Friction Heater

The Friction Heater is a RotaryCraft machine that consumes Shaft Power to increase the temperature of an adjacent machine. It can also be used to power a standard Furnace without consuming standard fuel.

Usage
When a Friction Heater is placed facing a RotaryCraft machine and given power, it will quickly and significantly increase the temperature of that machine, if the machine has a temperature value relevant to its function. This is most commonly important to the Blast Furnace.

The other primary use of the Friction Heater is to heat and power a conventional Furnace. A Furnace heated by a Friction Heater will not consume fuel and will operate significantly faster than it would normally. Additionally, a Furnace heated by a Friction Heater is the only way to smelt Tungsten Flakes into Sintered Tungsten Ingots.

The Friction Heater can be operated with a simple Steam Engine and no Gearbox, however it can be operated significantly more effectively by using Gearboxes to make its input torque and speed equal. (A Steam Engine alone will heat a Furnace to 575C; if that Steam Engine's power is fed through a Gearbox to make its speed and torque equal, the Furnace will be heated to 625C. For a Blast Furnace, 570C will not smelt HSLA Steel Ingots, but 625C will.)