Bestpain Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 It would be great if you could transmit the automation signal wirelessly with the help of the transmitter and the receiver. This could be the next level of automation in the technology tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Miner Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 This is a very good idea. It should have sufficient number of channels, perhaps 1-99. It would come in very handy when making alarm systems - with multiple sensors and multiple alarms - light and sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraconicSiege Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 This would be great for turning off power generators located far away or turning off pumps at geysers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goboking Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 After running a very long automation wire from my base to a pump at a distant geyser this evening I'm not fully on board with this idea. Give us transmitters and receivers with a range of frequencies and we're good to go. I would limit the number of frequencies to 9 to keep automation wires from obsolescence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuirem Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 6 hours ago, goboking said: After running a very long automation wire from my base to a pump at a distant geyser this evening I'm not fully on board with this idea. Give us transmitters and receivers with a range of frequencies and we're good to go. I would limit the number of frequencies to 9 to keep automation wires from obsolescence. Just make transmitters and receivers use electricity (120 W perhaps?) should be enough to prevent obsolescence of wires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supraluminal Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Kuirem said: Just make transmitters and receivers use electricity (120 W perhaps?) should be enough to prevent obsolescence of wires. Why is important to keep wires from being obsoleted? Is wiring stuff really an important gameplay element? If players find it fun to run wires, they will still do it. If they don't enjoy it, why force them to? But, assuming it's desirable to balance transmitters against wires, power use would certainly be one way to do it. Another is material requirements for transmitters; if they cost a relatively large amount of metal then people will still use wires for short runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Miner Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 7 hours ago, goboking said: to keep automation wires from obsolescence. I don't think that's necessary. If one would replace every wire with wireless transmission, the circuit would be nearly impossible to debug / maintain / extend. Having the transmitter and the receiver each cost the same as 10 wire segments would be more than sufficient for the balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotintin Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 With the new geysers all over the map, I was thinking of how useful this would be now and remembered this post. Bumping thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLance Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 5 hours ago, Rotintin said: With the new geysers all over the map, I was thinking of how useful this would be now and remembered this post. Bumping thread! Yeah it would be great, What I have actually gotten into the habit of doing recently is having a power generator outside it (Natural Gas Gen if its Natural Gas) with a smart battery hooked up to it, so the pump will run sending the gas to my base when a certain pressure is reached for x amount of time. Once the battery is drained below 10% the Nat gas generator kicks into life powering the battery and repeating this cycle. It works just as well at the moment though so I cannot complain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrustyFish Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Sounds like a great addition, If the cost of these devices was on par with the cost of 10-20 segments of wire I don't think they would make wire obsolete. There are plenty of ways to tweak their cost/benefit. Maybe adding a little plastic to their construction, or power use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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