Fixing Wires and/or Transformers

[KungPaoTigger]

Suggestion:
Option 1: Conductive Wire can carry 4000 watts without overloading.
Option 2: Large Power Transformers are downgraded to only output (and consume) 2000 watts (and generate half as much heat).
 

Please choose one?

[pnambic]

Transformers have uses other than limiting power flow, and it's very useful to have a larger transformer available for those uses. (Example: Charging batteries only from an intermittent source like solar panels or plug slugs, but discharging into the overall grid). If anything, I'd like the large transformer to handle more power.

If you prefer brownouts to occasional overload messages, you can step down from your main spine to conductive wire using two small transformers in parallel. Making conductive wire capable of carrying higher loads while still gonig through walls would probably simplify things a bit too much.

[Firecart]

10 hours ago, pnambic said:

Transformers have uses other than limiting power flow, and it's very useful to have a larger transformer available for those uses. (Example: Charging batteries only from an intermittent source like solar panels or plug slugs, but discharging into the overall grid). If anything, I'd like the large transformer to handle more power.

If you prefer brownouts to occasional overload messages, you can step down from your main spine to conductive wire using two small transformers in parallel. Making conductive wire capable of carrying higher loads while still gonig through walls would probably simplify things a bit too much.

I mean, a slight increase to 2500 or 3000 watts might be fine, but I do agree that 4000 is a little overkill with the ability to go through walls, plus regular conductive wire doesn't penalize decor.