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Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 8:58 pm**

I set up an electric mining drill connected to steam engines with boilers (no coal in boilers).
Once I input coal in the boilers to start electricity production on the whole system, the mining drill won't start even if the electric indicator is full. In order for the drill to work, I need to pick it up and putting it back down in the same spot.

Here the top drill doesn't work. The bottom one works after I picked it up and putted back in the same spot.

: top drill not working, bottom one was picked up and put down to work; drills.png (3.46 MiB) Viewed 1742 times

Here's my working steam electric setup

: working steam setup; working steam setup.png (2.97 MiB) Viewed 1742 times

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 9:01 pm**

top miner is facing the wrong way. mouse over and hit R to rotate it so the arrow faces the belt.

[edit] welcome to the forums.

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 9:33 pm**

Thank you! I guess the visual clutter makes it difficult to see

Is there a way to hide or remove those bushes ?

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 9:55 pm**

Tensorlogic wrote:Thank you! I guess the visual clutter makes it difficult to see
Is there a way to hide or remove those bushes ?

enable ALT mode. and set in settings to show arrows (miners, inserters,...)

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 10:22 pm**

Thank you! it helps a lot.

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