Large Power Transformer Not Providing Power

[justameep]

Occasionally in my playthrough ive been hitting this situation where my large power transformer doesnt appear to hold any charge, and doesnt supply power to downstream buildings, Usually I just delete the power transformer and rebuild it, or delete power lines and rebuild them. However, ive hit a situation where this doesnt appear to be working.

I attached a screenshot showing a snippet of my power grid where a heavy-watt wire with 6.92 kW runs through a large transformer, which shows 0/4kj of power available. You can see in the screenshot that a regular transformer is working correctly.

Is there a way to work around this? 

[babba]

Normally it means that not enough power is on the line, so the power transformer can not provide power...Or not enough power consumers are on the line, so there is no need for the transformer to let power through. Its how the game and the power system works, I remember a few years ago thinking the same.

If you like provide your save game, maybe someone will have a look at it then Looking at the screenshots it seems fine, one needs the save to fully check it out.

[Neotuck]

one thing I like to do is put a smart battery on the low end that disables the transformer when it's full

This helps in heat management so the transformer isn't on all the time

[gabberworld]

6 hours ago, Neotuck said:

one thing I like to do is put a smart battery on the low end that disables the transformer when it's full

nice to hear that someone else use same method, i use this exactly for same purpose.

[Neotuck]

1 minute ago, gabberworld said:

nice to hear that someone else use same method, i use this exactly for same purpose.

When the automation update was first added to the game, transformers didn't have an automation input port, so we used power shutoff switches

ONI players had to be very creative with what little we had to work with

[gabberworld]

39 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

When the automation update was first added to the game, transformers didn't have an automation input port, so we used power shutoff switches

ONI players had to be very creative with what little we had to work with

im using this what you have in image even for my current game. if power a somereason  run out power then start use power b

i also used this method  full the transformers one by one. if one full then leftover power add to other smartbatteris

[TheMule]

9 hours ago, Neotuck said:

one thing I like to do is put a smart battery on the low end that disables the transformer when it's full

that works if your total load is below the specs of the wire you're using...