Mercury Ceiling Light
Light Intensity: 0-60000 Lux
Red: Disable building
Mercury Ceiling Lights convert Mercury and small amounts of Power into very bright, concentrated rays of Light.
They must be built under a ceiling to function.
Usage
While charging, Mercury Ceiling Lights consume 60w of Power and 130g/s of Mercury (which must be delivered to it via Liquid Pipes).
Charge & Light Production
Immediately after turning on, a Mercury Ceiling Light will start to "charge" itself up, linearly increasing its Light production up to a maximum of 60000 lux. It takes a total of 60 seconds for a Mercury Ceiling Light to fully charge up from 0 lux to 60000 lux.
Whenever a Mercury Ceiling Light has insufficient Power or Mercury, or when it is disabled via Automation, it starts to lose its accumulated charge. The rate at which Mercury Ceiling Lights lose their charge is equal to the rate at which they gain charge while turned on. This means that a fully charged Mercury Ceiling Light will take 60 seconds to lose all of its charge, gradually decreasing its light output from 60000 lux to 0 lux.
Light Range
Mercury Ceiling Lights emit a 3 cell-wide × 8 cell-high light downwards from their middle cell. The lux values produced by one fully-charged Mercury Ceiling Light are as follows:
- The four topmost rows of cells: 60000 lux
- The three rows below that: 30000 lux
- The row below that: 20000 lux.
Tips
- Since Mercury Ceiling Lights lose charge as slowly as they gain charge, a Mercury Ceiling Light's light output can be infinitely sustained by limiting its Mercury consumption to only 64g/s (a little under half of its listed Mercury requirement). This also provides the bonus of halving the Mercury Ceiling Light's average Power consumption and Heat output to 30w and 500DTU/s, respectively.
History
- U52-620762: Introduced.
- U52-621068: Increased heat production from 500DTU to 1000DTU. Mercury is now displayed as a "requirement" of the Mercury Ceiling Light instead of an "effect".
