Power bank

[Arcus2611]

On 04/01/2019 at 4:09 PM, KittenIsAGeek said:

 

1. Check to make certain your total maximum draw from consumers is less than the power limit of the wires.  For example, if you're using conductive wire, never put more than 2kw of consumers on a circuit.

 

To be fair, it depends on what you're talking about. If you put two aquatuners on a conductive wire circuit, it's guaranteed to explode. On the other hand, you can put 20 airlocks on the same stretch of regular wire without too much risk of overloading because those doors will only draw power for a split second and won't be all drawing on the circuit simultaneously.

 

In theory the circuit I have powering my rocket silo gantries is well over the maximum load of conductive wire. In practice I've never had a blowout because gantries don't draw on the circuit long enough to overload it.

 

Even for stuff like pumps you can go a bit over capacity as long as you don't expect them to be running constantly.

[ONIfreak]

8 hours ago, Arcus2611 said:

If you put two aquatuners on a conductive wire circuit, it's guaranteed to explode

Not necesserly. They will explode only when both will be working at the same time ( of course having two aquantars not working at the same time it is quite unique setup). They only consume power when cooling liquid. If pipe is blocked or they are disabled by automation and are idle - they will not overload. You can put 5k on 1k wire if you automate all  consumers to "take shifts" ( in example every 2 seconds). Just make sure working consumer not exceed 1k. 

[ChickenMadness]

On 04/01/2019 at 4:20 PM, ToiDiaeRaRIsuOy said:

Well, that does make sense as the wires are much easier to replace. I'm usually not confronted by that problem due the already chaotic nature of my power grid, plus I tend to really rush for conductive wires.

Also alot of us are kind of OCD and it hurts my eyes when my base looks messy lol. Makes me want to ragequit and rebuild everything.

Everything I design has to be square shaped and stackable, and fits into my base like a puzzle piece.

11 hours ago, Arcus2611 said:

 

To be fair, it depends on what you're talking about. If you put two aquatuners on a conductive wire circuit, it's guaranteed to explode.

You can automate them to come on one at a time fairly easily though.

[ONIfreak]

6 minutes ago, ChickenMadness said:

Also alot of us are kind of OCD and it hurts my eyes when my base looks messy lol. Makes me want to ragequit and rebuild everything.

Everything I design has to be square shaped and stackable, and fits into my base like a puzzle piece.

Tell me about it. I deconstruct, re-vacuum, and rebuild my whole oxygen room cause there was 1 missing airflow tile -not even important one (they were 5 around it anyway) - just because it looked not even to other tiles. 1.5h of my life because of one tile XD

[Gurgel]

5 hours ago, ONIfreak said:

Tell me about it. I deconstruct, re-vacuum, and rebuild my whole oxygen room cause there was 1 missing airflow tile -not even important one (they were 5 around it anyway) - just because it looked not even to other tiles. 1.5h of my life because of one tile XD

It is entertainment (with some element of education)  so time spent is not time lost

[ToiDiaeRaRIsuOy]

I should you send you guys my save file and see your faces in agony :D.

[KittenIsAGeek]

On 1/6/2019 at 3:16 AM, Arcus2611 said:

To be fair, it depends on what you're talking about. If you put two aquatuners on a conductive wire circuit, it's guaranteed to explode. On the other hand, you can put 20 airlocks on the same stretch of regular wire without too much risk of overloading because those doors will only draw power for a split second and won't be all drawing on the circuit simultaneously.

The question was how to guarantee that you avoid burnout.  The only way to guarantee it is to never have more consumers than your wire can hold power.  Can you put more on a circuit? Sure.  You can have 100 doors on a wire no problem.  Unless you try to open all 100 at once.  

Your information is completely accurate and its how I usually play -- but the question was how to ensure that it is NEVER a problem.

[habuky]

On 6.1.2019 at 6:45 AM, Nitroturtle said:

Here you go:

 

Planet5.sav

Very much appreciated! It gave a me a lot of food for though! Thanks.