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Significantly updates the Engineering guidebook (more explicitly the Atmos section) to have a lot more relevant and useful information. Right now engineering has been getting update after update with no real change to the relevant guidebook entry. This has lead to a lot of out of date information and bad practices being prevalent in the guidebook, something that pains me to read.
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# Air Scrubber
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The air scrubber is essential in maintaining an atmosphere free of waste gasses emitted by breathing creatures and atmospheric upsets.
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Its primary job is to scrub unwanted gasses from the atmosphere it's exposed to.
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasVentScrubber"/>
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The air scrubber requires [textlink="power" link="Power"] through a nearby [textlink="LV cable" link="VoltageNetworks"] to function.
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The default behavior of an air scrubber is to scrub all gasses except Nitrogen and Oxygen from the atmosphere it's exposed to. It will continue this behavior unless directed by a [textlink="linked" link="Networking"] [textlink="air alarm" link="AirAlarms"].
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The scrubber can be welded with any welding tool to stop it from functioning.
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## Configuration Options
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When [textlink="linked" link="Networking"] to an [textlink="air alarm" link="AirAlarms"], air scrubbers gain more functionality.
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The target gasses for scrubbing can be defined in the "Gas filters" dropdown. Keep in mind this resets if you change [textlink="air alarm" link="AirAlarms"] modes.
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Air scrubbers have two "direction" options: Scrubbing and Siphoning.
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- Scrubbing scrubs gasses as defined in the gas filters.
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- Siphoning ignores all gas filters, and sucks all gasses out of the atmosphere.
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Both of these modes are limited by the Rate setting, which defines the rate (in litres) at which the scrubber sucks gasses from its exposed atmosphere.
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Air scrubbers also have a "WideNet" setting, which expands the radius of the scrubber's operating range. Normally, the scrubber scrubs the atmosphere on the single tile it's exposed to.
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In WideNet mode, the scrubber scrubs gas from the 4 tiles surrounding the scrubber, as shown:
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This effectively multiplies its total speed, as air scrubbers will now preform their scrubbing work on 5 tiles at once.
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Scrubbers [textlink="linked" link="Networking"] to an [textlink="air alarm" link="AirAlarms"] in auto mode will automatically enable WideNet mode under the [textlink="air alarm's" link="AirAlarms"] "Filtering (Wide)" mode when a high concentration of unwanted gasses is detected in the atmosphere.
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WideNet is extremely useful in quickly scrubbing large amounts of tritium from plasma burn chambers.
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