Electric Heaters
FE-powered heat sources for Create basins, mixers, boilers and TFMG distillation towers. Released in ZalienFuel 0.4.0.
Two electric heat sources that replace the Blaze Burner. They exist only when Create is installed.
| Block | Look | Heat | FE draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Heater | copper / bronze | heated (same as a lit Blaze Burner) | 40 FE/t |
| Superheated Electric Heater | steel | heated, or superheated (like a Blaze Burner with Blaze Cake) | 60 FE/t heated, 160 FE/t superheated |
Placement and connections
- Put the machine on top. A Create basin (also a mixer's basin), a boiler / steam tank, or a TFMG distillation tower, steel tank or vat above the heater sees the same heat as above a Blaze Burner.
- Connect power and coolant from below. The energy and fluid inputs are on the bottom face only; the top is the heated machine and the sides have no ports. Use cables, connectors and pipes under the block (or a bucket, right-click, for coolant).
- Redstone: a redstone signal switches a heater off.
- Goggles (Create engineer's goggles) show heat level, FE buffer, coolant, group size and the group's FE/t.
- Light level: off 0, heated 10, superheated 15.
Shared power groups
Heaters that touch each other horizontally (same height, either tier) share power. The heater that is fed pays for
the whole group: the group draws the sum of every member's cost from a shared pool of buffers (four touching basic
heaters fed at one point drain 4 x 40 FE/t). If the pool cannot pay for everything, every superheater drops to heated;
if it cannot pay for that either, the whole group turns off. Starting from off needs a few seconds of buffered cost
(no flickering on a weak supply). Groups are capped at 64 heaters (heaterGroupMax).
Superheated mode and coolant
The Superheated Electric Heater has a coolant tank (zalienfuel:coolant, 4000 mB, 25 mB/s while superheated).
Currently the superheated mode needs only FE: superheaterRequiresCoolant defaults to false.
Coolant will be produced by the upcoming Industrial Cooler; once it ships the option can
be switched on. Without coolant (when required) the heater stays at heated, there is no explosion.
Coolant is not shared between heaters: each superheater needs its own, from below.
Recipes
Shaped crafting table recipes. They only load when Create and a capacitor mod (Create Crafts & Additions or TFMG) are installed. Capacitor: either mod's, depending on the pack.
Electric Heater
P
BP
I
CIPBP
- P Copper plate
- B Brass ingot
- I Iron ingot
- C Capacitor (Create Crafts & Additions or TFMG)
Superheated Electric Heater
SCSS
HSSCS
- S Steel ingot
- C Capacitor (Create Crafts & Additions or TFMG)
- H Electric Heater
Config
heaterBufferFe 10000, electricHeaterFePerTick 40, superheaterHeatedFePerTick 60, superheaterSuperFePerTick 160,
superheaterCoolantMbPerSecond 25, superheaterTankMb 4000, superheaterRequiresCoolant false, heaterGroupMax 64.
Full list: Configuration. Debug: /zalienfuel heat <pos>, see Admin commands.