Arc Furnace vs Furnace

[Enorats]

Is there any reason at all to use the arc furnace once you've got a furnace with gas inputs? I mean, the furnace is a bit more difficult to manage with all the inputs/outputs and gas pressure babysitting, but it's still faster by a long shot than waiting on the arc furnace.

Does the furnace recover all the gases released by smelting? I've currently got the furnace output piping into my base filtration systems, and the arc furnace is sitting right next to it in a sealed room with vents capturing gases it releases. Just can't decide if there's a point to even keeping the arc furnace anymore.

[Maireen]

arc furnace is alot easier to automate for smelting if you have a chute system

[M3E6]

if you have enough solar panels you can automate a bunch of arc furnaces with sorters to cook many stacks of ore at once, and you don't have to babysit it, simply throw the ore into a bin and it goes down the chute and the arc furnace will cook everything i put into the queue

[Tankfriend]

On that matter, how do you make sure that the arc furnace keeps smelting them all?
I'm running a setup with a slot reader (read import slot occupied on the furnace) and logic writer (if import slot occupied, activate furnace). Import slot is coupled with chutes and a chute bin, export slot is coupled with chutes and a chute outlet.
Problem is, the furnace stops working after it has smelted one item from the chutes, and I have to manually reset the logic writer to get the furnace working on the next item in line.

[Monty]

Originally posted by Tankfriend:

On that matter, how do you make sure that the arc furnace keeps smelting them all?
I'm running a setup with a slot reader (read import slot occupied on the furnace) and logic writer (if import slot occupied, activate furnace). Import slot is coupled with chutes and a chute bin, export slot is coupled with chutes and a chute outlet.
Problem is, the furnace stops working after it has smelted one item from the chutes, and I have to manually reset the logic writer to get the furnace working on the next item in line.

You also need to read the output slot of the arc furnace and send an activate signal when it is occupied. This is due to the issue of logic chips only sending commands on a change of state. When ore is in the chute waiting for the last load to smelt it counts as being in the arc furnace input thus the logic writer is still in the same state and will not resend the active command.

Hope that is clear enough.

[Tankfriend]

Yeah, thanks alot. I already had my suspicion that something kept the logic chip from repeating instructions to the furnace, and this cleared it up nicely.
Going to be a big help for future chip designs, too. :)