Induction Heater
Dragnier opened this issue ยท 3 comments
How much power does the Induction heater take to work anyway? I've got two basic steam dynamos (max 80 rf/t) running into one and it only gets a Standard Melting Crucible up to 532K. Compared to a Burner Heater with a single Block of Coal hitting 1950+K, that seems a bit ridiculous since that same block of coal makes about 240,000 RF in a steam dynamo and RF should be more efficient than solid fuel even in its basic production form.
The purpose is to encourage player to use more approaches to heat rather than energy. I will make is coefficient configurable in the future
I can see how you would want to encourage that. What if the induction heater could have an addon block? I know a lot of electric based heating for smelting still requires some form of pre-heater. You could have the pre-heater required to get the heat up but as long as the induction heater had a certain amount of power flow that heat level could be maintained for a much longer time than solid/liquid fuel alone.
This would overall reduce fuel and energy requirements while also adding an interesting mechanic.