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Essentially, when power poles are placed from a blueprint by bots, the power poles will automatically connect together even if the blueprint specifies that they are not. This is most clearly demonstrable if a power switch is connected between two poles that would normally be in the range of each other, but have had the connections disconnected and manually reconnected with copper cable. When blueprinting this, the additional copper connections to the power switch will be placed as desired, but the two poles that were previously disconnected will be reconnected.

tl;dr: Manually disconnect power pole connections. Blueprint them. Place blueprint. When placed by bots, poles will connect regardless if they were made disconnected in the blueprint.

Thanks for the report. That's working as intended.

Oh, I see. Thanks.

For anyone who's found this from searching, this can be mitigated by first placing down all of the power poles, disconnecting their wires, and then placing down your blueprint over top of it. The copper connections in the blueprint will be placed, without the power poles being reconnected to each other.