217565 Power Bug - Can NOT recharge a battery if... ug long title

Pretty sure this is by design, not a bug. The transformers function as step-down transformers, so all of your generators should be on the heavy side and all of your consumers (machines, lights, etc) should be on the low side. This way you can put batteries on a low watt circuit to act as a buffer for certain machines even if you run out of power/fuel on the heavy watt side.

It also wouldn't make any sense because the whole point of using these transformers is to keep your low watt circuits from overdrawing power (which they would very quickly do if they had to charge batteries and power 20kw of machines on the rest of the overall circuit).

well,,,,, UG

I wanted to connect my hamster wheel via some low watt wire so that I could charge up in an area that isn't insanely ugly!

and thanks for the bit about batteries behind a transformer only using charge for that circuit. that makes for some interesting alterations.

 

 

12 hours ago, Amauros said:

The transformers function as step-down transformers, so all of your generators should be on the heavy side and all of your consumers (machines, lights, etc) should be on the low side.

This is somewhat wrong, the transformer -additionally to separating two wire networks- acts as a combination of a diode and a (small) battery, it'll move what comes in on the left connector and outputs to the right one.

It dosn't matter what kind of wires are connected, it'll work with any combination as long as there is energy to move from left to right.

You're right and I meant to mention the fact it works like a diode. I referred to it as a transformer though since it seems silly to me to use heavy watt cables on the low watt side even though it would work. I suppose it might make sense if you're connecting two heavy watt circuits together, but I've always assumed that the transformer would break if you put more than 1kw on the low side.