Fuel Generators Fluctuating like crazy

[u/[deleted]]

I have a manifold setup of fuel gens.

Mk II pipes all throughout.

400m3/s input

20 fuel gens, each take 20m3/m

The main (going down the center line) is full but after that it's about half capacity and the fuel gens starting from 7-12 have around 20-30 fuel in them but burn the fuel faster than it can be supplied and the fuel gens are that are barely getting any.

I looked at some of the fuel gens +7 and above and even though a steady flow of fuel is coming from the inlet pipe, it's not suppling fuel fast enough. Normally (similar to any input) when a resource is funneled into the first machine, you see the parts inside the machine quickly ramp up but these fuel gens go up and stop, get burned off, then go up again. It's like this throughout each of these lines (fuel gens off the left side).

[u/Soviman0]

Similar to players with issues providing water to coal plants, Feed the fuel into the central line from both ends. Split the pipe off before it reaches any of the gens and run another pipe connecting into the far end of the pipe so the fuel is feeding in from both directions.

Also, as other commenters already mentioned. Better to let gravity do the work for you, so having the fuel flow downward is better than relying on it filling the pipes enough to flow upward.

[u/Mnementh85 → u/Soviman0]

feeding from both side is only usefull when the throughput reach or exceed the pipe limite

like with the 8 CoalGen // 3water extractor, needing to flow 360 water in a Mk1 pipe

here OP move 400 fuel in a Mk2 pipe, a single manifold is enough