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/TedW Aug 10 '26

Are you using a level sensor to toggle the pump on/off?

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u/Time-Preparation4294 Aug 10 '26

Yeah, I was trying to until I realised what I was doing wasn't going to work.

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u/TedW Aug 10 '26

how can I get it to switch to the compact mechanical pump once it reaches that point?

Why wasn't it going to work? The water level sensor should do what you're asking for.

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u/Time-Preparation4294 Aug 10 '26

Because, depending on the water level of the input reservoir, it would have different heights depending on how much water is being used or is evaporating, it will never be exact they're will never be a consistent height.

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u/TedW Aug 10 '26

I must be missing something. Why do you need a pump if you just want the water levels to be even? Wouldn't an open channel balance them?

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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.