Radar Using More Power Than Needed

[Meehael]

Hey guys,

in this setup, why is it reported that power is not satisfied as if the radar is using 20 kW more?

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Thanks

[Khagan]

Possibly because you are filling the internal power buffer of the radar that was depleted during the night.

[boskid]

This is because radar interacts with the electric network through an energy buffer. Energy buffer can hold slightly more energy than required for 1 tick of radar's operation and due to matching production and consumption, you are not allowing this buffer to fully charge. It basically needs an extra 20kW (based on the screenshot) for 1 tick for the buffer to become full. Electric network info is limited in what it can show and it shows everything based on the state of energy buffers. Specifically the Satisfaction bar shows how much energy would have to be provided to make all buffers able to charge up fully within 1 tick. Once all buffers are charged this value will go down.

[sparr]

Is the amount to be pulled or the size of the buffer exposed anywhere in the UI or API?

[Tertius]

If you hover over an electricity consuming entity, you see the fill state of the energy buffer in the popup at the right side of the screen titled "electricity". Usually it's full and green and nobody notices, but in case it isn't full, it has a smaller yellow or red bar.

In your case it will never get full, because the radar consumes as much as is consumed, so there isn't any surplus to go to the buffer. If you temporarily build another solar panel, there will be production surplus, so the buffer will fill eventually. If it is full, remove the additional solar panel and see what will happen.

[Panzerknacker]

Did this work or display different in 1.1?