Please find attached a demo mod and a demo save (2.1).
What
I defined a boiler with energy_source type = "fluid". Even when working as expected at full capacity, the LED of the boiler entity shows the "Low Power" status, leading the player in thinking there's a problem when there's none.
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energy_source =
{
type = "fluid",
effectivity = 1,
burns_fluid = false,
scale_fluid_usage = true,
destroy_non_fuel_fluid = false,
fluid_usage_per_tick = 100.0 / second,
maximum_temperature = 1500,
spent_fluid = { name = "molten-lead", amount = 1, temperature = 500},
fluid_box = {
pipe_picture = assemblerpictures.assembler2pipepictures,
pipe_covers = pipecoverspictures(),
volume = 400,
filter = "molten-lead",
pipe_connections = {
{ flow_direction = "input", direction = defines.direction.north, position = {0, -1}, connection_category = {"default"}},
},
secondary_draw_orders = { north = -1 },
--volume_reservation_fraction = 200,
},
output_fluid_box = {
pipe_picture = assemblerpictures.assembler2pipepictures,
pipe_covers = pipecoverspictures(),
volume = 100,
filter = "molten-lead",
pipe_connections = {
{ flow_direction = "output", direction = defines.direction.west, position = {-1, 0}, connection_category = {"default"}},
},
secondary_draw_orders = { north = -1 },
}
},
energy_consumption = "10MW",Following Bilka's advice, I tried
1. removing definition of fluid_usage_per_tick
2. limiting the consumption using fluid_usage_per_tick rather than energy_consumption
3. removing both definitions of fluid_usage_per_tick and scale_fluid_usage (behavior difference)
4. tweaking the volume_reservation_fraction of the input fluidbox
None of this differences in implementation solved the issue of the LED displaying "Low Power" while the boiler actually works as expected.
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The mod and the save contains only the bare minimum for displaying the bug behavior
