I have tried putting air into those tanks but oxygen pipes don't connect and the normal air tanks don't fill it up.
Because the suitable faces for pipes are the bottom and above. But my problem is different: I can fill up the gas tanks, but they can't send the air to the sealers and distributors.
EDIT:
off-topic: I noticed that all my copper wiring was replaced with coal generators in the last dev build.
EDIT 2:
After tinkering around for a hour or two I figured out how these tanks work:
- Their input faces are the bottom and above: connect here the pipes that come from the collectors.
- They output face is the one that has a gray square: connect here the pipes that go to the distributors. Use the wrench to rotate the output face.
EDIT 3:
My experience with Makinism Air Tanks was kind of "no way".
- A gas tank of 96,000 barely lasts for 2 or 3 minutes. A storage tank of 1,600 lasts for 5 seconds.
- I can't use gas tanks to transport air from the Overworld to a base. I can fill them, but if I break all air stored is lost.
- I could use storage tanks to transport air, but each gas tank requires dozens of them (60 precisely). It takes up a lot of inventory space and time to fill them all. To fill a gas tank in the space I still have to grow trees, and spend material to craft and maintain a room only for gas tanks (at least 10 to worth the effort).
- It adds a lot of micromanagement. I prefer shear trees and transport leaves in my rocket.