If you can make overloading poles, what about overloading assemblers? What about accumulators that explode of their capacity is exceeded?

Just some idea ;-)

Yes, that should be quite easy to add. I'll probably have it off by default though.

everything explodes... that will make for an interesting experience.

In vanilla, there's never any sense of going _too_fast. Your machines go from 0% to 100% depending on the electricity. If ALL you machines explode at 100%, you're going to have to do some math to figure out what range of watts it can handle and you'll have to setup a sub-grid via a transformers mod to at least keep it under 100%.

You can even setup a bunch of transformers and switches and combinators to make a "potentiometer" which lets you dial in the amount you want. You'd be able to scale up and down production by a signal. You'd could also blow it up with the wrong signal.

Oh, you mean assemblers/accumulators etc exploding if their electrical buffer fills up? That would be quite different to the power pole explosions then, but also easy to implement. In order to play with it like that, my transformers would have no effect, but you’d definitely need power switches. To be honest I’m not sure it would be playable at all?

I'm not sure I understand. I need to take a closer look at your code to see how you implemented this.

Perhaps, the machines simply take damage when high voltage is applied?

I've spent some time learning and I now see potential for 2 different mods
- PowerOverload - items are damaged by excess wattage. This can be limited to poles, or not, with gradual damage, or not. Also includes fuses?
- ThingsFallApart - items are damaged by full buffers (by it electrical, steam, water, etc)

Agreed. I’m not planning on making the second one though, so feel free to do so yourself. You can, of course, use any code from this mod (respecting the LGPL license that I’ve inherited from beltlayer).