priorities for steam engines, solar panels and accumulators

[BigBlue7575]

yea i know there is "set" priorities for them already solar, steam, then accu. but i would like to be able to set them myself with a simple number setting and just set when all the each come on if i want to have some of my accu come on before my steam engine then the rest are for when the turrets surge the power grid. something like this.


solar, x number of accumulators, then steam engines, then the rest of my accumulators.

[bobucles]

Electrical grid switches were shown in one of the latest dev blogs.

Electrical level sensors are probably in the works.

Both things put together will let you set up a grid however you want.

[ssilk]

Exactly. Priority switches like the above will (more or less surely) not come - this has been discussed a lot. The reason is, that such switching would not work, how factorio works: You would need a circuit net to tell the accumulators etc. that they need to switch their priority now. Otherwise it would be some kind of "magic switch in a gui".

The way to do such switching is long planned and will be made with the switches, the circuit network and so on.

Because of that, I make only a short list of other threads:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ?f=6&t=781 Higher-priority capacitors?
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ?f=6&t=952 Using accumulators for solar power
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=1662 Power supply priority and Research progress fix
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=2087 Accumulator priority based on charge level

Related
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ?f=8&t=976 Turning steam engines on if needed
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=3093 Power switch on buildings
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=7601 More proper steam engines