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Arphahat

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Low flow rate from brooks?
« on: August 31, 2008, 12:58:44 pm »
I have created a long channel to funnel my water to a farm.  When I try to flood the 10x20 area, it gets about half way and then starts drying up.  I am funneling the water from a brook... does that affect the rate?
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 01:05:26 pm »
 
 Water will evaporate when in an area a little larger than the size of a magma pipe. Thus it is advisable to either puressurize the water, make multiple 'pipes' to the farm, smaller farm rooms or temporary walls to direct the flow deeper into the farm.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 01:20:17 pm »
How large is the input channel? If the water disperses faster than it can dlow in, you'll have that problem.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 03:23:18 pm »
The channel is one tile in width.  I thought it would be pressurized because I drop it a couple of z-levels from the brook.  Is the thought that if I had a wider channel, with a width of two, it wouldn't evaporate?  I was surprised at how long it was taking and that it started to evaporate instead; it seems like the water only flows like crazy when I don't want it to. :)
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2008, 04:32:14 pm »

 Possibility: Use pumps periodicly.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2008, 06:17:36 pm »
I had a similar problem, I just dug a few more channels into the original channel and eventually it got far enough to fill my well.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2008, 07:06:13 pm »
Do you have a bunch of diagonal channels? I've noticed that liquids flow slower diagonally.

Making your channel wider helps, too.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2008, 08:24:17 pm »
Stone might slow things down to...
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2008, 08:26:12 pm »
I don't think it does, but I honestly have never tested - I ALWAYS dump my stone out of my channels and build floors out of blocks. I can't STAND to have stone sitting in a channel, and for some reason I can't bring myself to build with raw stone.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2008, 03:04:56 pm »
Stone doesn't seem to do anything. I have lots of underwater stone, clothes, doors, bones and they just float around (not the stone I think) :P Diagonal channels do have an effect, though.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2008, 04:34:15 pm »
I once had a drowning chamber that took so long to fill up, most of the people were novice swimmers before they died.
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Re: Low flow rate from brooks?
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 12:54:00 am »
The problems more likely to be at your interface with the brook than the width of the channel, if its pressurized. Basically: brooks themselves aren't pressurized, and a tile or 2 dug out of the edge won't guarantee that all the water will flow into it, or at any fast rate. The solution?: a 4 tile wide channel across the brook itself, so no water can get past :)
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