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With laser turrets the 'max energy consumption' that is displayed in game is actually 'average consumption over time while firing'
this for obvious reasons is very misleading and incorrect as the 'maximum' the game tells you is around a fifth what the actual maximum drain of the turret is from examining the power charts one turret causes 15.4 MW spikes meanwhile the game says 3.26 MW max. and can make a great deal of hassle on smaller ships whom use laser turrets and don't pack an energy grid that won't get messed up by those 15 mw spikes. Over time the drain while firing is around 3.26 MW meaning this is the 'average' of the turrets energy usage.

Either making the turrets energy consumption more continuous when active or adjusting the tooltip accordingly would help fix the issues brought up by the misleading and incorrect tooltip.

spikes could be miss leading, a laser turret max consumation is indeed what it's show you can calculate this yourself energy of shoot * shot by second + drain power. The spikes just show that turret ask for energy to fill its internal buffer energy, but what you need to understand is that there is a difference between the max energy a turret can consume and what is the max input of energy a turret can ask. According to your data I guess a turret max input is 15.4 MW :p

PS: but according to the game, it's 9.6 MW, https://github.com/wube/factorio-data/b ... s.lua#L614 you must have other entity in your electric network who ask for power.

I had only a laser turret and electrical energy interface. so no. it's not 9.6 in practice

probably increased based on quality since you don't have a laser turret but a rare laser turret