Редактирование: Atmospheric Technician (раздел)

===[[File:AirAlarm.gif]] Repressurization and Filtering===
After the [[Engineer]]s have taken care of a hull breach (read: if), or after [[Toxins]] floods the place with plasma, it'll be your job to refill the area and make it breathable.

This can be done by using the Atmosphere Alarms mounted in most areas, along with the vents and scrubbers in the area. The primary utility of the Atmosphere Alarm is to send alerts when the air around the alarm falls into less than favorable conditions based on gas temperature, pressure, and composition. Atmosphere Alarms also control the vents and the scrubbers in the room they're in, and these can be individually turned on/off and adjusted from the Atmosphere Alarms.

To unlock the alarm, either swipe your ID card on them, or simply ALT click while the card is in your ID slot to quickly unlock it. Remember to lock them when you're done with them to prevent unwanted tampering!

The alarms can be set to a number of modes:

*'''Filtering''' - The default setting. Vents will put air in at 101kpa and scrubbers will remove CO2. Note that most scrubbers won't filter out plasma or other gases unless you set them to, so do that!
*'''Contaminated''' - The second setting and the most useful one. Sets all the scrubbers to remove everything except for O2 and N2, and sets their range to "expanded".
*'''Draught''' - This filters out air slowly, creating a draught. Useful if you need to drain a small amount of air due to overpressurization.
*'''Replace Air''' - Drains all the air, then replaces it. Preferably, only use it if there's something toxic in the air.
*'''Refill''' - Triples the output on the vents to 303kpa. Useful only if you've increased the pressure in the air distribution pipe from atmos.
*'''Panic Siphon''' - This drains all the air quickly. Most of the time used to remove all plasma very quickly, or by a malfunctioning AI.

Normally the vents will fill the room slowly by default, though using some filled Portable Air Pumps, or Air Canisters you can refill the area much more quickly.

<u>'''A tip in refilling:'''</u> Each vent has a pressure check value on it, and is by default set to pressure check '''externally''' - this means that the vent attempts to bring the tile it's on to the listed pressure. A rapid manner of refilling an area is to remove the external pressure check and switch it over to the internal check - this attempts to regulate the pressure in the pipes of and running to the vent below, which is directly fed by the distribution loop pump in the north end of Atmosia. Setting the "pressure bound" variable to zero with internal pressure checks attempts to void all air in the pipes, effectively reducing their pressure to zero and, in the process, flooding air at an alarming rate into the area. Given the impractically slow rate at which the air alarms normally fill the area, this can be a very expeditious way to work. Pressure is dangerous, so don't simply leave the vent alone for extended periods of time, as you can, eventually, turn smaller areas into death-traps if there is enough pressure in the distribution loop.