in the water.

[Vardis]

Originally posted by Shame:

You are right, I do post too much and should probably shut up and post less. I think the problem is I have the carbon dioxide being pumped into the room quite a bit and the skimmers just delete it, apparently, instead of generating oxygen, meaning I could really do with some other carbon recycling, rather than just turning water polluted for no particular reason.

The biggest problem I find with these is the fact it does not appear that they have any animation for when they are active. Everything else seems to have animation for when they are in use, even those deodoriser that uses sand to get rid of polluted oxygen has an animation when active, so I could only assume they were inactive the entire time. But shouldn't that mean that the room should be full of vacuum after a few cycles, since I have only specifically set to have CO2 to be pumped into that room, while the rest of the air gets pumped ot, and nothing else? Because most of the other CO2 just fell deeper underground as I dug more.

Posting so much wouldn't be a problem, except you seem to post a lot of issues and never have a screenshot showing exactly what you are doing.

Yes, the skimmers just delete it. Did you not look at the in-game encyclopedia entry? And yes, they have an animation when they are working. And when they are working, you can click on them and it specifically says what it's doing (using CO2, for instance). Under the properties, there's also a section showing how much it's been active.

Hit F4 and select Gas to see what's in that room. Yes, if you only have CO2 in a room with a functioning carbon skimmer, eventually you will be left with vacuum.

Again, without a screenshot, we have no idea what you are doing. Hit F12, get the link, and post it. It's super easy.

[Nellvan]

Originally posted by Vardis:

Originally posted by King Doom:

While we are arguing about skimmers, can anyone answer this? do they take damage if they are in a vacuum? I had four in my airlock sealed coal generator room, turned the generators off to let the skimmers eat the CO2 in there and after a few minutes one of the skimmers suddenly hit about 80c and broke down, despite the room and everything else in there being water cooled to about 29-30c.

You can water cool stuff in a vacuum? I'm surprised that even works. You'd expect to have to transfer the heat through the air to the cooling pipes, after all. It's not submerged in the water.

You can't, that's just the problem here. CO2 has a pretty bad heat conductivity and capacity to start with, and when it gets low there's less and less heat capacity around the skimmer.

And for the original question, it's not the vacuum that direcly causes the damage, it's the fact that the skimmers heat up enough to overheat before the CO2 is gone, and then they can't cool down cause now theres no temperature exchange happening.

What you could do to :
- use gold amalgam for the skimmers, then they'll go to 125 °C (might just delay the issue though)
- add an atmo sensor and turn the skimmer off when there's not enough gas.
- add tempshift plates to speed heat exhange up