SS14 - Hyper Convection Machines Explained (And How to Deal With the Heat) 

If anyone has better methods of cooling hyperconvection machines, please share them in the comments. I'm just giving base level ideas of how to manage the heat. This is probably the best method: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wcRa3VT8SqE.htmlsi=ltXAfd5i_JsURHlZ

Pro tip, you can surround this machines with AIRTIGHT plastic flaps, you can interact through them and they won't let hot air out

Setting up and fixing hellfire freezer loops since 2023, good lort it impresses me how few atmos techs can do it correctly

man i remember at frointer station, someone put a hyper convection lathe and me, not knowing it produces heat, prints 100 hyper parts and made the room (cargo) a death zone.

Now I'm imagining the amount of heat you pump out in Frontier. "Oh, I want an upgrade of 12 thrusters, that is 48 capacitors right there. And I also want the gyro upgraded, two generators, the ore processor, and a few toys like advanced magboots." A casual 75 parts later and the walls are melting, and not from the space drugs

My thought from my limited atmos knowledge, if you're working in a room near the edge of the station: - Create a circular pipe loop between the lathe room and space. - Include a connector port and a pump to be able to dump the contents of a can into the loop. (This does not need to be in the lathe room. Put it wherever along the loop.) - Add a pump to move contents of the pipe in a circle. - Add a couple radiators to the pipe both in the lathe room and out in space. The more the better, especially out in space. - Get a can of CO2 (or whatever, but CO2 seems best offhand) from Atmos or wherever and dump it into the loop. (Set the insertion pump to max to drain the can into the loop.) If needed add a second can, but one should be plenty. - Make sure the pump is running to circulate the CO2 through the loop. Not sure what power setting is best. If my understanding is right, the CO2 in the loop should be forced out into space, where the radiators will chill the fuck out of the CO2. The chilled stuff comes back inside, where the radiators from the warm room should absorb the heat into the cold gas, which is then sent back out to be chilled. I'm completely theory-crafting here, but the thought is to use the same process as to cool a nuclear reactor, cycling stuff through to absorb the heat and then venting that heat off to something else (in this case, outer space). Whether this will work at all with SS14 physics or whether it will provide enough cooling if it does work, I don't know. If your shift's Atmos is bored (which they probably are), try recruiting them to help you build and test this concept! Have the RD ask the CE for help; we're usually looking for things for our people to do if there aren't bombs going off or whatever.

On a server I play we can make little fans with 4 gold ingots, so managing heat becomes a breeze

Generally what I do is place two space heaters near my hyper convection machines. You can usually do some light re-arranging to comfortably work around them. Set the space heaters to high power and lower the target temp to have a buffer to work with. Combine this with some fancy NT insulated clothing and you're pretty much fine in terms of temperature. If you're not running the clothing, you may be toasted a bit in small rooms but you can just leave the room for a few seconds, and chat at the front desk or whatever. I've seen paranoid RD's spend a quarter of a shift stuffing the hyper convection protolathe into a 2 by 3 box in maints and attempt to setup a hellfire cooling loop. While it is satisfying when it works and cranks out a lot of parts, it's much simpler to spend less than a crate of steel and a little bit of plastic on flatpacking two bluespace heaters. All in the pursuit of science!

You can close them with a holographic atmosphere projector, you can put a hyperconvection autolat on a tile with a small fan, you can build a sealed plastic curtain on the tile. All these options will not allow air to escape from the tile and the room will not heat up.

I mean, considering that now we can MAKE airtight flaps, you could put a airtight flap ON the lathes and just.. print freely.. considering that the heat will just stay in that one tile.

Playing salv and watching sci say “we cant afford to research industrial ore processor” 40 minutes in hurts more now. I never realized you could literally do it as your first research

Personally, as a lizard, I don't mind the heat :p

If you get your hands on a holofan you can put it right ontop of the machine with the same setup you use here in the arti room and the vent will only suck out the tile in the holofan and the hot air cant get out.

You don't have to build entirely new machines. Since the only difference is the board you can just disassemble the existing ones and replace the board. Saves even more materials, is faster, and you avoid anyone using the old lathes. You should upgrade cargo too.

the materials saved makes this really tempting to use on frontier, I might just be lazy and unlock atmospherics technology and make a freezer in the lathe room

Maybe you could also make a freezer and pump equal amounts of cold air in from distribution to what you're pumping out with the waste

Imagine if putting a hyper convection on top of a gas port made it function as an exhaust extractor, depositing hot air into the port with much less radiant heat put into the general environment.

I just checked and it seems you can build radiators that supposedly equalize heat between the environment and gas in a pipe! This might be the source of a more practical custom cooling system for such machines. Sad there doesn't seem to be a heat pump, though. At any rate, with some cleverness, I'd assume pumping heat into the station's waste gas (which is likely to be merely dumped overboard like open-cycle coolant) would be more power efficient than magicking it away with freezers.

Yeah Salv not being focused on mining can be a pain. What I really don’t like though is when Salvage takes the ore processor from Cargo. I just don’t understand the salvs that do that. Gives them even less reason to come back to station and basically forces Cargo to have faith Salv will deliver mats or Fulton them back. Which given the state of Salv you can’t always believe.

You can't overheat the air if there's no air *breaks the window to space*

i saw people walling off hyper convection lathes with plastic flap things. Not sure if it works

hey! Could you make a tutorial about mailing, and the mail system. i recieve mail sometimes, but i dont get how to send an rest.

I'll have to experiment with atmos to see what'd be a good way to cool a room. I'd ideally have a room I space while wearing a EVA suit

Was so confused the other day playing cargo. Was trying to find the advanced parts. So these upgraded machines replaced the upgarded parts?

force Salvage to get materials in return for "skeleton keys" that come out of the ore machines that can open loot crates in salvage missions lol

It's no hellburn, but it gets pretty spicy.

Could we get a video on stealth ops by chance?

Hey liten! Can you do a tutorial on how to use the REPD?? It would help a lot on how to upgrade these machines..

So instead of upgrading parts like in SS13, we upgrade the board.

What about conecting a cooler to sci crafting room distro?

You could use freezer in the second part.

My suggestion is to force salv to mine by making their ship require plasma fuel

Wait space heater can cool rooms?

isn't it easier to ask an engineer to make a small room with depressurization?

14:31 “we can see the heat” as he just cropped out the room temp information lol. He’s done it again

Couldn't you just leave them out in space?

Can we get a good clowning tutorial one day ? That role is so hard to be fill

WHAT 50% LESS?!?!?