Broken Fuel Lines

[Bakslashjack]

Hey everyone, I have mj kis kas engineer and hyperedit and I run in 32bit.

For some reason I cant get my fuel lines to work properly. I'm not a newb and have re-run every line on several different ships and nothing is behaving the way it has always in the past.

On my large fuel array I have narrowed the problem down to one fuel line that, god knows why, refuses to work. I hooked it up again and again, even resorting to running 2 and 3 lines, to no avail. I'm having other goofy issues with the fuel simply not going where it should as well. Can someone explain this? Thanks.

[Padishar]

It would help if you could give more details about what you think is wrong and explain how you think the fuel should flow. Can you upload the craft file for the last test? Certain aspects of the construction affect how fuel flows and complex fuel line networks can do surprising things.

[Bakslashjack]

So the fuel lines go out from the center tank to 4 tanks outside and up to the center tank on the top and out to the tanks with the rockets.

The tanks on the sides should burn evenly, all 4 at the same time as soon as the center tank is depleted. However, VIS

Now here we have the lines going from the center fuselage tank out and up in the same fashion, only this time the center tank isn't burning and the outside ones are, VIS

This one totally has me baffled. How is that possible that the center tank isn't burning. Something is very wrong.

[sal_vager]

Hi Bakslackjack.

Please don't connect one tank to two or more with fuel lines, it doesn't work, at all.

Connect your tanks in series or two into one, or you end up with issues like on your craft.

[Bakslashjack]

Why? Can you plz explain?

[Padishar]

This thread describes the details of the fuel flow, this post being a description of how this sort of problem occurs.

[Bakslashjack]

"Attached fuel pipes are scanned sequentially"

Damn that sucks. Thanks for the help.