Induction Charging

Are you tired of running around with solar panels for a long time until you can unlock those precious portable fusion reactors? Or did you perhaps ever wish you could just charge your power armor from your electricity network?
Then this mod is for you!

Features

Induction Charging adds five tiers of research, from early game to endgame. With the first tier you unlock the Induction Coil recipe, which is the only thing you will need to craft. The coil has 1x1 dimensions and not that much throughput on its own; luckily you can use as many as you like! From there on out you can just research the next tiers to get improved throughput and efficiency.

Did I mention they also work in other equipment grids? They do! They also work in Spidertron, or other equipment grids if you install a mod that adds those, such as the awesome Vehicle Grid mod by Optera!

Review

Xterminator was kind enough to review my mod! I don't think it's possible for me to embed the video here, but you can follow this link to watch the video: Factorio Mod Spotlight - Induction Charging. Thanks Xterminator!

Research

The research tiers are currently balanced as follows:

Note that in vanilla Factorio, the Fusion Reactor provides a throughput of 750kW / 16 = 47kW per tile.

Usage

Using the mod is as easy as inserting the induction coil into your power armor grid, and you're done! Now, whenever you stand within range of power poles, the induction coils will automatically charge the batteries in your equipment grid. Do note however that it comes at a price! Per the technology tiers table above, we can see that on Tier 1 you will only have 10% efficiency. This means that (at Tier 1) with a single coil you will drain 15kW (base throughput per coil) * 0.5 (coil throughput multiplier) / 10% (efficiency) = 75kW from your power grid, but will only charge your batteries for 75kW * 10% (efficiency) = 7.5kW. The rest is lost to the inefficiency of wireless power transfer.

Optimisation

If you're short on UPS and you'd like to get as much as you can, then you can change the mod settings (Settings > Mod settings > Map > Induction Charging) to update less frequently. Here you can change either Update every ... ticks or Update position every ... ticks. The higher these values are, the less UPS-intensive the mod will be.

Feature / Change request

I'd love to hear your feedback! If you have some, or you would like to see a new functionality added, then please use the discussion page! I'm looking forward to reading what your thoughts are.

Credits

The following people can be found on the Factorio Discord server.

First, hats off to the amazing person by the name of IronCartographer. He's contibuted tons and tons to the development of this mod, from bringing ideas to the table, to balancing or helping me debug it. Be sure to thank him when you see him around!

Then, a big shoutout to the awesome people who helped me a lot with modding:
- Nexela
- Rseding91
- Bilka - Helpful Wiki Admin
- Gangsir - Head Wiki Admin

And last but not least the people who helped me here and there with small contributions:
- drch
- Rivers
- unique_2
- Rhamphoryncus
- Cruus
- JustTom
- FrozenCorgi

Let me know if I forgot you!

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