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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.!

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What are you doing with all the electricity?

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If you don't use the electricity from the steam engines, then the boilers will shut down until it's used.
I have no idea what I'm doing.

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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.

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