Thermo aquaturner getting damage ?

[kampfer91]

I run a pipe contain 30 celcius water through an aquaturner and then i see it getting damage because cold water ???? I though it take the heat out of the water pipe ?

[cswiger]

You need a pipe thermo sensor immediately before the AquaTuner which turns it off if the coolant would freeze. This implies you should also have a bridge or double-bridge bypass to keep the coolant moving.

[kampfer91]

but i thought the water freeze at zero celcius ? and the aquaturner remove like 14 celcius from water .

[Izmir Stinger]

it does freeze at 0ºC, but that would damage the outflow pipe, not the tuner itself. it is taking overheat damage. you have to cool the aquatuner to run it continuously

[gothmog77]

I have had problems with aquatuners being fed too-cold water, despite using a thermo sensor to only allow warm-enough water to get to the aquatuner. It seemed to correlate with electrical blackouts, so my theory is that if you turn power off and on, a single packet of water is able to sneak past the sensor regardless of its temperature. My solution is two-fold: build a better electrical system that never has blackouts, and more importantly smooth out the temperature of the coolant by constantly cycling it through submerged radiant pipes, so you don't get 1 packet at 40C and the next packet at 5C.

Edit: If you post a screenshot of your design maybe we can find your problem more easily.

[kampfer91]

Can't . i deconstructed the entire system , now i am looking for better coolant design .

[AlexMBrennan]

Pipe damage is usually caused by T-junctions or an incorrect AT bypass. Either post a screenshot of your base or copy one of the many guides more carefully.

[Stridswombat]

The aquatuner heats up the surrounding area. If the area is too small, too hot or if you don't have a way to cool it then it will overheat. That's probably what's happened here. Try making it out of gold aswell to increase the overheat temperature.

[kampfer91]

How much heat a machine made of gold can withstand ?

[Stridswombat]

Making something out of gold increases the overheat temperature by 50 degrees. The default overheat temperature for an aquatuner is 125 degrees, so one made of gold shouldn't be overheating until 175 degrees.

[Plump Capybaras]

I ran into this. The aquatuner is taking heat out of the water, and putting the heat on ITSELF, so it's overheating very quickly when not submersed in a fluid. I got around this by pouring a few thousand kg of crude oil into a cup around the aquatuner. It allows the heat to dissipate into the oil and then the air. AqTu > air doesn't cool fast enough and you overheat.

[Shame]

Originally posted by kampfer91:

How much heat a machine made of gold can withstand ?

If you are using a gold aqua tuner I highly recommend submerging the aqua tuner in a little bit of crude oil or petroleum with a temp shift plate or two behind the aqua tuner as well. This way the heat disperses quicker, otherwise the aqua tuner itself will reach temperatures of above 175C as gold amalgam has terrible thermal conductivity. With steel this problem shouldn't happen under normal circumstances as the heat will disperse better.