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[BaronBalloon]

is it possible to create a dwarven dynamo by manually pumping water into the path of a water wheel?

[hvlkn]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Water_wheel#perpetual_motion

Any help?

[BaronBalloon]

excellent, thank you

[Zaik]

What, like a reactor?

I think if you pump water into a channel that loops back around behind the pump you can power something like 4 water wheels? I've never done it because i honestly can't find a use for power outside over-elaborate drowning traps and i've given up on bothering with magma pump stacks after spending a whole day on one and then having the bottom pump be built backwards and not be accessible anymore.

[hvlkn]

just a note on perpetual motion, connect it through the top of the screw pump with a gear assembly. Other wise you flood everywhere with water, don't ask me why it does, it just does

[BaronBalloon]

the wiki actually has some great designs. you could do other things too, like create a millcity and export tons of wheat and such

[hvlkn]

3 ww's can power 10 storeys of pumps + millstone if your efficient. Or maybe I'm broken

[Hans Lemurson]

What, like a reactor?

I think if you pump water into a channel that loops back around behind the pump you can power something like 4 water wheels? I've never done it because i honestly can't find a use for power outside over-elaborate drowning traps and i've given up on bothering with magma pump stacks after spending a whole day on one and then having the bottom pump be built backwards and not be accessible anymore.

A trick I learned with large pump-stack construction is that if you build an axle next to your pumps, then they will have guaranteed support and it only comes at a cost of increasing their power requirements by 10%.