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Rat Of Wisdom

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What am I doing wrong here?
« on: February 13, 2010, 04:46:09 pm »
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The most I ever got out of it was 1400 power (it requires 1839 to turn) during the initial filling, and that was for maybe a second; it fluctuates between 0 and 400 but never goes anywhere above that, except for a brief spike of around 1000 when I first pulled the plug on the lowest Z-level after the place filled up and it became clear that even with the pumps going it wasn't going to flow enough to get the wheels turning.

My other, much, much smaller-scale perpetual motion device, works fine, and I saw a device not long ago (it was that awesome magma-from-the-ceiling trap someone posted) that looked similar (except it was connected directly to a brook).

So, what gives? How much of this am I going to have to tear down and rebuild to get it working like it's supposed to?
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 04:46:50 pm »
Broken pics are broken.
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 04:51:52 pm »
So I'm noticing. Why does imageshack suck so much? Why?

Grr gimme a minute.
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2010, 04:54:11 pm »
I've haven't had trouble with them.
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2010, 04:56:24 pm »
Neither had I until just now. Photobucket on the other hand works fine and always has, so they'll suffice.
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2010, 05:21:24 pm »
I've tried something of a similar idea, and found that it didn't work either, despite a few variations on the theme. All I can conclude is that water doesn't flow well over the level, it's too viscous.
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Re: What am I doing wrong here?
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2010, 05:21:46 pm »
Pics work fine for me now.

I can't say why the perpetual motion machine doesn't work.  The design looks fine.  There is some weirdness about how and when DF decides water counts as moving.

My advice, make a controllable drain at the part of the device where the pumps take water from.  Allow water to flow through the device for a moment, from the fill pumps to the outflow.  Once water is definitely flowing through the device shut off the inlet and the outlet at the same time.  Hopefully that will allow you to force the water to stay in the flowing state.
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