power switch at night solar / accumulators / steam
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:52 pm
Hello everyone,
I began a few days ago and I started to reach the stage of the game where I sarted making accumulators.
Up until now I had both a steam and a solar power source.
The solar panel production is fully automated so I could go nuts on the solar panel field, but the accumulators are not quite yet.
When I started planting accumulators, I noticed an issue:
The solar panels would provide energy through the day, then the steam would take over at night, and accumulators would remain untouched.
So i began fiddling with the power switches.
My idea was to have solar power during the day, then live an accumulators, and pop up the old steam power once that was used up.
I separated properly my steam power line, my accumulators, and my factory. Then I tried cut my steam power line until the accumulator charge would go down below 10%.
That was awfull: during the night, when accumulator power was going down, the steam engines started rolling and began recharging the accumulators !
I spent some time on it, tried looking on the forum and here is the solution I decided on I am using the accumulator on the left as reference, it is attached to my accumulator field electric system.
A. When that accumulator charge goes down below 10% I want to activate the steam engines, and disconnect the accumulators to prevent them from recharging.
B. There is a single power pole on the top right that serves as a day/night indicator. The accumulator there would go to 0% quickly at night and then recharge during the morning. This is the cue for me to disconnect the steam engines, and plug the accumulators back in to let the solar power recharge them.
The 2 conditions are added by a combinator A + B -> C
Then power relays are set with a mutually exclusive condition: accumulators are in if C > 10 % and steam engines are in if C =< 10 %.
I began a few days ago and I started to reach the stage of the game where I sarted making accumulators.
Up until now I had both a steam and a solar power source.
The solar panel production is fully automated so I could go nuts on the solar panel field, but the accumulators are not quite yet.
When I started planting accumulators, I noticed an issue:
The solar panels would provide energy through the day, then the steam would take over at night, and accumulators would remain untouched.
So i began fiddling with the power switches.
My idea was to have solar power during the day, then live an accumulators, and pop up the old steam power once that was used up.
I separated properly my steam power line, my accumulators, and my factory. Then I tried cut my steam power line until the accumulator charge would go down below 10%.
That was awfull: during the night, when accumulator power was going down, the steam engines started rolling and began recharging the accumulators !
I spent some time on it, tried looking on the forum and here is the solution I decided on I am using the accumulator on the left as reference, it is attached to my accumulator field electric system.
A. When that accumulator charge goes down below 10% I want to activate the steam engines, and disconnect the accumulators to prevent them from recharging.
B. There is a single power pole on the top right that serves as a day/night indicator. The accumulator there would go to 0% quickly at night and then recharge during the morning. This is the cue for me to disconnect the steam engines, and plug the accumulators back in to let the solar power recharge them.
The 2 conditions are added by a combinator A + B -> C
Then power relays are set with a mutually exclusive condition: accumulators are in if C > 10 % and steam engines are in if C =< 10 %.