I picked up the mod in the hopes I could control what was receiving power based on how much was stored in the network's accumulators. As in "Power Subgrid A will only use power when accumulator charge is above X%, otherwise Subgrid A is Offline." I didn't see anything that would allow for such a setup. Any way you can add this? As a Space Exploration user, some buildings are real power hogs, and Solar isn't always available on all surfaces. Cheers.

Hi, have you checked https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circuit_network_cookbook#Latches ? The example setup there appears to be what you want. Similar way the power combinator can be used for grid control with careful hysteresis setup.

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-max2344

the signal output of accumulators only gives a value of 0-100 PERCENT.
to do any setup that enables a sub-powergrid to be connected when accumulators have more than a current specific capacity of xxx J, we need to somehow get that value, either directly that current value or the max capacity of all accumulators (and then multiplying it by that percentage).

anyway, it would be nice to get one (or both) of these accumulator capacity values too, so that we don't have to count the accumulators (and possibly even several different stats when using modded accumulators) and then calculate that value manually outside of the game, each time we add some accumulators ingame.

Thanks for your suggestions, guys. Got it working just the way I need it to now.

Hi,

We implemented the capacity reading in joules in our project Capacity Combinator

Regards,

-max2344, dodo.the.last