40d Talk:Gear assembly

"...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)

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Level -1, your gear assemblies, * and axle, =

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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

Yes, you're right. I was under the impression you needed a gear because mine hadn't worked with a vertical axle when I tried. However, I just tried again and it worked so I must have done something stupid like not dug a channel or placed the windmill wrong the first time. --BurnedToast 03:57, 3 November 2007 (EDT)

I wish Toady would change the name "vertical axle" to "y-axle" and horizontal to x, etc. I've been reading this assuming assembly gears moved power across the z-axis only. Faces of Mu

Eh, don't worry! I started using the axles and realised they really were horizontal and vertical, with changing horizontal axles using the s key. Faces of Mu.

Is it possible to connect more than one axle to a gear assembly, and if so, is there any extra loss of power as a result? --Xazak 14:35, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Yes and yes. --Ikkonoishi 17:02, 4 November 2007 (EST)

Is it possible to aggregate power with gears? That is to say, if you have two or more windmills and you use axles to move the power into a single column, does it sum up the power? --Mitchy 12:55, 11 November 2007 (EST)