Any plans to add a 2K transformer or raise conductive wire to 4k capacity?

[zOldBulldog]

I never worried that we have 1kw, 2kw, 20kw and 50kw wires and only a 1k and 4k transformer.  After all, on the consumption side you never really draw more than 4k, and if you need to feed a 2k wire you can just use 2 transformers from your heavy-watt bus to the conductive wire.  And on the power generation side, most designs work fine if you use heavy-watt wires.

But I just went to setup a manual generator bank using conductive wire and encountered the (well known) problem of batteries releasing power faster than the wire can carry, so even though the manual generators were producing less than 2kw, the wires were overloading before reaching the 4kw transformer that connected the setup to the 20k bus. 

Of course I was able to work around the issue, but the issue should not have existed in the first place and it will certainly stump beginners. 

The obvious fixes to the game design are to either add a 2kw transformer to the set, or to raise conductive wire capacity from 2kw to 4k.  Are either in the plans?

[wronny]

2 hours ago, zOldBulldog said:

But I just went to setup a manual generator bank using conductive wire and encountered the (well known) problem of batteries releasing power faster than the wire can carry, so even though the manual generators were producing less than 2kw, the wires were overloading before reaching the 4kw transformer that connected the setup to the 20k bus. 

It is a really bad habit to have a low wattage wire on the producer side of a transformer (or a set of transformers), if the consumer side will exceed the limit of that type of wire.

On the other hand, the ability to charge a battery(-bank) while a conductive wire is under full load with just a single large transformer is pretty useful.

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The obvious fixes to the game design are to either add a 2kw transformer to the set, or to raise conductive wire capacity from 2kw to 4k.

The obvious fix is on the user end: use a wire that can handle the power draw of the consumer side.

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