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a clock for the network(for timeswitches) >> to switch on a powerplantarea at night. or maybe all 2 minutes...

***// or/and electric sensor that messure the power at grid as condition for (andything) specially to activate a powerplant if the power is too low.

(i specially have a really big part in my factory with 3000 electric furnace only on solar energy....at the moment i have to build a really complex combinator clock to keep that running only at daytime)

a condition connectet to the power in the factory would be helpful in many situations in my opinion

h//***



>>>>>edit: i have 300h in factorio and i didnt try to connect the accum. to a network-.-

but a sensor would be cool atleast^^if u dont know what to implement

Use the accumulator as a sensor of power grid status- if your current generation capacity is not keeping up, it will start to discharge. A little hysteresis arrangement to keep the switch from bouncing obnoxiously, and it is more or less trivial to automate things like emergency steam power.

show me a pic of ur automated steam emerge power. that only turns on when power and accumulater empty or low
btw i want to activate the nuclear reactors if the accumulators are 3/4 empty

etit: i never tryed to connect acc to the network^^ it already works .... thx for the tipp

I built a simple circuit to detect if the accumulators were increasing in power or decreasing. If they are increasing it means dawn, decreasing means dusk. I use it for daytime-only radars but it could work for daytime-only furnaces. Might fit your purpose:

Switch off radar when accumulators are decreasing

i got it much more ezer.
only one accum. on your main grid + 1 green cable + and the condition A< 50 turn on .... the arm or the reactor(A is the symbos the accum. is sending the hole time (A100 = full))
thats it

I don't see currently any urgent use-case for such a combinator. And game-play-value is rather low. Moved to not implement.