Smart Battery Sequential Charging & Discharging

[goatt]

I just had this idea, I don't think it's very useful. But it's satisfying to watch it happening.

Charging x12 play speed

Discharging x12 play speed

 

I like to keep it simple. So here is a bit more details

Wires are just straight wires

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Automation wires are also straight.

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Only extra gadget is power shutoff, all 10 smart batteries are set at 0-95%

 

[Stoned]

Nice. It might be very helpful with the 20 kw limit of heavy watt wire. I am running 3 circuits know, but keep on hitting the 20 kw overload limit sometimes (transport tubes for 70+ dupes eat a lot of power).

If I am right, your design can only consume a fixed maximum amount of energy? The limit of the first power transformer? This would allow to avoid overloading and use certain non vital parts of the network only  if the corresponding batteries are charged.

Am I on the right track?

[Epishade]

Here you go!

It's been a while since I played, but I still browse these forums and thought you might be interested in my design.

I think it's a bit better as it doesn't use transformers (which produce heat), and it also disconnects the batteries from the main grid when they're charged, so they don't also don't produce heat.

I'll admit yours is a lot simpler and easier to build than mine though lol.  I didn't know this could be done without advanced automation gates.

Why is the first battery in your sequence getting charged slightly when the others are discharging?

Edit: It's been a while since I played so I don't remember.  Is that normal behavior?  I would have assumed batteries can't charge other batteries even through a transformer, and the charge would have flowed through the first battery into the tepidizers below directly.

[goatt]

6 hours ago, Stoned said:

If I am right, your design can only consume a fixed maximum amount of energy?

I’m not sure if I have the answer for sure. But when I change these wire to cheapest wires of max 1kw, wires before first transformer started to get damaged because total consumer is 1960 W even tho the actual output is only 1000w, which is weird, as it shouldn’t cause damage, like your said, max is limited, and it was limited, but still caused damage. You can see from my wording, I’m confused.

 

4 hours ago, Epishade said:

Why is the first battery in your sequence getting charged slightly when the others are discharging?

After I posted this post, I thought I might not be the first person who had this idea, so I encountered your post, I have to admire yours, cuz I wouldn’t be able to come up with working automation solution, and still looking at it makes me dizzy lol. To answer your question, first battery belongs to charging station, it plays as buffer. Sometimes generators generates power faster than the rate of power transferred between transformers, even tho not visible, power would be wasted.