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40d Talk:Gear assembly
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"...this causes the windmill construction to collapse. Instead, create a second gear adjacent to the linked gear upon which to support the windmill." I'm having a hard time visualizing what this means, could someone make a diagram? --BahamutZERO 12:48, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
Level 0, your windmill W (I'm not sure what it looks like)
.... .W.. ..>.
Level -1, your gear assemblies, * and axle, =
#### #**= ##<#
Link your lever to the second assembly (right), such that the Windmill is supported by the other (left).
--Draco18s 13:09, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- won't this waste 5 power on a useless gear? why not just build a wall instead? --Lacero 15:27, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- because you need a gear under the windmill to get power from it. the second gear is so that you can cut power without collapsing the windmill. --BurnedToast 15:30, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- This only applies to a windmill built floating above the ground, so the above example doesn't apply -- disconnecting the gear in Draco18s' example would do nothing to the windmill. Really, you should just build a set of supports and some actual floor to put an above-ground windmill onto a "solid foundation", so that it remains supported even when you disconnect power. That way you don't lose any power from adding another gear assembly. Gear assemblies are 'spensive. --JT