Oxygen Not Included HowTo - Comparing Aqua Tuner vs. Thermo Regulator

In this video I am trying to explain why you should always use Thermo Aqua Tuners for any cooling instead of the Thermo Regulator.

For that I created a little setup to compare both devices. By insulating the rooms where the cooling device is located, I make sure all the heat from each system will only be transfered to this room. As you see in the video, the room that contains the aquatuner, heats up twice as fast. Therefor the heat transfer from the cooling loop is twice as much.

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[korturas]

Thermo regulators have some excellent uses.
They allow for earlier access to super cold applications like liquid oxygen due to the ability to cool hydrogen down to -250c. Aquatuners need supercoolant to achieve that. The closest they can get without it is -70 with ethanol.
They allow you to specifically target certain areas for cooling without having to weave around existing liquid piping. For example, I use an aquatuner to create a tank of near-frozen polluted water, then use that to cool various other loops to specific temperatures (for growing sleetwheat at 3c, bristle blossoms at 20c, living quarters at 25c etc) but I run a regulator to cool the freezer for my food since it means I don't have to weave around the living quarters temperature and sanitation pipework, and the quarters cooling takes care of its heat output.
So to say that you should not use regulators is imo not good advice.
If you want bulk cooling yes your best choice is an AT, but for spot-cooling or early supercooling you can and imo should use regulators.

[Seython]

Great video, now it finally makes senses to me. Mostly is the mass of material cooled per pipe segment. I would say cooling with air has the advantage of hitting a lower temp when you dont have access to super coolant although that is generally not useful, unless you want to freeze carbon dioxide or chlorine.

[michaelrichards]

Interesting application of both, use the aqua tuner to cool the thermo so the the thermo can bring anything -220 early game

[dougingraham]

What you are saying is all true. However, a single Thermo Regulator using Hydrogen as the coolant is all that is needed to make enough LOX to easily keep up with a single rocket in spaced out. From that point of view the Aqua Tuner uses five times the power of the Thermo Regulator. Several solar panels (number depends on the asteroid) and some batteries will make your LOX and no super coolant needed. I've even made LOX without a steam turbine by heating water, turning it to steam and then throwing the steam away into space. How low tech can you go? If you want to use the game exploit of limiting the amount of material in a pipe you can probably even make liquid hydrogen with a Thermal Regulator. I've never done that because I consider it an exploit. I know that others consider it a part of the game and that is fine.

Thanks for the video.

[archtr]

it depends on your current power grid,
since thermo regulator use power same as gas pump, just produce more heat,
and how about Wheezewort in hydrogen ?

[AndreCampos_A]

I use 4 thermo regulator to cool the oxygen from my 3 electrolysis room.

[purona]

I thought thermo regulator was for air conditioning oxygen thats too hot....