So what's happening is that it keep flickering on and off. I'd prefer either no light or light all the time.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/888589621078929458/930574625421803600/Factorio_2022.01.11_-_14.29.37.14.DVR.mp4

Thanks for your report. I'm fairly certain that the source power poles don't have light in normal Fluidic Power. However, under the hood it's an assembler, so it might be that one of your other mods changed something. Yould possibly supply me with a modlist? Then I might be able to fix it.

Oh, I was just looking at the poles I could see to see what they were modified by. I forgot you use compound entities. The culprit is probably https://mods.factorio.com/mod/inbuilt_lighting

Yeah, I don't think I can easily fix that on my end, unless that adds a way to ignore certain entities, but that doesn't seem possible at the moment looking at the code.

It's quite funny what's happening though. There's of course a power pole in my compound entity, so a light is placed below it. The generator turns on and off intermittently as the hidden fluid assembler creates the fluid, maintaining a steady supply. But, the hidden light only has power when the generator is actually running, because it can't consume my "power fluid". And hence it flashes! XD So essentially, there's no way to stop the flashing of source poles with hidden lights.

Yeah, I'll have to talk to the other modder. An exclusion would probably be best.

You could also switch to this mod which by simply using settings. Not sure how easy it will be to migrate to the new mod though. But if you figure it out I can give you a list of entities that it should ignore. However, this does mean that source poles won't emit any light, only the normal poles.

And what overhaul mod are you playing with? I don't recognise those generator entities, and it will be nice to hear that Fluidic Power is compatible with said mod.

Those generators are from https://mods.factorio.com/mod/turbinesplusplus, not an overhaul :)

Also, feeding laser turrets is getting complicated https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/888589621078929458/930946431886438430/unknown.png

Ah that looks really cool! Do you mind if I use that pic on the mod page? And IMO that's part of why this mod can be fun, supplying power large amounts of power at small locations.

What's bottlenecking in that setup though? Moving energy from the accumulators to the lasers should theoretically not be an issue, because each one of those substations should be able to deliver 100MW, which should handle your 30ish lasers fine (depending how modded they are :P). So I guess your accumulators keep running out, which means your transformers cannot charge it fast enough. IIRC each transformer can only supply 50MW, so you could do with more transformers maybe.

Each laser is using 7.7 MW. They say they're not modifier by anything, but...

And yes, you can use the image.

I'm also going to be doing Replicators with this. Those things are power hungry as well.

Mostly, I just kept adding more power delivery until they were no longer browning out.