Maximizing Coal Power with Hard water Limit
Hi All. First Satisfactory Game, trying to figure out how to get the maximum power out of my coal plants when I've got a hard upper limit on how much water I can supply them. I'm about to transition to Oil power, but I'm basically at max power capacity and need to squeeze out every watt i can til I can bring it online.
So. I have a pure sulfur & pure coal node supplying 270/min compacted-coal to 16 coal plants all overclocked to 150%. I have found that I have more than enough fuel to crank them all the way to 200% or higher. But if I do that, they run out of water and start shutting down.
The problem is that the only water source in reasonable distance of the plant (ie not on the other side of my map) can only supply a maximum of six (maybe seven) water extractors. Head Lift is not an issue as the water source is Uphill from the power plant and feeds it from the top.
Each water extractor has its own dedicated mk1 pipe and is cranked to 250%. They are divided into two groups of 3, each leading to a pipe manifold with a loopback built over top of the coal plants, like so.
W W W
|______|______|
C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C
|_____________|
I just got access to valves. How do I maximize the power output when my maximum possible water flow is 1,800m^(3)/s?