Boilers

[DDog]

playing the latest alpha... and I haven't played in a few months... got interested again... anyway.. I've noticed this with a few things.. but specifically I have a pump in the water... 13 boilers and 10 steam engines in series... I put coal in the boilers.. they work for like a few seconds and then quit... even though they have 49 coal sitting in them.... must be something I just don't remember.!

[DaveMcW]

What are you doing with all the electricity?

[ssilk]

Moved from General

[Thomasnotused]

If you don't use the electricity from the steam engines, then the boilers will shut down until it's used.

[Kokelvogel]

Have you done all according to https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... el_powered ?

Also, by left-clicking on a pole you can check your electricity network data. Here's the wiki link https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... infoscreen

When all of this doesn't help, a couple of screenshots (your pump/boiler/steam engine set-up e.g.) might give someone here a clue on what went wrong.