The condenser is always working, even if there is nothing inside the container, so it's always wasting electricity, and a GOOOOD bunch of electricity.

Also, and this is a personal comment... the redesign is great, but the sounds just don't catch the new look, it feels offset...

This was unfortunately a side-effect of having to solve some bugs introduced by fixing other bugs, i have yet to figure out how to add an empty inventory + empty modules + nothing upgraded circuit based check, until then you'd have to use a power switch im afraid. (or configure a lower power usage)

well it wasn't a redesign, this second skin had been a startup setting for a while now but i decided to permanently upgrade to it, and as for the sounds: it was simply an earraping accumulator before, now its the base sound of the recycler, if you know of a better sound from within the game or another mod with a permissive licence im willing to consider swapping to it.

got it, i'll try finding a more fitting sound!

while also, hearing at it more closely, i realized that the sound is playing practically at the same speed for different qualitys of condensers, so, different speeds.

Alr. I created a little repository for storing the sounds, so you can take a look at them: https://github.com/J0ss077/QualityCondenserResoundProject

For now, I just added raw sounds from the Factorio Data folder, sounds like looping ones, as well as "play one time" like. Probably with a combination of them It could work. However, if u would like a simplier solution, u could try the Fusion reactor entity sound, or the Cryogenic plant as well, both fit almost perfectly.

+1

I'd love to see maybe a mod setting to completely disable the sound effect, it's not bad but it gets annoying quickly if you're running multiple condensers (Telogistics mod did something like that)

Telegostic?

Telegostic?

sorry, Telogistics mod

Condenser sleeps again in 1.3.1.

And as for the sounds, thank you for that effort, the fusion reactor one seemed most appropriate.

The version is compatible with .48 (the current stable) if you make the defines change mentioned here:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/quality-holmium-ore-returns-more-holmium-solution/discussion/683b788a74371ee87a95c7a2

I updated to the most recent version and the condenser doesn't stop. Either when it's empty or when it's full of max quality items. It only seems to pause for a few seconds after upgrading items, but then keeps working constantly.

are you on experimental?

Is that a specific game version? If so, no. Standard steam version.

It might be a mod conflict, since the Condenser seems to have base 2000% quality, even if I leave the setting at 0. If it is a mod conflict, best to ignore this. Too many mods to test.

if you're not on experimental or followed the instructions on the above link then you don't have the update that makes the machine wait again.

2000 base quality sounds absolutely insane, I'd love to have a look tho so if you could drop me a world that's be nice.

Sent via discord.

As mentioned on discord, you had technology effects configured that added a boost.