Does the angle of the wind affect the windmill?

[VibeCenter]

hihi!!!! Building some new windmills in my 1.22 world. Currently in the tin bronze era, so nothing too fancy, but I noticed whenever I hooked my windmill up to the helve hammer / pulverizer, it became unreasonably slow. I moved it up a bit to try and help it, and even with the wind being a gale, it doesn't seem to be doing much.

from what i see in my world, the wind seems to hit a wall before going to my windmill. I've read that it doesnt affect it, but I didn't know if anything changed with new updates! Thanks <-my seraph and her windmill 

[LadyWYT]

Wind direction is currently static, so there's no angles to consider. Windmills do produce turbulence though, so if you have multiple windmills and place them too close to each other they can lose efficiency that way. That's not a factor here though.

19 minutes ago, VibeCenter said:

I noticed whenever I hooked my windmill up to the helve hammer / pulverizer, it became unreasonably slow.

Helve hammers require a lot of power in order to function, and pulverizers require a fair amount as well. Your windmill should be big enough to power either one though, assuming there's a decent wind. I'm guessing what's likely happened is that you're trying to use your windmill to power both at once, and a single basic windmill doesn't produce enough power for that. I'd recommend either implementing toggle switches so you're only ever running the machine you need at the time, or building separate windmills to power each machine.

[VibeCenter]

20 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Wind direction is currently static, so there's no angles to consider. Windmills do produce turbulence though, so if you have multiple windmills and place them too close to each other they can lose efficiency that way. That's not a factor here though.

Helve hammers require a lot of power in order to function, and pulverizers require a fair amount as well. Your windmill should be big enough to power either one though, assuming there's a decent wind. I'm guessing what's likely happened is that you're trying to use your windmill to power both at once, and a single basic windmill doesn't produce enough power for that. I'd recommend either implementing toggle switches so you're only ever running the machine you need at the time, or building separate windmills to power each machine.

I just ended up removing the large gear i had the axles connected to, I think having that would sort of kill the energy my windmill had? I'll most likely end up building multiple windmills -- only way to learn about it is by trial and error, LOL

Thank you!!!

[LadyWYT]

4 minutes ago, VibeCenter said:

I just ended up removing the large gear i had the axles connected to

How did you have the axles connected? To get the most power, the correct method, I believe, is to use an angled gear to connect the windmill shaft to the edge of the large gear. Connecting the windmill shaft to the center of the large gear will make it spin fast, but won't produce a lot of power in the process.

[VibeCenter]

3 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

How did you have the axles connected? To get the most power, the correct method, I believe, is to use an angled gear to connect the windmill shaft to the edge of the large gear. Connecting the windmill shaft to the center of the large gear will make it spin fast, but won't produce a lot of power in the process.

i originally had the large gear at the bottom where the two axles are, but i just moved it to the top. I was trying to get a setup where I can have multiple things going, but I think for my own sanity i'll make it just two axles together, and put the pulverizer someplace else

[Slam]

Large gears should be place on top but also on bottom, as @LadyWYT explained

2 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

To get the most power, the correct method, I believe, is to use an angled gear to connect the windmill shaft to the edge of the large gear. Connecting the windmill shaft to the center of the large gear will make it spin fast, but won't produce a lot of power in the process.

By added power to the edge of the large gear, its power is increase by 10 times if I remembering correctly, but 10 times slower. This is important as everything cost power, including the axles that “move” the power. So for exslample 1 axle cost 1 power, by adding power to the edge of the gear and moving though the middle, each axle effectively only cost 0.1 power. You would then connect the power to another large gear to the middle, and transfer it to the edge would return it to its 1x power 1x speed.

 

I’ma be honest though, this is nerd stuff, I have 60% powered windmill with no large gear and it powers my helve hammer fine most of the time. Though I can see it’s uses for example you could use the gear to transfer power to the middle and other edge and run, for example, two quarns, the slower one where you just dump stuff you don’t need grinded rn, but in the future, and a general purpose one where you might not want to grind down your entire batch, like grain, or iron.