Draconic Reactors, ComputerCraft, and eliminating explosions

Hey all, wanted to share some progress I've had on FTB (node 5)

I've been loving the OPness of Draconic Evolution, especially the reactors it comes with, and combined with my love of automation, I've tried numerous CC scripts that attempt to keep this up, and finally decided I'd write my own from scratch :



This script is currently mainly targeted on keeping the reactor from exploding, not as much maxing it out (yet). Here is a list of features from my readme:

• uses a 3x3 advanced computer monitor to display all the stats of your reactor
• regulates the input gate for the targeted field strength of 50%
  • adjustable
• immediate shutdown and charge upon your field strength going below 20%
  • adjustable
  • reactor will activate upon a successful charge
• immediate shutdown when your temperature goes above 8000C
  • adjustable
  • reactor will activate upon temperature cooling down to 3000C
    • adjustable
• easily tweak your output flux gate via touchscreen
  • +/-100k, 10k, and 1k increments

You can find more details, installation instructions, and other information here :

GitHub - acidjazz/drmon: Draconic Reactor computercraft monitoring and failsafe script

Please feel free to try this out, and I'd really appreciate any feedback, I really would like to get this script as stable as possible. So far with a couple days of stress testing in SP and on the server I think I've eliminated most scenarios that lead to loss, but there's always room for improvement. If you are having any issues getting this running or just need someone to help you feel free to reach out!

Thanks!

-asidjazz

 

@chugga_fan

 

you act as if i haven't seen this already lol

 

Always best to check with you, you know this stuff better than i

 

good work m8, the monitoring really looks nice. so thats allready a reason to change my reactors asap

 

sure looks like a great system good job

 

Much appreciated everyone, looking forward to your feedback;

Quick update, I've been doing a ton of more testing, lots of fixes and improvements, most especially a couple huge finds:



Manual mode for the Input gate, now you can take complete control of both gates via the monitor, and solely use drmon for failsafe functionality.


I had a reactor blow on node 5, looking into it I found the chunk loaded w/out the comptuer booting up, steveisaspy had a great suggestion I've been trying out that's worked well so far, an autonomous activator against the computer to make sure it turns on (you can use os.shutdown() to test if its working, it should boot back up and start up drmon w/in seconds)




I'll be adding more detail on the github repo.


-asidjazz

 

maybe you can also disable the AA by the computers redstone control when it's running.

 

That's really cool dude should try that when I get back seems way more neat than usual interface

 

is there a way to get the reactor to start again after the stopping part (8000 degrees +) earlier, like i dont wanna wait till its stops then start again, just after hitting 8000 stop until about 6000 then start again?[DOUBLEPOST=1470126544][/DOUBLEPOST]ps i left mine on, and it exploded later on, why?

 

You may have chunkloaded only half of you setup or so.