Power Shutoff Creates Separate Grids

[dupedHook]

Currently any wires that are connected and go through a power shutoff are on the same grid.  If more power than the wire supports is drawn on one side of the cutoff, the entire thing can overload.  If the auto power shutoff created separate grids, we could create power shutoff- smart battery automation systems to replace transformers.

[Flydo]

1 hour ago, dupedHook said:

Currently any wires that are connected and go through a power shutoff are on the same grid.  If more power than the wire supports is drawn on one side of the cutoff, the entire thing can overload.  If the auto power shutoff created separate grids, we could create power shutoff- smart battery automation systems to replace transformers.

You could already do that, i use automation to separate my grid depending of wich generator run on/off. So i can use the extra energy of my gas gen or hydrogen gen for another grid that need it. So i can have a hydrogen generator, a coal generator, a natural gas gen and an hamster wheel on the same grid without overloading my grid

[Argelle]

On 12/05/2018 at 3:45 AM, Flydo said:

You could already do that, i use automation to separate my grid depending of wich generator run on/off. So i can use the extra energy of my gas gen or hydrogen gen for another grid that need it. So i can have a hydrogen generator, a coal generator, a natural gas gen and an hamster wheel on the same grid without overloading my grid

@Flydo It's the very same question I ask myself on my map today!

I never ever used power shup off, but now I want to separate an H² generator from my main grid except when hydrogen is running low.

Legend: left oxygen generator, center H² generator, right main power grid.

I would very much replace switch (right) with power shup off (automated). Do you have any screens of your set up?

So far I'm doing it manually (and set smart battery to 0/0 instead of 20/80), but it would be nice to automate.

My plan is something like this:

[Moonshade]

to automate it

 

this configuration of smart batteries and automation sepperates grids without the need of a transformer. it's also works as an exploit.

the power supliers never come in contact with the consumers since batteries don't count as consumers. which in turn lets the generator side never overload.

the left side is the generator side

the right side is the consumers

i use filter gates to decide which generators to turn on first and the buffer gate is just acting like a diode