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14 hours ago, XyFreak said:

If BRGC does not set the fuel rods then something is broken. It does that every .5 seconds so....

I'll try to reproduce the issue but by the looks of it something is going wrong somewhere... is there any way for me to debug it on-site

I mean, i guess it could be setting the fuel rods, but it hasn't dialed the insertion way up like it was before.

Sure! I'll send you a PM with connection info, etc. Thanks!

On 12/7/2018 at 4:13 PM, XyFreak said:

@squidflex 
So everything is hooked up. Can you please hit the "CHARGE" button on the GUI and see if that changes anything for you? If it does then BRGC simply decides, that it's overproducing energy. Although 1600 mB/t sounds odd (as it should be 2000 mB/t -> 1 turbine).

I enabled charging and I tried recalibrating the reactor as well.
It still increases the fuel rods until the reactor is only producing 1.86mB/t of steam.

Hmm...I just manually changed the fuel rod insertion back to 0% and it seems to be running fine now.
BRGC hasn't tried to adjust the fuel rods since then, the 4.00B/t is reporting properly on the displays, and the turbines are approaching optimal speed.
Maybe it's something with my setup?

Thanks!

41 minutes ago, Luke Brehm said:

I'm not an expert but as far as I know you need to hook the turbines in because BRGC will adjust your reactor to output exactly what the turbines need, without the turbines hooked up it could be confused. 

The other possibility is that you need to use the GUI, to go to the battery page and click charge, by default it will try to produce the same amount of power that you are currently using therefore keeping the battery at a steady level instead of charging to max. 

I'm not sure of exactly what the button names are so those are approximate instructions. 

Hope one of those things helps! 

Ah, my bad...I omitted that I've tried setting up BRGC a few times now. Even with the turbines and the Energy Core attached, BRGC sets the rod insertion upwards of 96%.

This improves fuel depletion considerably, but it greatly reduces the amount of steam produced.

As expected, if I disconnect the OC cable from the reactor and reduce the rod insertion, the steam output is fine again.

With the turbines attached to BRGC, the controller shuts down one of the turbines after increasing rod insertion to 96% or higher.

Should I only run one turbine off my reactor?

Thanks!

I'm having some trouble with BRGC...
I have an actively cooled reactor running two turbines, which are charging a Draconic Evolution Energy Core.

Without BRGC, the reactor produces 4000mB/t steam, which is piped out to the turbines. After connecting only the reactor to BRGC, it calibrated and set the rod insertion to 96% or higher.
This cuts steam output down to about 1600mB/t and my turbines are barely spinning. Why does BRGC set the rod insertion so high?

I assume I'm doing something wrong here, but I'm not sure what. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!