Tried that direct-wiring approach during my testing: it ONLY works if there is a new fuel cell ready to grab, if not: it breaks. Your acumulator % logic could go to a power switch that kills the power pole for these 2 inserters. and set input to only insert when spent=1. Theoretical here.Wire input inserter and output inserter together. You could wire accumulators to an inserter at your Nukes that does something like.Ģ)counts input fuel vs output spent to only ever insert 1 if accum % is less than something. If I am not mistaken, accumulators now report charge. Shokubai wrote:I think a combination of suggestions is in order. It inserts 1 fuel rod into each of the 4 cores whenever the accumulators get low, and there is enough thermal mass in the system that at fuel rod burnout the cores are at only 800C- the cap is 1000C. I've got a 2x2 reactor array that is fuelled this way with excellent results, a 50MW factory is powered by 480MW installed reactor capacity with zero waste. Make a belt loop SR latch with the read step outputting a pulse instead of holding. This also makes sure that all of the cores in the set start and stop at exactly the same times, maximizing the neighbor bonus. Then you override the stack size to 1 item, and you are now in a situation where it is possible to insert exactly 1 item. The cycle will complete once started by the trigger pulse. When an inserter recieves such a pulse, it will insert exactly 1 time. There's nothing really stopping the reactor from filling up with fuel cells as fast as your logistics robots can move them, if the source of fuel cells is at all close to the requester chest. Unless I misunderstand what you're doing, you've got a requester chest asking for 1 fuel cell, and you're hoping that it doesn't get reloaded before the steam gets above the desired threshold. Gus_Smedstad wrote:That's not really a solution. I expect I have to set a flag when I load it, and clear it when I detect the used cell.Ġ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圜NiLWM4L6Luho3rjKd/BW7H74p+AG9sSuBqGs圓kjgweN4qRpU0jMXtUrDTCb7qYIIUTwB7n+FrDvaAsDeBHiQRoVBAFxJOYIB9QCoP3PsSpPLAGk9wyoMN45QH203IcwixhicEOcIhEfZ4OC6CHEEPUsIWD3qQotSY元iAGubzzg4zoIb5PABhBtQwn3dXmEERihJmSAgM8FHgxrhc8CGjjmDlH5dpThzBCM4M+VoFfq2NfKsCXlozX+9MFgz7Wme2gPV1znQB6+ucc3XBYN/7j3wB67v0zCUFg313nrmiYbDvyjMXEvzThU9dZ/FDYJ+6+Fmaj8H0JnR19QtfwNyVu5tGThwLFeW5SJwS/wGyhjAdĢ0170508155537_1.jpg (633.4 KiB) Viewed 9715 times RIght now it seems like I need something of a state machine, since there's no way to measure directly whether the reactor is running. I'm wondering if someone has already solved this one simply.

I can detect when the reactor's finished by wiring the output belt to detect a used fuel cell.

I'm tentatively setting up a box as an input buffer, so it holds exactly 1 cell, and I don't reload the box until the previous cell is done. I'm struggling with designing some combinator logic to handle this. I don't want to load 5+ cells into the reactor and have it run long past the point where my power and steam reserves are full. One thing that's tripping me up is that I want to load 1 fuel cell per reactor when the steam reserve gets low, and only load more when the first cell is exhausted.

I've got both steam storage and batteries. I don't want to run it all the time as my primary power source. I've got a small nuclear reactor setup (2 reactors) that I want to use for backup for my solar panels.

Factorio nuclear reactor setup