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[Slayer]

how do you connect you windmill to the pump so the pump it powered?

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M = magma
% = screwpump
. = channel
- = axle

[Erotic Bootlace]

how do you connect you windmill to the pump so the pump it powered?

Check out the wiki for mechanics. Specifically;
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Power
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Gear_assembly
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Axle

Basically, you connect something like a windmill by building the windmill over a 1 tile gap i.e.
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On the z level below the gap, you build a gear assembly then use axles to connect it to your screw pump. This needs to be built first as it will support the windmill; if removed, the windmill with collapse. Alternatively, you can have the windmill directly above the pump in which case you won't need the gear assembly.

The advantage of a properly constructed pump stack (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Pump_stack#Pump_Stack) is that the power is transferred up / down the stack through the gaps in the floor beneath the pumps themselves, meaning that each pump doesn't need to be individually powered. All you need to do is connect one point of the pump stack to a sufficiently powerful source of power and it'll run the entire stack.

[jaxad0127]

Vertically. The windmill will send power tot he tile right below it's center tile. Put something there to accept it, then send it to your stack (if it isn't right on top of your stack, of course).