Idea: Liquid Level alarms

[Madder Chemist]

Has anyone thought of putting in high / low level liquid alarms? Basically, if a bulk liquid storage tank gets either too much or too little liquid, it puts up a different color on a light stack?

[DB]

If that happens, the machines that rely on it break and go red anyway so I guess IS the alarm lol

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by Madder Chemist:

Has anyone thought of putting in high / low level liquid alarms? Basically, if a bulk liquid storage tank gets either too much or too little liquid, it puts up a different color on a light stack?

I work in chemical handling IRL, and this is a common practice for large vats and filling equipment

I have a mod that I use that allows me to do something like that
there is a few mods out there that do that. the one I use requires a little knowledge of programming in lua but there are some simple mods that do just what you are describing.

[Madder Chemist]

Well sure, but having an alarm for before it happens would be great. For example, I have 20 x industrial buffers hooked to rocket fuel that are away from main base. It takes quite some time for it to run dry - probably about 2 hours if a problem comes up where something starts running short. Would love to see from a distance before a problem happens. When this monstrosity runs out of fuel, it takes an hour to get restarted properly.

[Kage Goomba]

Generally speaking - that's not entirely what they are used for.
If your running into issues where the tank is running dry or too full - you may want to look into preventing such things.

Beyond that - mods likely exist for that - but you can easily remove their need all together.

[Huren Ogeko]

like I said they have a mod that does that...several actually.
I dont suspect that will be a feature the devs will spend any time or money developing for the game so a mod is your best solution.

I personally never need buffer tanks. I do my due diligence to make the right amount of liquid to meet my needs/ Sometimes I provide more liquid then needed and let it backup and other times its just exactly the right amount so there is no backup and no shortage. depends on the situation and task I am doing.
usually water I like to over produce slightly but things like fuel to generators I make exactly what the generators can consume. The only time I put down a buffer is just for ascetics. I never have them connected to actual working pipes. I think they add make some of my factories look better, I also put in random pipes that do nothing for the same purpose.

[Twelvefield]

Was there an alarm when The Joker fell into the vat in Axis Chemicals for the Michael Keaton Batman movie? I don't remember. But there's your answer.