Anyone found a good way to have both nuclear and steam power sharing the load and giving priority to nuclear?
Best way to share those I found out now is having lots of accumulators that are in two separate power networks and use them as a buffer.
Nuclear and steam power priority
Re: Nuclear and steam power priority
I just had one accumulator, which was circuit-networked to the coal intake on the individual steam boilers.
I also put a loudspeaker on it so I got global low-power alerts the second its charge dipped below 100.
If you control the individual boiler's coal, you can fire them up before the accumulators discharge, no problem at all, and they shut back down when you have enough.
Otherwise, steam always took about 10MW or so, even when I have 200MW of nuclear power. I did the above and I think they kicked in four/five times for laser turrets, and that was enough to make me go put in more nuclear each time.
I also put a loudspeaker on it so I got global low-power alerts the second its charge dipped below 100.
If you control the individual boiler's coal, you can fire them up before the accumulators discharge, no problem at all, and they shut back down when you have enough.
Otherwise, steam always took about 10MW or so, even when I have 200MW of nuclear power. I did the above and I think they kicked in four/five times for laser turrets, and that was enough to make me go put in more nuclear each time.