Energy usage of custom lamps

[immibis]

Is there a way to change the amount of power used by a lamp type?
The small lamps have:

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energy_usage_per_tick = 0.1

but changing this doesn't do anything.

I also tried adding:

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energy_usage = "250W",

just in case that was it (it's not).

[slpwnd]

The energy_usage_per_tick is the correct field. I tested it and works as expected (at least in 0.9). The only trick is that during the day the lamps take just some standby energy (1/30 of regular consumption).

[immibis]

Okay, I'm just stupid.

Somehow I thought small lamps use 60W, and adding

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energy_usage_per_tick = 1.0,

makes it 60W (1 J/t * 60 t/s), so I thought it didn't do anything.

[kovarex]

Note, that for 0.9, the energy definition will be standartised.
So instead of 0.1 (energy per tick), it has to be "6W"