Temp Shift Plates

[SerWind]

Can anyone help me understand these things? I've looked up a few things about them but I am still not 100 on how they work. I get it's suppose to be like a heat sink. So the heat sink absorbs heat then you need to dump it somewhere, so you can build a chain of these things to like a cold liquid or something like that and it will move heat from the start of the chain to the cold liquid? Because all of them are trying to equalize?

Basically my farm is too hot. I want to cool it down to grow the bristly things. I tried pumping air out, cooling it, then pumping it through insulated pipes back into the same room. Not only did it not cool the room but the pressure dropped so low the room was no longer fit to grow plant life.

[Sussex]

Yea heat is kinda getting me too. Wheezeworts is the way forward for me for now (I hope) other than that, i`m as in the dark about temperature as I am about pressure and power. Steep learning curve.

[FDru]

You seem to understand how they work. They're just another source of heat transfer. Having more stuff crammed into the same space always helps to reduce heat on the things you don't want to be heated so they're potentially useful wherever you put them, but of course they can hold heat where you don't want it in some situations (like when you're trying to move heat out of a room via depressurization or something).

[Chronie]

Temp shift plates seem to exchange heat from a 5x5 area centred around them. Wheezeworts according to some posts I have read have a variable cooling potential based on what they are transfering heat with. When you look behind them they seem to be exchanging heat with a vacuum. The theory is the greater the heat transferance rate behind them the faster they cool things down so hydrogen is the best gas to contain one in.

Unsure but I believe that a temperature shift plate behind them can speed the cooling process as well.

[Nellvan]

Whezeworts don't exchange heat with anything, they simply "delete" it. They inhale some gas, and exhale it 5 °C (iirc) colder. The variable thing is what properties the gas has, and wether there's enough of it. When the pressure is low, the worts don't get to inhale and cool as much as they could.

Chlorine is bad due to low conductivity, hydrogen is the best. The gas gets cooled just the same no matter what it is, but the gasses differ in how good they are at cooling other things.

Tempshift plates basically boost or reduce the heat conductivity of a small area, depending on the material used. When you place high conductivity ones behind wheezeworts, they speed up the heat transfer in the gas surrounding the wort, which raises the cooling effectivity.

[kingjames488]

basically they're just a bunch of mass you can build in a space.
since air has such a low thermal conductivity and capacity pretty much anything you can build will absorb heat faster but a temp shift plate has the advantage of being able to be built under some things to improve the heat transfer charateristcs of that tile.

they say they can be used to buffer heat transfer too, but since it doesn't displace the air it really doesn't improve anything.

[SerWind]

I just don't get it honestly. First tempshift plate started at 45c, built this https://i.imgur.com/ZWy58eI.png

Basically no change. They just seem to hold whatever temperature is around them. I don't get exactly how they can be used to cool a room. I used obsidian for these ones

[Chronie]

Originally posted by SerWind:

I just don't get it honestly. First tempshift plate started at 45c, built this https://i.imgur.com/ZWy58eI.png

Basically no change. They just seem to hold whatever temperature is around them. I don't get exactly how they can be used to cool a room. I used obsidian for these ones

They generate no heating or cooling themselves but help to average the temperature in an area.

Temp shift plates exchange their heat with the surrounding 5x5 area so instead of averaging heat out with 5 squares in a + area it exchanges it with 25 squares in a box shape. Abyssalite around where they are exchanges no heat so is slowing the process down. This can be used to speed heating or cooling in an area or used through a wall.

I only use Diamond for mine as it is 40x faster in exchanging heat than Obsidian with other temp shift tiles. When it is exchanging heat that quickly it is noticable change. I also use them to cool my plastic production down to avoid overheating