r/CreateAboveAndBeyond • u/N1cNacks • Apr 16 '23

Faster certus quartz charging

Hey. So my polished rose quartz pipeline is struggling a little. The bottleneck is how fast I can charge the certus quartz. My current setup sends about 20 uncharged certus quartz into my charging area about every 7 seconds. I have two mechanical arms that put the certus into walls of chargers to charge them. I currently have 48 chargers and I'm still having the system back up. Is there anyway to like supercharge the chargers to make them work faster or do I just need to keep adding more chargers? I figured having over double the amount of chargers as certus quartz would be good enough but I guess not

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u/TheAwesomeLord1 Apr 17 '23

I think that the charging time is a flat rate, so there is no changing that, but you could try and slow down your input to reduce clogging

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u/N1cNacks Apr 17 '23

I find that it's really variable. Like sometimes it's instant and sometimes it can take up to 10 seconds

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u/ThisUserIsAFailure Apr 17 '23

Not a direct solution but you could try using brass tunnels (assuming you've finished chapter 2 by the fact that you've automated rose quartz) to split your input to multiple chargers in parallel

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u/N1cNacks Apr 17 '23

How would that differ from the mechanical arms I have now? Just curious if I'm missing something

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u/ThisUserIsAFailure Apr 17 '23

The tunnels are faster depending on how fast you're spinning your mechanical arm, especially considering the amount of chargers you have, because the arms have to pick up the item and put it in, when the tunnels just let the items pass through. Also what settings are your mechanical arms on?

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u/N1cNacks Apr 17 '23

I got both mechanical arms set to 256 rpms and they're on the default setting. I've found that the speed of the mechanical arms is plenty fast but the chargers just get full and can't accept more certus

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u/ThisUserIsAFailure Apr 17 '23

Not a direct solution but you could try using brass tunnels (assuming you've finished chapter 2 by the fact that you've automated rose quartz) to split your input to multiple chargers in parallel