smart battery exploit

From what I can remember power production has never been able to damage wires. Transformers also work in a weird way. One transformer produces power in 5 ticks of 1kw per second. This means if you have an item connected to it that uses over 1kw per second and dont have battery on the line the item wont work well. However if a line is consuming 2kw power and has a battery the battery can be loaded with about 3kw when you get power from the mainline again. This is why its recommended to always have a battery on the small side of transformers. 

yeah.  consumers count, producers don't.  afaik its working as intended and correctly

 

well if the intention was that you don't need to use heavy watt wire why even make heavy watt wire a possibility in the game?

a similar exploit used to be possible when transformers didnt count as consumers. they changed that too so, batteries should count as consumers when you charge them.

Edited July 7, 2018 by Moonshade
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10 hours ago, DaveSatx said:

yeah.  consumers count, producers don't.  afaik its working as intended and correctly

 

if ii'm not mistaken it was not intended to work this way

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thats an interesting layout. l like the way you use power cut-offs.