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[The Prince]

I have a problem regarding a pressure plate.  I have it hooked to a floodgate with a trigger of Water [0-3].  As I understand it, this means the floodgate will be open if there's no water on the plate, yet this doesn't seem to be the case.  I've tried taking the plate/floodgate system apart and rebuilding it twice with no change; my floodgate remains closed despite the fact that there is no water on the plate.  Is this a known bug, or is something else wrong?

I'm running this fortress in 33e, by the way (for personal reasons).

[Lord Snow]

haha.

Even worse:
I've tried something similar. at first it wouldnt open with the pressure plate. Ok, i thought, and set to building a lever to open the floodgate. opened the gate, trusting in my incredible pressure plate... and the water rose and rose way beyond the 2 and/or 7 mark that were set for the pressure plate
... and soon covered most of my lowest floors.

my fort got saved by a fearless miner who ventured into the deeps to pull the lever again.

So... can someone please explain how to apply pressure plate correctly?

[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Snow ]

[TotalPigeon]

Odd, I've never had that kind of trouble with pressure plates. I used two on my well, one set to 0-2 and the other 6-7, so when water runs low it fills back up from the river then closes again. I had to use a lever to open the floodgate originally, but I locked the dwarf in the room with the lever in case we had any problems, a safety measure always worth doing, but it closed quite happily at 6... and I haven't used enough water yet to find out if it will open again at 2  

[The Prince]

Okay, so from the sound of things, the solution is to use a lever to open the floodgate initially, and then rely on the plate from there?