I think you're getting hung up on the old idea of pipes/tanks having their own properties. In the FFF they showed individual flow rate and capacity bars on each tank or piece of pipe, but under the new system, there's no such concept; all pipes and tanks connected contiguously will share the same &q...

[...]I got Factorio in 2021, and I never got a different simple oil processing than what it is today.[...]I really don't understand why someone is angry about that.[...] If you'd like to learn more, I've got plenty of references and info in the balance proposal thread I made , and it's still open f...

[...] The extra tanks are not superfluous ! they are meant to abuse what was explained in the FFF that the pull rate of machine would depend on the % of fill of the pipe network in which they are connected. Since there are such huge tank buffer, it will make the level of the "segment" in ...

I've made a habit not to use the pulse function on belts and inserters precisely due to that inconsistency , (which apparently won't be fixed ,) so any logic circuitry I use is agnostic to the severity of brownouts. As a result, I care about brownouts in the general sense (due to slowed production, ...

[...]Hopefully long enough until the night is over. Does this mean you're counting on solar power to pull you out of the hole, so to speak? I dunno, I'd much rather put up with some intermittent blackouts in exchange for full power the rest of the time. Combinators, circuits, and timers won't get d...

The brownout alarm I linked above has similar deep brownout detection capability, but, since you brought it up, I must ask: [...] It has 16 independent battery's and it tries to only commit them one by one depending how deep the brownout is. [...] What is the advantage to isolating accumulator banks...

Since transient power spikes (which this autobreaker doesn't address) seem to be a sticking point, I've thrown together a brownout alarm that'll alert you to them, so you'll know when to add more accumulators (or other peaker power). It's blueprinted in such a way that it can share a corner accumula...

A simple device that you can deploy anywhere on a power network to alert you when your accumulators are nearing or at their (discharge rate) limit: balarm.png 0eNrtWEtu2zAQvUpBoJtCMvSxvmi76BW66KIIBEpmbCISqVKUUyPQAXqJHqL7XqYX6BU6pBx/ZEmxkrRJgWwM8zPDmXmPM0PdoDSvSSkokyi+QTTjrELx5xtU0SXDuZqTm5KgGFFJCmQg...

A while ago, I posted my Sunflower junction , but a couple things about it started to bug me, so I tried a redesign, and this popped out: Yarn ball.png 0eNqtXe1uW0cOfZWFfjvBfHOYNykWxcJJhFaA4wSOU2wQ+N1XTla6tswrnXOcf03bHPFySM6QPMP5sXl/82375W53e79592Oz+/D59uvm3b9/bL7u/rq9vnn8d/ffv2w37za7++2nzdXm9vrT45/...

Insomuch as it will not respond to power spikes high enough to overdraw the accumulators, but not long enough to drain them, that is correct; as I wrote in the first post, the condition/assumption is that you have enough accumulators to handle transient spikes like that, and the design presumes that...

[...] But if you ever draw enough power that you draw more than the peak output of your production and accumulators, then I believe that with OP's system, that results in a brownout in the short time before it switches the backup power on. This then effectively makes it so that the backup power pla...

1. If you add more steam tanks, you only postpone overheat. It is not solution, it is delaying the problem. [...] No, adding steam tanks increases the energy buffer of the powerplant, both making it harder to overdraw the plant to the trigger point, and providing more room to sink reactor energy th...

[...] No, all Nuclears which read level of steam (wasteless) are sensitive to steam overspend. [...] Untrue. That sensitivity is dependent on the energy buffer of the plant being tuned to the minimum required for the plant's rating. If you add more steam tanks and/or heat exchangers beyond that min...

Minor edit eliminated the need for 1 arithmetic combinator. First post updated. Edit: steam trigger adjusted to 15k after some additional testing. Turbine distribution needs to be a bit more even now, but tolerance to other weird conditions (power draw spikes, missing heat exchangers, etc.) has impr...

[...] No. I have spend a lot time optimizing Perfect Clover leaf https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=96233 I can surely say, simple add turbines to the power plant can lead to disaster. Overspending steam can cause havoc for controlled power plant. [...] Then you should post your ...

I don't know how you're coming up with those criteria, but they don't make much sense. Your circuit is just a threshold-triggered version of what powerplants already do by default: throttle up and down based on instantaneous demand. If you have cheap peaker power to suppress power spikes with, you m...

You can't leave out the "So long as"; that quote you pulled isn't a promise, it's a condition: If (primary power rating + accumulator power rating > highest power usage spike) then (no brownouts). This autobreaker isn't designed to do anything about power spikes that exceed the total power...

This is designed to govern the electrical connections between three segregated parts of a power grid: primary power & accumulators (lower right), emergency backup power (upper right), and power consumers (upper left). So long as you have enough accumulators to absorb any spikes in power usage, t...

Redesigned the belt spaghetti to improve prioritization of lanes on the Kovarex side; doing so resulted in an improvement in inserter behavior, and made the 3-belt gating circuit I was using obsolete. I've also switched to feeding 235 output onto a single lane, since the 235 feedback loop will satur...

On the off-chance anyone's still interested, I still stand by my opinions above, and have updated the mod to accommodate Factorio's 1.1 version series.