Air Control

The air control circuit board turns a Console into a simple pressure controller for a room. According to the game data it works with Gas Sensor and Active Vent units from the console's data network. Both must therefore hang on the same cable network as the console.

The preset limits are about 100.3 kPa at the bottom and 102.3 kPa at the top – a band of roughly 2 kPa around normal air pressure. For the operating mode the game knows the values None (0), Offline (1), Pressure (2) and Draught (4). In IC10 they are called AirControl.None, AirControl.Offline, AirControl.Pressure and AirControl.Draught.

The board is made in the Electronics Printer at the first tier. According to the game data it is flammable (flash point 393 K).

For a single room at normal pressure it is the quickest way to a control without a program. If you want other limits, several rooms or a master switch, a chip is more flexible. A complete program that keeps the pressure between 95 and 101 kPa is in IC10: control a device by name; the academy explains in hysteresis why two limits beat one.