GT New Horizons · Ludicrous Voltage (LuV)
Flotation Cell Regulator
The Flotation Cell Regulator (FCR) is an LuV tier multiblock for producing metal froths from milled ore, pine oil, and ethyl xanthate dust. The metal froths are then passed to a vacuum furnace or Utupu-Tanuri for their rare metal composites. The FCR can only ever process one type of material since the machine permanently locks itself to the first recipe it runs, but it scales well with its perfect overclocks.
Construction
The FCR has no tiered components. Buses/hatches may replace any inconel reinforced casing on the bottom layer of the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. The water is spawned for free once the structure is formed and therefore does NOT need to be placed manually. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure.
Structure
- Controller: Front center, 2nd layer
- 90-120 Inconel Reinforced Casing
- 31 Flotation Cell Casing
- 20 Staballoy Frame Box
- 8 Inconel-690 Frame Box
- 1+ Energy Hatch: Any bottom casing
- 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any bottom casing
- 1+ Input Bus: Any bottom casing
- 1+ Input Hatch: Any bottom casing
- 1+ Output Hatch: Any bottom casing
Wallsharing
FCRs 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 FCR is exclusively used to produce metal froths from milled ore, pine oil, and ethyl xanthate dust. The metal froths are then passed to a vacuum furnace or Utupu-Tanuri for their rare metal composites. Pine oil and ethyl xanthate dust are both made in the ExxonMobil Chemical Plant. Their recipes do not conflict so they can be made in the same one. The following table lists the different types of metal froths and their final products. Sphalerite froth is highly valuable for indium dust, monazite froth is highly valuable for lanthanum/lutetium dust, and netherrack froth is mandatory in the Netherite Line.
| Metal Froth | Final Products (Per 4,000L of Metal Froth) |
| Pyrope | 110 Magnesium Dust, 70 Manganese Dust, 60 Borax Dust, 20 Rhenium Dust |
| Chalcopyrite | 180 Copper Dust, 120 Iron Dust, 50 Cadmium Dust, 10 Indium Dust |
| Nickel | 150 Nickel Dust, 120 Cobalt Dust, 32 Rhodium Dust, 16 Ruthenium Dust |
| Redstone | 300 Redstone Dust, 60 Chrome Dust, 45 Firestone Dust, 16 Dysprosium Dust |
| Sphalerite | 180 Zinc Dust, 120 Iron Dust, 64 Indium Dust, 15 Germanium Dust |
| Platinum | 128 Platinum Metallic Powder, 60 Rhodium Dust, 40 Selenium Dust, 10 Tellurium Dust |
| Pentlandite | 150 Iron Dust, 100 Nickel Dust, 20 Promethium Dust, 10 Hafnium Dust |
| Spessartine | 150 Manganese Dust, 90 Aluminium Dust, 30 Osmium Dust, 20 Strontium Dust |
| Grossular | 180 Calcium Dust,110 Aluminium Dust, 60 Tungsten Dust, 15 Thallium Dust |
| Almandine | 150 Aluminium Dust, 75 Magnesium Dust, 25 Yttrium Dust, 15 Ytterbium Dust |
| Monazite | 64 Erbium Dust, 32 Lanthanum Dust, 16 Lutetium Dust, 8 Europium Dust |
| Netherrack | 256 Sulfur Dust, 55 Antimony Dust, 40 Certus Quartz Dust, 40 Nether Quartz Dust, 32 Ardite Dust, 32 Cobalt Dust |
The FCR can only ever process one type of material since the machine permanently locks itself to the first recipe it runs. Not even breaking the controller resets it. This behavior is similar to the Circuit Assembly Line except it does not require any imprints.
Trivia
- Netherrack froth is the only metal froth that does not require potassium ethyl xanthate dust.