When you place a steam request chest, it became from a different faction, then you can't mine or do anything with it.

a nvm, so it became a different faction if it runs out of steam..... why would it do that? Needing steam to remove or manual open it is quite annoying.

It's a limitation of the game and it is pretty annoying. There's no way to disable a logistics chest. I work around it by assigning it to a different force when it's out of power, but then it's impossible to mine them. Another way to deal with this would be to swap them out with a normal chest when they run out of steam. But that comes with it's own set of challenges like restoring circuits and requests.

Please +1 this bug from the forum to help me out, although I doubt they'll fix them before 2.0 comes out.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=111359

Yah, I had imagined was something to do with the game limitations. They probably won't do anything on this version anymore :(

I'm trying to use these on an SE game right now and it's a little frustrating to deal with. I might find a better way to implement it eventually, or just rush normal requester chests