coal power

[Lost Question]

so just managed to get my first coal power generator running and im wondering how many coal generators can a single water pump support?

[Taco Cat]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Coal_Generator

[Wolfgang]

Use one water pump for two coal generators. With that you are on the save side.

[Sgt.Ray]

The satisfactory wiki is the answer to all your problems. You definitely need to use it.

[kLuns]

Try this:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Use one water pump for two coal generators. With that you are on the save side.

And change the production of each water ectractor to 90 units per minute/ 75% clock speed.

[MJS WARLORD]

i use one water pump for 3 power stations but you have to oc the pump just a little bit to 150% , with regards to how many stations you can run from 1 coal node , it just depends on weather the node is impure , normal or pure , do the sums , i have several rows of 24 coal power stations , dont start any up until all the feed belts are full and the conveyor stops.

I always start up the ones farthest away first the main conveyor first because for some reason if you start at the first one the other play catch up until they are fully working and it takes longer to get them all going.

[PhantomDez]

45m3 of water per coal generator, you can check it inside coal generator itself.

[LostME]

Using the method from the wiki. 3 water pumps for 8 generators. Works well with MK1 pipes.

[Bobucles]

Don't get too fancy with water setups. It is very common for water networks to have minor glitches or not behave as expected. Place the pumps, draw them directly to the coal plants, and don't attempt load balancing or mixing and matching pipe networks. Keep things simple, and very few things can go wrong.

For extra stability, have slightly more water production than needed. A line with 300 production and 3x250% coal plants will be very trustworthy.

[DaBa]

It's all simple math OP, I bet you can do it yourself.

A single coal power plant needs 45 water per minute. One water pump supplies 120 water per minute. All you need to do is find a common denominator for both. Which is 360 in this case. So, that means 8 coal power plants and 3 water pumps form a 100% efficient setup. No need to underclock or overclock anything, never understood people who make their lives harder by doing that.

So, your setup should look something like this, here's some inspiration for you:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2129507496

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2129507667

[DaBa]

Originally posted by LostME:

Using the method from the wiki. 3 water pumps for 8 generators. Works well with MK1 pipes.

People actually have to go to wiki to figure out something that can be done in 2 minutes with a calculator? And I'm being generous, it's literally 2 simple calculations, could be done in seconds. Should've never slept during those math classes...

[LostME]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Originally posted by LostME:

Using the method from the wiki. 3 water pumps for 8 generators. Works well with MK1 pipes.

People actually have to go to wiki to figure out something that can be done in 2 minutes with a calculator? And I'm being generous, it's literally 2 simple calculations, could be done in seconds. Should've never slept during those math classes...

Mathematics says that 8 generators consume 360 ​​water and the pipe only passes 300. For you, there are pictures on the wiki showing how easy it is to solve this problem. Plus, it solves many questions like why it doesn’t work for me.