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[Saetar33]

well, I have a 3-stack of pumps, but I don't know how to use gear assemblies and vertical axles to get power to them, because I only wanted the pump on the level, not water wheels too.

Help/suggestions?

And sorry if it's wrong forum.

[MagmaMcFry]

Axles and gear assemblies connect like this:

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Top view:
*----*%>
|
|
*   %
*---v
|
|
| =
*-=
  =


Side view:
*-----*
o     o
o     %>
o
*---*
   %>

Key:

-|: horizontal axles
o: vertical axles
%>: pump
*: gear assembly

=
=: water wheel
=

Gear assemblies connect in all 6 directions (left/right/front/back/up/down), horizontal and vertical axles connect at the ends, pumps connect in all 10 tiles facially adjacent to the pump, water wheels connect horizontally in the middle of the longer edges, windmills connect vertically below the middle tile. Be sure to channel floors between two vertically separated mechanical parts.

Hmmm, 3 z-levels... Are you building something aboveground?

[Uristocrat]

Channel out a level above one of the pumps and put a gear assembly up there (or send a vertical axle above the pump if you need to go up more than one level), then connect that to whatever power source you have (windmill farm, dwarven water reactor, etc.)

[Saetar33]

well, the thing is, I have a small 3-story building, with an opening at the top leading into a water basin.  I can't seem to build machine components from just one source.

@Magma: I'm pretty sure your views are switched.  :l  Dunno for certain though. 

and I didn't know (indeed, dunno for certain) that gear assemblies connect to vertical axles when they're on the same level, and the GA is on the side.

[duckInferno]

Everything you need to know is on the wiki

I assume you already know the basics of a  pump stack.

Powering it is simple; scroll down that page for a perpetual motion reactor design or two.  Essentially you just get a pump to push water over waterwheels that are connected to the pump.  You can then channel to the pump from the top and connect it to whatever you want to power using axles and gear assemblies.

[sdrawkcabcM tsirU]

One important thing to note is that both segments of a pump act like a gear assembly, meaning any other pumps, gears or axles adjacent, above, or below will serve to connect the chain. So to supply a pump stack, you really only need to supply enough power (x * 40 where x is the number of pumps in the stack) to one of the segments of one of the pumps in the stack. This fact eluded me for awhile.

[MagmaMcFry]

@Magma: I'm pretty sure your views are switched.  :l  Dunno for certain though. 

and I didn't know (indeed, dunno for certain) that gear assemblies connect to vertical axles when they're on the same level, and the GA is on the side.

My views aren't switched. Perhaps I forgot to clarify that these are two different examples to clarify how mechanics work.

Also, gear assemblies do NOT connect to vertical axles on the same z-level, the wiki picture is wrong in this case.