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:No, they are not built on solid ground. I just made a tower reactor the other day. All three tiles under the wheel are channeled out. The wheels are suppported by the gear assemblies to the side. The pump sucks from under the closest wheel tile. Power was horribly intermittent, I don't think the upper wheels were generating power at all. In fact, I don't see how they can. I was trying to use it as a self-powered waterfall, and it worked for that, sort of. But you couldn't power anything off of it, constant job cancellations occur. As it depowers, water starts flowing back down the stack, powering the upper wheels which aren't actually powered when it is pumping, because the pumps above are sucking water out as fast as it goes in, and the upper tunnels never fill with water. Maybe I just didn't have enough water in the contraption, but too much water means a flooding waterfall. I finally built a mini-reactor connected by a gear to a conventional pump stack, that makes a perfect waterfall. [[User:GhostDwemer|GhostDwemer]] 17:25, 28 October 2010 (UTC) | :No, they are not built on solid ground. I just made a tower reactor the other day. All three tiles under the wheel are channeled out. The wheels are suppported by the gear assemblies to the side. The pump sucks from under the closest wheel tile. Power was horribly intermittent, I don't think the upper wheels were generating power at all. In fact, I don't see how they can. I was trying to use it as a self-powered waterfall, and it worked for that, sort of. But you couldn't power anything off of it, constant job cancellations occur. As it depowers, water starts flowing back down the stack, powering the upper wheels which aren't actually powered when it is pumping, because the pumps above are sucking water out as fast as it goes in, and the upper tunnels never fill with water. Maybe I just didn't have enough water in the contraption, but too much water means a flooding waterfall. I finally built a mini-reactor connected by a gear to a conventional pump stack, that makes a perfect waterfall. [[User:GhostDwemer|GhostDwemer]] 17:25, 28 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
::You're right, the design currently there doesn't work. I'm gonna replace it with my own design, once I get it built and tested. Just offhand, though, I don't think it'll be any more useful than a separate "pump stack plus water reactor" arrangement. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 18:56, 29 October 2010 (UTC) | ::You're right, the design currently there doesn't work. I'm gonna replace it with my own design, once I get it built and tested. Just offhand, though, I don't think it'll be any more useful than a separate "pump stack plus water reactor" arrangement. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 18:56, 29 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
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