how to set up electrolyzers?

[Bunbo]

how should i set up electrolyzers? i already found a steam geyser

[Grek]

at bottom of your base. levels should be made from airflow tiles. 1 electro requires atleast 2 wheezworts for cooling

[AquaX]

There at least 2 known ways to set up the electrolyters.

1st is putting it inside an ice biome and using air pumps to send it to your base. This method produces cooler o2 but you will need lots of pwr and gas pipes to send it around your base.

2nd is placing it within your base, usually at the bottom or slightly under the middle section if the base. Add airflow tiles throughout the base to allow hydrogen to float up and co2 to drop down. This req only 1 pump and filter to grab the hydrogen that floats to the top of the base. The electrolyters will automatically turn on/off when pressure changes so you do not need to do anything afterwords. The main downside is that the base would get hotter later on so you will need to add either wheezeworts or a cooling system.

[Grek]

offtop: how many days till ranching update release (uninstalled game till release)?

[Hoki]

Originally posted by Grek:

offtop: how many days till ranching update release (uninstalled game till release)?

5

[Grek]

Originally posted by HOKImeetz:

Originally posted by Grek:

offtop: how many days till ranching update release (uninstalled game till release)?

5

thank you pal

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Grek:

offtop: how many days till ranching update release (uninstalled game till release)?

In theory, should be released Thursday if their past style has shown.

[nigel57m]

Putting the electrolizers in cold biome can be a pain to keep supplied with water, its all around you, ya i know, I like to place them near the top of my base, easier to collect hydrogen, it is cleaner, easy to pipe air back into the base, but heat is the drawback. You have to deal with heat sooner or later..
I like having a steam gyser close enough to an ice biome and dump the water there to cool it off, can still be hard to set up right.

[kingjames488]

have your poluted water tank in a good warm spot, then put the water seive there and an electrolizer nearby right off the clean water output. build the whole electrolizer setup in a box about 6 tiles wide by 10 tiles high and put a couple mesh tiles in the middle with the electrolizer on them and a couple ladders along the sides, then put an air pump(can have an atmo sensor) and an air filter set to hydrogen in the box above that. the bottom area can have doors to enter.

this is the simplest setup IMO. hot water comes out of your water seive at 40C and goes right into the electrolizer that produces only 6.5W of heat and you have a direct output of hydrogen and mostly oxygen at about 20-40C. even better if you can build it below a thermal nullifier.

[Bunbo]

thanks

[Nemo, Forevermore]

I like to set up my electrolyzer under a thick cloud of chlorine, then pipe in toilet water through a sieve. The electrolyzer will pump out oxygen and hydrogen with food poisoning which will be quickly eradicated in the cloud of chlorine as it ascends. This is how I like to reuse my bathroom water.

I will also use polluted bathroom water for pincha peppernut hydroponics, but that's a different story.

[Bunbo]

how do you get water from the toilets?

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Pet Goat:

I like to set up my electrolyzer under a thick cloud of chlorine, then pipe in toilet water through a sieve. The electrolyzer will pump out oxygen and hydrogen with food poisoning which will be quickly eradicated in the cloud of chlorine as it ascends. This is how I like to reuse my bathroom water.

I will also use polluted bathroom water for pincha peppernut hydroponics, but that's a different story.

It isnt really the chlorine thats killing the germs but more the fact the germs cant survive inside o2 and hydrogen. It can only survive in polluted water. Anything else will slowly kill it.

Originally posted by Jerger Berger:

how do you get water from the toilets?

Toilets produce more water than it takes in due to the fact your dupes have to pee into it. So eventually you will have more water than you are putting in for toilet loops and need to vent some out once in a while.

[Bunbo]

does the polluted water just spawn under the toilets or something?

[Evilsod]

They produce more than they use.

All it means is you need an 'overflow' system for your closed-loop bathroom pipework. Its totally useless for anything. Its riddled with food poisoning and produces so little per cycle that there is no practical way to do anything with it until you have a massive batch of it. Why you'd go through the trouble of maintaining a field of chlorine around the electrolyzers to use such a miniscule amount of water I really don't understand.

I'm using this setup from now on:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1330030539

Self-powering with excess, never had any gasses find there way inside and I don't think the hydrogen has ever escaped.

[AquaX]

Originally posted by Jerger Berger:

does the polluted water just spawn under the toilets or something?

If you look at the lavatory info, it shows that it takes several amts of kg clean water first before it can be used. After it is used, a certain amt of polluted water is released, kinda like a RL toilet. But as you read the info, you notice the polluted water created is more than the clean water used.