Mini Radar


A low-power and mini 2x2 radar, useful for base visiblity - only 75kW each.

Utilities
3 years ago
1.1
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b Radar works half the time

2 years ago

Heya! Just started using this mod, I love being able to incorporate this small design into my prefab railway sections. I don't need all my radar stations to scan far away sectors, I want to build large project using the map display.

There's just one issue with this small radar - they only work half the time! Every few seconds, they stop revealing the immediate area. Power isn't an issue, they just seem to turn off and on again every few seconds.

2 years ago

Hi! I think that might be due to the mod author left the "energy_per_nearby_scan" unchanged, resulting a longer time to refresh the nearby scan.
In vanilla, the radar consumes 300 kW, and each time a nearby scan takes 250 kJ to accomplish, the refresh rate is 250 kJ/300 kW = 0.8333 seconds.
So with this mini radar, the new refresh time will be 250 kJ/75 kW = 3.333 seconds. This is why you see it constantly blackout and work again.

Since the mod is not updated recently, if you want to adjust it, add the line

miniRadar.energy_per_nearby_scan = 62.5 kJ

in the modpack filepath Mini-Radar_0.1.1\prototypes\mini-radar.lua

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