GT New Horizons · Insane Voltage (IV)
Cryogenic Freezer
The Cryogenic Freezer is an IV tier multiblock for mass cooling hot ingots and fluids. The Cryogenic Freezer is a direct upgrade from the Vacuum Freezer because it runs at 300% speed, only uses 90% of the EU/t normally required, and offers a fixed 16 parallels. The Cryogenic Freezer consumes 10 L/s of gelid cryotheum during operation through a specialized cryotheum cooling hatch. If it ever runs out, the machine crashes immediately and causes a random maintenance issue to occur. The Endothermic Fridge only outperforms the Cryogenic Freezer if it can take full advantage of its 256 parallels (4+ overclocks).
Construction
The Cryogenic Freezer has no tiered components. Buses/hatches may replace any casing anywhere on the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure.
Structure
- Controller: Front center, 2nd layer
- 46-56 Advanced Cryogenic Casing
- 24 Grisium Frame Box
- 1+ Cryotheum Cooling Hatch: Any casing
- 1+ Energy Hatch: Any casing
- 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any casing
- 1 Muffler Hatch: Any casing
- 1+ Input Bus/Hatch: Any casing
- 1+ Output Bus/Hatch: Any casing
Wallsharing
Cryogenic Freezers may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings, frame boxes, and buses/hatches. No recipe uses more than 1A of power so it is possible to share one energy hatch between two machines.
Usage
The Cryogenic Freezer is a direct upgrade from the Vacuum Freezer because it runs at 300% speed, only uses 90% of the EU/t normally required, and offers a fixed 16 parallels.
The Cryogenic Freezer consumes 10 L/s of gelid cryotheum during operation through a specialized cryotheum cooling hatch. If it ever runs out, the machine crashes immediately and causes a random maintenance issue to occur. Cryotheum is primarily sourced from evolved cold blazes on Europa or the cryotheum bee. Blizz dust can also be made from blaze powder if necessary.
Cooling Rate Comparison
The difference between the Cryogenic Freezer and the Endothermic Fridge (EnF) is not entirely obvious. The former has a higher processing speed but the latter has significantly more parallels and perfect overclocks. To help decide between the two, the following table compares the processing speed of hot neutronium ingots for various overclocks. The EnF values are calculated with the maximum 150% speed so its performance could be slightly worse in practice. It also consumes up to 2A of power with a single energy hatch while there are still parallels available so the comparison is a little unfair. The cells highlighted green mean the EnF is faster than the Cryogenic Freezer and the cells highlighted red mean the EnF is slower, after normalizing for power.
| Overclocks | Endothermic Fridge | Cryogenic Freezer | Vacuum Freezer | |||||
| No Coolant | Infinity | Spacetime | Eternity | |||||
| 0 (IV) | 2.88 /m (1.88A) | 2.88 /m (1.88A) | 2.88 /m (1.88A) | 2.88 /m (1.88A) | 2.88 /m (0.84A) | 0.96 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 1 (LuV) | 11.5 /m (1.88A) | 11.5 /m (1.88A) | 11.5 /m (1.88A) | 11.5 /m (1.88A) | 11.5 /m (0.84A) | 1.92 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 2 (ZPM) | 49.0 /m (1.99A) | 49.0 /m (1.99A) | 49.0 /m (1.99A) | 49.0 /m (1.99A) | 46.2 /m (0.84A) | 3.85 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 3 (UV) | 196 /m (1.99A) | 196 /m (1.99A) | 196 /m (1.99A) | 196 /m (1.99A) | 92.3 /m (0.84A) | 7.69 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 4 (UHV) | 369 /m (0.94A) | 369 /m (0.94A) | 369 /m (0.94A) | 369 /m (0.94A) | 185 /m (0.84A) | 15.4 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 5 (UEV) | 738 /m (0.94A) | 1,477 /m (0.94A) | 1,477 /m (0.94A) | 1,477 /m (0.94A) | 371 /m (0.84A) | 30.8 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 6 (UIV) | 1,477 /m (0.94A) | 2,976 /m (0.94A) | 5,953 /m (0.94A) | 5,953 /m (0.94A) | 743 /m (0.84A) | 63.2 /m (0.94A) | ||
| 7 (UMV) | 2,976 /m (0.94A) | 5,953 /m (0.94A) | 11,906 /m (0.94A) | 23,811 /m (0.94A) | 1,483 /m (0.84A) | 133 /m (0.94A) | ||
From this information, it can be concluded that the Cryogenic Freezer is the superior option for 0-3 overclocks and the EnF is the superior option for 4+ overclocks. This behavior is consistent across all recipes.