Diluted Packaged Fuel

[Mr. Tact]

Alright, I got to the point where I am looking to turn 300 Oil/m into as much power as I can using the Heavy Oil Residue and Diluted Packaged Fuel alternate recipes (don't have Blenders yet). I had done this previously in my Update 7 build and I am wondering if the numbers changed, or I did it wrong previously, or if I am just failing with the math.

I choke the HOR refineries to 75% so they produce the 30 HOR, which matches what the Refinery making the Packaged Fuel needs. That still looks fine. The Packaged fuel is unpacked and I take two Packagers worth of unpacked Fuel and pipe it together. So, each Packager unpacks "2 Packaged Fuel 60 per minute". So, that's 120 Fuel per minute from each for a combined 240 Fuel per minute into the pipe, right?

If that's correct It would feed 12 Generators since they use 20 per minute. The thing is my U7 setup seems to be working full time, no pauses, but I only have 10 Generators running off the pipe. Shouldn't it backed up? It doesn't seem to be.

What am I wrong about?

[Wolfgang]

Making HOR is this:
30 Oil/min -> 40 HOR/min + 20 Polymer Resin/min

To packaged diluted fuel it is this:
30 HOR/min + 60 Packaged Water/min -> 60 Packaged fuel/min

Which in your scenario gives you 400 HOR/min and thus 800 Fuel/min.

[Mr. Tact]

You are correct. But that doesn't answer my question.

[Wolfgang]

And no, your packager is not unpacking 120 Fuel/min. Only 60 Fuel/min.

[Mr. Tact]

Okay. So that would be a combined 120 for two of them, which would run 6 Generators. But all my pipes seem full on the U7 build. I guess I just need to wait longer for the over usage to start draining the system... ?

[Mr. Tact]

Well, I have been sitting in this save for over 30 minutes now and the Generators and pipes are all full, and the amount of fuel in the two Packagers remains about the same (one in the high teens, the other in the high 30s).

So, clearly something "magical" is happening when I run what was originally a U7 save in the 1.0 version of the game. Two Packagers unpacking fuel are keeping up with 10 Generators. So freaking weird.

[Bobucles]

The number per minute is the number per minute. It already does the complete math. The packager starts at 40 (2 fuel gens) and overclocks to 100(5 fuel gens).

[Mr. Tact]

You are correct that a Packager will pack 40 per min. However it unpacks at 60 per min.
And in this case the source is a refinery doing the Diluted Package Fuel recipe, which is 60 per minute.

[Mr. Tact]

Interestingly, I started checking the other lines of Generators and some are like the one I am talking about. Full pipes and Generators in the game for over an hour now, two packagers supplying 10 Generators. However, I did find some lines which were running low on fuel as expected. VERY ODD.