Energy Combinator

by VinDust

Fork of PowerCombinator by Peter Meter, updated to 2.0 Quality ignored. Currently not working in global electric networks (Space Platform) Have power consumption and power production as signals in your circuit network. Additional envelope signals for maximal projected electric production/consumption are also provided. We use the electric network id for accounting of all calculated values within each electric network.

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5 months ago
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Circuit network

g What is 1/10^x value?

5 months ago

Please explain :)

5 months ago

Value of "1/10^x" signal means all production, consumption, etc outputs multiplied by 1 / 10^(value-of-that-signal)
By default it's equals 3
=> multiplier = 1/10^3 (or 1e-3)

Example:
We have 1.5MW consumption = 1_500_000W ("_" is thousand digit separator, for readability)
If "1/10^x" == 3 then
1_500_000 * (1/10^3) = 1_500_000 / 1_000 = 1_500KW
=> consumption-signal = 1_500

Speaking of, what you think, is changing of this value needed? (Currently changing that value not implemented)

5 months ago

Oh, I see :)) it's simply divider (multiplier) for W -> kW conversion :)

Well, my opinion is that the more features and settings, the better. :)

But personally, I haven't figured out how to use your wonderful mod in my game yet :)))

a month ago

i personnaly use it in combination with a mod that give me the ability to craft a stupidly high capacity accumulators, like, 1 PETA joules ( 1 peta=1000 terra= 1 000 000 giga joules )

but i can't build that accumulators until late game, so when i implement it, as i control my nuclear powerplants by reading the level of an accumulator, and that the previous system was always able to catch the grid when it was falling bellow 25% of charge, that means that the peta joules of accumulators i added later where not really usefull until the whole grid got through like millionS of cycles

but with this mod, i can get more input from the power status of the grid that, i hope, will help me to deal with the problem i have at hand

otherwise, i will have to deconstruct and reconstruct the controling accumulators of the powerplant everytime i add a petajoule accumulator to the grid, maybe i could do somekind of reset signal ? like isolating that accumulator from the rest of the grid by using power connectors, and using a latch to only reconnect to the grid when the signal of the accumulator is below like 2 % ?? meh , fiddleling is part of the fun ^^ have a nice day

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