ATTENTION! Anyone wondering about the syncroscope wiggling, just ride it out and gradually increase, stay below 61 Hertz. It will align, the water flow has to become stable before you can sync, it takes about 30-40 seconds after getting to about 60HZ to align, also timing is key.

Hope this helps!

With even a 0.1 degree offset it still trips... what am I doing wrong? From 59.99 to 60.24 and the needle being dead on, it just doesn't sync.

@zombieland09221 do you not know what Hydroelectric mean??

@CMG100811 you control the wicket gates to change turbine rpm

@Voxelstice okay jeez it’s not a reactor but also how do I get it to the correct frequency, I don’t see any sort of control for it, all I find is the wicket, ignition, and power, plus I can’t find a control for offset neither anything I tinker with slowed it down.

@CMG100811 first of all; IT'S NOT A REACTOR. second of all, the synchrosccope wiggling is intentional. you need to get it into the correct frequency first

for some reason every time i try to start up the machine the synchroscope keeps wiggling, even if its off it keeps on going, idk how to control it or fix it so i cant start up the reactor. pls help

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@zombieland09221 This is not a reactor core

can it meltdown?

When i control the wicket gate control switch it makes me not be able to see anything and i cant do anything but i still see my cursor

how to set 5 degrees?

@Kasual what offset

thanks, but how can I adjust the offset?

@Kasual as quoted in a previous previous comment:

You just need to open the wicket gates (hold E and D) and watch the frequency (top left dial).
Once it reaches 58 hertz, adjust for the synchroscope.
Make sure it's within 5 - (-5) degrees of offset, and then you can sync.
If you try to sync while the conditions are not met, it'll trip and close the wicket gates completely

If you successfully manage to sync (indicated by the dials locking in and watts showing up), you can fully open wicket gates to maximize power generation

how to turn on the hydroelectric power station and what to do next?

@Kasual you dont need gigahertz to synchronize the thing. if you're talking about how to enable the synchroscope, switch the exciter on. you only need 60hz to synchronize the turbine to the main power grid

how to enable gigohertz?

@Rentless2GO unfortunately this is as easy as it gets while being realistic.

its annoying to start the thing can you add a easy mode? if posable?

arrow keys?

@Bob E is already occupied for interacting with the wicket gates in the first place

EQ or something other than the movement controls

@Bob well what else could i use then?

inconvinient to use ad for the wickets

@JakeTheDude motivation decides to go 📉
im working on other projects in this point of time and i just forgot about the existence of this, not sure if i'll do something about this again or not

is this still being worked on or no?

i love causing millions in dollars of infrastructural damages

@former president george w bush are you sure it's exactly 60 hertz? you might be also too out of phase so it osciliates between 2 numbers too fast, try messing around with the wicket gate a bit, maybe perhaps make it a bit faster until the numbers stabilize

When I get it to 60 Hertz it still flashes the numbers

@former president george w bush it really is from how i am calculating the phase difference
and also it's 2 sinewaves osciliating at 60 hertz so this is kind of expected, it stabilizes once you get very very close to 60 hertz

and that also means that the lights flashes a gazillion times per second

yeah the synchroscope flashes numbers in-between -156.26 and 272.41 really fucking fast so can you fix that

allright

@JakeTheDude i haven't worked on this recently, i have some other projects outside of teardown that i'd like to do. i might return to this eventually and add some more stuff

Cant wait to see what the final project will be if hes even working on one, i hope he is though, since i really like stuff like this

i cant wait to see like a dam with a turbine room xd

@CoolGuy7575 Basically yeah, just make sure it doesn't go over 62 hertz or it'll trip and close the wicket gates completely

so I just have to wait once its at 60 hz?

@CoolGuy7575 you have to get it up to the speed (around 60 hz within a tolerance of 0.1 hertz) and then you have to wait until the phase (that's what the synchroscope is showing) becomes exactly or close to the main grid (which would be -5 - 5 degrees).

it spinning even near 60 hertz is normal, that's just how it is in power plants. it's not really this easy getting your own generator into the power grid

I cant get the synchroscope to get up to 5 degrees, I barely mover the wicket and it goes to positive or negative. What am I doing wrong?

thanks

60.0 hertz*

@Drux 60 hertz

rq is it 00.60 or 60.0 hrtz

Iv used synchroscopes in many different games i have played, so i got that synchroscope idea pretty quickly lmao.

@freakphone2077 the turbine might be going too fast. try getting it between 59 and 61 hertz, then wait until the synchroscope reaches around 5 degrees of offset then you can sync

probably a good map but i could never get it to do that cause it just kep going between the negatives and positives

i tried for 20 mins to get the synchrscope to sync and it never did

Iv been wanting a hydroelectric power station FOREVER man, this is awesome, i love the fact that the more you break it down the more it starts to fail, the turbine blades look nice too!