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Also how reliable are the new designs? | Also how reliable are the new designs? | ||
I checked out that link and I previously toyed with designs similar to those and found them to be excellent power generators but not true perpetual motion machines, they all lost power intermittedly for varying lengths of time. --[[User:Lucid|Lucid]] 18:30, 5 November 2007 (EST) | I checked out that link and I previously toyed with designs similar to those and found them to be excellent power generators but not true perpetual motion machines, they all lost power intermittedly for varying lengths of time. --[[User:Lucid|Lucid]] 18:30, 5 November 2007 (EST) | ||
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== Perpendicular to water flow == | == Perpendicular to water flow == | ||
Strange as it may sound, water wheels do 'not' need to be parallel to the water flow direction to work. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 16:31, 23 November 2007 (EST) | Strange as it may sound, water wheels do 'not' need to be parallel to the water flow direction to work. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 16:31, 23 November 2007 (EST) | ||
− | :This is as in real life - you can build a less efficient water wheel by putting the "buckets" at an angle - and indeed might put the "buckets" on a 360 degree pivot for some purposes[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 07:21, 8 January 2008 (EST) | + | :This is as in real life - you can build a less efficient water wheel by putting the "buckets" at an angle - and indeed might put the "buckets" on a 360 degree pivot for some purposes.[[User:GarrieIrons|GarrieIrons]] 07:21, 8 January 2008 (EST) |
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===Water Flow Needed?=== | ===Water Flow Needed?=== | ||
::Actually there is no need for water flow at all. A water wheel seems to generate power even if it is built to a water body with no current (no "entry" or "exit" points). So basically the water wheel just needs to touch water and that's it. This is what I've noticed when confining a canal with floodgates at both ends. --[[User:Flaa|Flaa]] 07:47, 22 April 2008 (EDT) | ::Actually there is no need for water flow at all. A water wheel seems to generate power even if it is built to a water body with no current (no "entry" or "exit" points). So basically the water wheel just needs to touch water and that's it. This is what I've noticed when confining a canal with floodgates at both ends. --[[User:Flaa|Flaa]] 07:47, 22 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
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:It is a vertical axle. You should know, since you play the pseudo-ASCII version. --[[User:Savok|Savok]] 22:47, 20 July 2008 (EDT) | :It is a vertical axle. You should know, since you play the pseudo-ASCII version. --[[User:Savok|Savok]] 22:47, 20 July 2008 (EDT) | ||
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would water wheels be powered by water falling down a Z axis onto a waterwheel? | would water wheels be powered by water falling down a Z axis onto a waterwheel? | ||
− | can a waterwheel be used in magma or would it burn?--[[User:Althalus|Althalus]] 10:05, 9 August 2008 (EDT) | + | can a waterwheel be used in magma or would it burn? |
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+ | --[[User:Althalus|Althalus]] 10:05, 9 August 2008 (EDT) | ||
::Water wheels need to be placed in a channel with water to be powered. AFAIK the channel doesn't have to be any longer than the water wheel, doesn't need water coming in nor going out. The game isn't clever enough yet... (shhh!) | ::Water wheels need to be placed in a channel with water to be powered. AFAIK the channel doesn't have to be any longer than the water wheel, doesn't need water coming in nor going out. The game isn't clever enough yet... (shhh!) | ||
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:Not really - of course, waterwheels suspended above magma will not self-destruct, since they are not IN magma, but it is not known whether magma ''powers'' waterwheels, or if that is only hardcoded to be water. --[[User:Savok|Savok]] 09:42, 19 December 2008 (EST) | :Not really - of course, waterwheels suspended above magma will not self-destruct, since they are not IN magma, but it is not known whether magma ''powers'' waterwheels, or if that is only hardcoded to be water. --[[User:Savok|Savok]] 09:42, 19 December 2008 (EST) | ||
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== Waterwheel on rivers == | == Waterwheel on rivers == | ||
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I'm not entirely sure about submerged water wheels. I had a water wheel placed in a (channeled) brook, connected to a screw pump. I built a wall/box around both the screw pump and the water wheel to create a reservoir which was drawn from by another screw pump one z-level up. Perhaps the waterwheel only ceases to work after the water reaches a certain depth? --[[User:RomeoFalling|RomeoFalling]] 23:31, 25 October 2008 (EDT) | I'm not entirely sure about submerged water wheels. I had a water wheel placed in a (channeled) brook, connected to a screw pump. I built a wall/box around both the screw pump and the water wheel to create a reservoir which was drawn from by another screw pump one z-level up. Perhaps the waterwheel only ceases to work after the water reaches a certain depth? --[[User:RomeoFalling|RomeoFalling]] 23:31, 25 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
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== Safe water wheel power == | == Safe water wheel power == | ||
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Will a waterwheel continue to provide power if it is submerged, so long as there is running water in the appropriate tiles? Say, suppose you drain the ocean, and set up water-wheels along the ocean floor to provide power to an underwater fortress, so it can auto-drain itself if you abandon and reclaim. [[User:Lastofthelight|Lastofthelight]] | Will a waterwheel continue to provide power if it is submerged, so long as there is running water in the appropriate tiles? Say, suppose you drain the ocean, and set up water-wheels along the ocean floor to provide power to an underwater fortress, so it can auto-drain itself if you abandon and reclaim. [[User:Lastofthelight|Lastofthelight]] | ||
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== Adjacent water tiles == | == Adjacent water tiles == | ||
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I'm not going to get caught up into this edit skirmish, but having three adjacent water tiles is a requirement for neither the construction nor the functioning of a water wheel. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 02:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | I'm not going to get caught up into this edit skirmish, but having three adjacent water tiles is a requirement for neither the construction nor the functioning of a water wheel. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 02:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
:Agreed. Moving on to the real puzzles? --[[User:Höhlenschreck|Höhlenschreck]] 13:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | :Agreed. Moving on to the real puzzles? --[[User:Höhlenschreck|Höhlenschreck]] 13:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
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