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Advanced Smeltery

Let's smelt everything in single advanced furnace!

- single circuit solution
- automated pressure and temperature control
- quickly melts all known alloys and ores in a safe way
- automatically ejects alloy when ready
- moderate fuel consumption
- looks pretty good and friendly :)

you need to build pressurized room with elementary cooling system for it. Otherwise it will work rather unstable.

1. Build room around furnace and cooling system - at least one passive vent on the inside and one radiator on the outside, connected to the same pipe(see picture). An active vent is also be useful, or any other way to change the pressure inside the room. Add chutes and style as you like.

2. Connect devices in one network - IC Housing, Advanced Furnace, at least one Console with Hash display motherboard, LED light, Lever and a Dial. Set devices on IC Housing screws(see picture):
d0 - Dial
d1 - Lever
d2 - LED light
d3 - Furnace

3. Insert data disk into console with hash display and select IC Housing - it provides picture for selected recipe. Not necessary, but if you have two more consoles with gas display motherboard - insert data disk into it, select furnace and choose mode to display(pressure or temperature).

4. Now, the complex part:
Before turn it on, you need to achieve pressure below 20kPa inside the pressurized room. After furnace heats up, you may want to change pressure inside the room or rebuild cooling system - it's on your own. The idea is that the furnace will slowly cooled down, around 10 degrees per second. So, if you want it to work faster increase the cooling, but it will be more difficult for the furnace to hit the narrow temperature window for some alloys. And vice versa, if you decrease the cooling too much you will have to wait forever until it reaches the target temperature :)

After everything is up and powered(and provided with fuel!), rotate dial to select recipe and look at hash display - it should switch picture. There are 7 options:
0 - Astroloy
1 - Hastelloy
2 - Inconel
3 - Waspaloy
4 - Stellite
5 - Invar
6 - Other alloys(Constantan, Electrum, Solder, Steel and simple ores for sure)
Then pull lever - LED should turn on - and throw ore into furnace. That's all! If you dropped correct ingredients, the furnace will return the correct alloy.
When you done, pull up lever - furnace will stop.

Melting simple ores - furnace will not eject them automatically. So, after you put a few stacks of Iron(or any other ore) and the yellow light changes to the green, pull the lever - furnace will eject everything. Just don't mix different ores if you don't want to get an alloy or a reagent mix :)

LED colors:
Red light - indicates that the pressure or temperature is out of range
Yellow light - something in the furnace import slot, trying to melt it
Green light - pressure and temperature in range, waiting

P.S. I've reached the lines limit. Sorry guys, but this is a completely unreadable piece of ... code. So I do not recommend learning programming by this, except that you are really interested in how it was compressed :) First, it would be better to check my other work Smeltery - it works similarly to this one, but much easier to understand.