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[Q] POS Silo -> Silo
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Toma Re
Event Horizon Ships
#1 - 2012-11-26 16:15:53 UTC
Hello!

is it possible to link from Silo A to Silo B to extend the room for an output material?

Example Gallente POS each Silo has 40k m³ so i can store with 2 silos inline 80k m³ or will everything over 40k m³ lost?

thanks
Toma
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#2 - 2012-11-26 16:34:47 UTC
Toma Re wrote:
Hello!

is it possible to link from Silo A to Silo B to extend the room for an output material?

Example Gallente POS each Silo has 40k m³ so i can store with 2 silos inline 80k m³ or will everything over 40k m³ lost?

thanks
Toma

I do not believe it is possible to link silos in this way. But you can link several coupling arrays in line with a silo at the end to expand your storage. I believe coupling arrays are also affected by the storage expansion of a gellente POS.
Kusum Fawn
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-11-26 16:54:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Kusum Fawn
Yes you can link silos in this way. silos will empty out (or fill) in the way that they are linked

silo A - silo B - reactor
Silo A will appear to empty while silo b remains full. Material will be moved from A to B on the tower cycle as material is removed from Silo B by the reactor.

Material movement is dependant on free space and not cycle requirements so if you remove half of the material in silo B, it will be full on the next cycle from silo A as long as material is available.

this is also true in reverse

Reactor - Silo A - Silo B

Silo B will fill as Silo A seems to only have one cycle worth of material in it, when silo B is filled Silo A will fill.
couplings act the same way

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2012-11-27 00:10:08 UTC
Kusum Fawn wrote:
Yes you can link silos in this way. silos will empty out (or fill) in the way that they are linked

silo A - silo B - reactor
Silo A will appear to empty while silo b remains full. Material will be moved from A to B on the tower cycle as material is removed from Silo B by the reactor.

Material movement is dependant on free space and not cycle requirements so if you remove half of the material in silo B, it will be full on the next cycle from silo A as long as material is available.

this is also true in reverse

Reactor - Silo A - Silo B

Silo B will fill as Silo A seems to only have one cycle worth of material in it, when silo B is filled Silo A will fill.
couplings act the same way

Confirming the above. Big smile
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#5 - 2012-11-27 14:42:49 UTC
good to know. in situations like this I am glad to be wrong.Big smile
Matt Ellis
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-11-27 15:25:17 UTC
is this the same linking process as to how you set up reactions in the first place?
Alexandra Lingwa
CALIMA COLLABORATIVE
Atrox Urbanis Respublique Abundatia
#7 - 2012-11-27 17:47:42 UTC
Yes the linking process is the same as the reaction linking process. You can just add extra silos and they will fill up the last in the chain, then the next to last, etc...

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