Yes, finally up-to-date how to cool modular engines video man I wish I had this one. I was playing stormworks a while ago.

and if you didnt know, you dont have to have both sides of the coolant manifold connected, you can have one connected to one end of the rad and another one on the other side

you make amazing videos never stop making them

I built a ship with a 4 cylinder 3x3 Engine, I used radiator cooling (on all slot things) but it didnt cool a single bit, then i use ocean cooling, still, no cooling, and this video will probably help me with making a better cooling system to actually cool my 4 cylinder engine.

Also, for people here struggling with cooling... if you have a setup with a radiator, and your engine is overheating, it is simply because the load on your engine is too high. The LOAD on the engine is what cause most of the heat. If it happens, reduce the gearing ratio... iff it still overheat at a low gear setup, add a cylinder to your engine... until it stops overheating. I have small engine not overheating at 30 rps... but you need to keep the load reasonable (like in real life..)

Love the Peguin on the thumbnail.

W video yet again 454ss

One important thing: they changed the radiators to be realistic, meaning that they transfer more heat to the ambient when they are hotter, always wait on these tests until the temp ist up to 80 degrees, on some of my creations, the engines heat up quickly but hold the temp at 80-90 degrees. Another thing is that I like to use impellers as pumps, since they are not depended on the battery/generator and are powered by the engine. On the question whether a low or high flow rate is better, I can give a simple answer, if the engine overheats but the radiators are cold, you need to increase flow rate and therefore heat transfer between the engine and the radiator, if the radiator is overheating you just have too less, there is no workaround other than adding more (or other forms of cooling, e. g. air-liquid heat exchangers) this also explains the thing whether multiple radiators in series are better than in parallel, just like the flow rate, if the engine is overheating but the radiators arent, add more pumps/parallel radiators, if the radiators are overheating, you can put some in series. Furthermore, the difference in the temp increase for the difference in flow rate is also just an illusion, the higher flowrate will obviously cool the engine more, but the radiators will heat up faster too, so it comes our to the same result, for short cool lines, one small pump on each, way to and back from the radiator(s) is fine. Otherwise good video with interesting results!

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Based on my experiments yesterday I tried: - Air intakes from a fixed volume structure - Exhaust into a vacuum chamber (the update yesterday let’s you use fluid spanner’s to set the atmos. to 1%) (fyi setting it to zero just fills it with air at STP) - Partially filled Fuel tanks (2 at 50% air: Diesel vs 1 at 100% diesel) that provide air intake AND fuel intake (with an air-in syphon valve) AFR set at 14.0 and at 30 RPS, to a large Generator, no gearing My findings: the fuel always run out first before the air ran out, or the exhaust pressure became a factor, lol 3 hours spent failing at least showed me it makes no difference :P lol Edit: One thing I will say: if you’re using modular alternators and electric coolant pumps etc, these need to be taken into account when we’re talking about energy *generated*, I used a separate circuit for the pumps, modular alternators etc, because if the watts you’re recording are also feeding the electric pumps then you’re technically producing “less” than you’re actually recording My modular alternators feed a separate circuit (linked with the starters and the pumps), and have the generator feeding an empty battery (with only the generator connected to it), as we’re talking about an diesel generator setup, we need to look at *net* power output, ie the battery charge accrued, not just watts per second (that you kay also feed the pumps from)

Have major cooling problems with a 14 cylinder 5x5 box engine hoping this will help

Does parallel or series radiators have an effect?

Does anyone know why batteries drain so quickly?. i haven't had this problem before. I do have like a million things hooked up to the batteries, but even then, the batteries would drain slowly, but now they drain quick.

this may work with a generator but it doesnt work with my boat 3x3 modular inline 5 engine. So stupid this game cant fix the overheating. I put 2 pumps and a radiator per cylinder and still goes over 110°C

The fuel tanks have a pressure output now. My plane engines seem to stall randomly after 5-10min of flying even if my main and reserve tank are like 80% Full and the intakes are at the bottom of the tank (some at the front and some at the back in case of tilt) + I got 2 small pumps on each engine to make sure the fuel pressure is high enough. It seems like the problem just won't stop existing... I tested air filters and air scoop intakes, cooling (but the engines fail before overheating) etc... They just stop. Definetly weird Wait, could that be because my tanks need a bleeder valve? I guess it shouldnt be a problem after such a short amount of time, but I will try it out

Are you displaying the radiator temp or the block temp? Also, in all of my research and attempts to cool these medium modular engines GrumpyOldMan's article and configuration was the best thing I could find. I have adjusted it slightly to add more water to the system to find optimal flow rate, and it works extremely well.

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15:19 fuel tank pressure

Still don't understand how cooling works. why just dropping two pipes into the ocean at the same level when it shows zero circulation cools better than the same thing but with a pump (one or two).

Update pipeline addon please, I'm quite literally begging you.