I Improved My Way of Using Transformer

[goatt]

I always feel alien about transformers in game. And I didn't find much useful info on the Internet to help me understand it. So after many improvements thru out my gaming, this is the one I came up with today, and I finally feel good about it.

Spoiler

Nothing fancy basic stuff.

(As you might be able to tell, the power center is on the right side connected by that big thick long wire, and power user / branch is transformer's left side.)

1. Less heat. Transformers produce more heat than smart battery. But transformer is always disabled except for battery charging time.
2. More Buffer. Each Branch's battery holds some power so that nothing will get affected for a period of time even when power center is down or under re-construction. This also creates good amount of buffer time if you use manual generator at power center like I do. (Of course you can add more batteries to a branch if buffer time is useful at certain point). Transformer only holds 4kJ of power.
3. Downsides? Transformers don't have power runoff, but batteries do.

[ClarkOps]

Why not put the automation signal directly to the transformer ?

[Fischer_L]

3 minutes ago, ClarkOps said:

Why not put the automation signal directly to the transformer ?

If you directly turn off transformer they lose already accumulated charge, so it's a little bit energy wastefull. 

[Neotuck]

I made a post about this months ago before automation was added to the transformer, I had no idea my old build works better than the current one

[SakuraKoi]

Downside? Less heat!

(Seriously, only few things need to be cool but not enough are hot)