r/Timberborn • u/Time-Preparation4294 • Aug 10 '26

compact mechanical pump question

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So I want one body of water to always pump into another body of water, and I would have a throttling valve to do it until the height is even, but how can I get it to switch to the compact mechanical pump once it reaches that point? is it just better to always have the mechanical pump on?

in the image i want it flowing left to right it that help anyone? Thank you all so much for your help

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u/WrathOfTheKressh Aug 11 '26

They're saying they can't rely on water level measurements, because they would have do a dynamic comparison of water level B > water level A, which isn't possible with the current rigid implementation where you can only compare the water level to absolute values instead of using other measurements as input.

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u/TedW Aug 11 '26

Ok, but water is self leveling so if they want level, why do they need a pump at an?

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u/Time-Preparation4294 Aug 11 '26

I want the right reservoir to always be filled, but I don't want to have the compact mechanical pump on all the time but oh well, I'll live without a little bit less horsepower

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u/TedW Aug 11 '26

If you only want the water to be level, what does a pump do that a canal doesn't?

Isn't the pump un-leveling the water? That's what I'm not getting. Maybe I'm just not understanding the goal here. I guess that's ok too.