Stationeers Let's play Mars 50 Sign off



Today we fly the final of the rockets and then take a look back at the base and what we have done. Then it is time to put the cat out for the night and say goodbye to mars base for now.

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  1. Thankyou for another interesting series Mick, looking forward to the next.

    Iโ€™ll say, that last moment is haunting.

    โ€œThe over-eager Stationeer, in his bid to destroy narcotic laden felines, had forgotten that the felines, not unlike a Hydra, simply reappear upon destruction, greater in number.

    Tโ€™was when the smoke of his triumph had settled, did the realisation of his folly appear, for on turning from window, he was greeted not by the quiet he expected, but rather the soulless, unflinching gaze of more feline eyes than he could countโ€.

    (I suspect my English teacher would be proud of that lol).

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  2. Mick, crazy idea….a little history: the pressure fed gas engine (40kN) can take premixed fuel, just tie both inputs together. i also used a small inline tank as a volume buffer, i was able to get help from the disc on how to keep the pressure stable via a PID controller. its 3 math calculations. needing 2 pipe analyzers and a reg vol pump, input ana = my fuel supply, output ana = pipes feeding the eng.
    math 1 mol/L input ana TotalMol/Volume (note pipes and inline tanks only)
    math 2 moll needed (n) n=(PV)(RT)
    P = Pressure in this case its (Target pressure – current pressure) (ie 57MPa-output ana Pressure)
    V-Volume of feed pipes (my case it 140L)
    R = Gas Constant = 8.31446261815324

    T -Temperature in K from the fuel supply
    math 3 vol pump Setting = n/mol per L
    so my maths were:
    math 1 48192.391/2370L=20.33434219409283 mol/L

    math 2 n= (57000-57101.828) x 140L/8.31446261815324 x 265.931 = -14,255.92/2,211.073358508109 = -6.447511090097428
    math 3 vol pump Setting = -6.447511090097428/20.33434219409283 = -0.3170749773243436
    note if the answer is negative, like above then you will need a bltz r0 somewhere , s volumepump Setting 0, j start, for a volume pump cant write in a negative number.
    saying that above the crazy idea is, instead of mixing liq fuel on the go, premix liq fuel w/ N2 as the pressuring gas, connect the liq pipes that feed the eng together (3 pipe segements, 60L capacity) fed by both a liq vol regulator set to like 95% (no idea what this should be) and a pressurant valve set to 5.5 MPa, pressurant valve is fed from a 110L capacity (1 pipe for an pipe ana, and 1 inline tank) and using the PID above to keep this "mini feed" N2 pressure high, like 57-59 MPa with a larger N2 gas source
    if a liq regulator cant keep up with demand, then idk how to "PID" a liq vol pump, maybe set it to auto increase/decrease based on totalvolumeofliquid on the eng feed pipes

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  3. Another absolutely fantastic play through Mick. I've learnt a great deal from you yet again. And your level of humour matches mine so I spent a good amount of time absolutely pmsl. Especially the cats at the end, lol.

    Suggestions for your next play through should you choose to do one.

    The Moon or Europa. Seeing you tackle both of these with the phase change would be brilliant.

    I am currently doing a brutal start in the moon, and it's been a huge challenge trying not to starve to death.

    Until the next time Mick, happy rapid disassembly hehe.

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