Change transformer description to explain what it does

[rayfoss]

I wasted so much ore on fixing and testing what was happening. Transformers protect the transmission circuit from overload, not the distribution one. 

Based on the description there is no way to damage the distribution circuit as the voltage would drop and things would stop working.

But as it stands I still get peaks of 4kw and burnt out wires from power flowing from charged batteries to empty ones.

 

I still don't know how to stop wasting copper. I want things to stop working if there is no power, like a voltage drop. It seems there is only one way to use this "electricity", which is to use heavy watt wire and a massive battery farm.

[vovik]

Yup, that is as you described.

[blash365]

I am currently running a power grid with a heavy watt wire connecting all of my generators and a small battery farm.

The HW-Wire then connects several transformers, which each open up a separate 1 kW (normal wire) grid. This seems to be running quite stable for me.

You can even position some of the batteries inside of the 1kW grids. Those batteries will only distribute their energy to the 1kW grid, thus ensuring the subsystem of having an independent power storage depending on their importance (e.g. the oxygen generation might need a dedicated battery, to prevent it from being left powerless, in case your production machines suck your batteries dry).

It can be quite a hassle to figure out a good layout for all the different powerlines, but it runs smoothly, once it is set-up.

 

 

Furthermore i have read somewhere that charging batteries is essentially free (which coincides with my experience) in regards of circuit overloading. However as soon as at least one consumer is connected, the sum of all consumed energy will affect the entire circuit.

 

[trukogre]

23 hours ago, rayfoss said:

I wasted so much ore on fixing and testing what was happening. Transformers protect the transmission circuit from overload, not the distribution one. 

Based on the description there is no way to damage the distribution circuit as the voltage would drop and things would stop working.

But as it stands I still get peaks of 4kw and burnt out wires from power flowing from charged batteries to empty ones.

 

I still don't know how to stop wasting copper. I want things to stop working if there is no power, like a voltage drop. It seems there is only one way to use this "electricity", which is to use heavy watt wire and a massive battery farm.

What you describe is the opposite of what I would expect, do you have a picture of the circuit?

[Kabrute]

dont repair rebuild, deconstruct get all resources back, rebuild.  Also transformer doesn't limit energy at 1kw per second, it limits it to 4kw per second because it moves 1kw, 4x per second.  So no one machine can pull more than 1kw through a transformer without a battery.  If you put 900w on 5 differen't lines, each line on a transformer, all 5 transformers tied to 1 power supply that supply would see 4kw but each use area would only see its own use.