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Basically, I can't do this on burner machines, the energy is present on one tick, but on the next tick, it revert to the previous value.

Yes, because the burner has some small capacity.

Have you tried with a lower value? I think that's what the dev means.

SHiRKiT wrote:Have you tried with a lower value? I think that's what the dev means.

But for now all I have tested is drain in a single tick ... so the machine can get "infinite energy" for example else than putting energy each tick. I am wrong ?

y.petremann wrote:

SHiRKiT wrote:Have you tried with a lower value? I think that's what the dev means.

But for now all I have tested is drain in a single tick ... so the machine can get "infinite energy" for example else than putting energy each tick. I am wrong ?

You can enhance the capacity of the burner, and then set the energy to very high value: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ergySource

kovarex wrote:

y.petremann wrote:

SHiRKiT wrote:Have you tried with a lower value? I think that's what the dev means.

But for now all I have tested is drain in a single tick ... so the machine can get "infinite energy" for example else than putting energy each tick. I am wrong ?

You can enhance the capacity of the burner, and then set the energy to very high value: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ergySource

Unless something's changed recently last time I looked at this particular issue burner energy sources dynamically set the buffer size to that of the item they where burning. When they weren't burning anything it was enough energy to run for 1 tick.

Rseding91 wrote:

kovarex wrote:

y.petremann wrote:

SHiRKiT wrote:Have you tried with a lower value? I think that's what the dev means.

But for now all I have tested is drain in a single tick ... so the machine can get "infinite energy" for example else than putting energy each tick. I am wrong ?

You can enhance the capacity of the burner, and then set the energy to very high value: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ergySource

Unless something's changed recently last time I looked at this particular issue burner energy sources dynamically set the buffer size to that of the item they where burning. When they weren't burning anything it was enough energy to run for 1 tick.

For some reason, I thought that this logic is only applied when the limit is not specified in the prototype, but I looked it up in the code now, and it isn't true. But it would make sense to do it that way.