Fridge unpowered

[thestile]

I have solar panels and battery banks that are nearly full capacity and the fridge is unpowered at night. The fridge was on, for sure, but now it's unpowered come night time. I can only assume the battery banks don't work or they need to be directly connected to the device itself.
If it's the case that the banks need to be directly connected to devices, it shouldn't work that way.
Anyway, if anyone knows how that works, i'm curious.

[Firerain]

is it possible its damaged? ive noticed that sometimes they malfunction but the game does not tell you. if you click on it and it says "Repair". that maybe the issue, or if you have moved a power pole recently, sometimes it does not connect you need to pick it up and place it again for it to right itself.

[Wotannatow]

From what I read, I would interpret the evidence being your powergrid uses more power than your batteries can provide. Each battery can discharge 100 power. Check if you got any broken batteries and build more of them.

[Don Cool]

Each battery is capable of delivering 100 power, lets say you have 3 batteries. They are capable of giving you 300 power at night.

Your sun supplied grid is delivering 600 power during daytime, that´s just enough to recharge the batteries for a night supply.

However you are drawing 320 power, the batteries are only delivering 300 ... so you are 20 short and the grid goes down at night.

[DarkHorse]

Originally posted by thestile:

I have solar panels and battery banks that are nearly full capacity and the fridge is unpowered at night. The fridge was on, for sure, but now it's unpowered come night time. I can only assume the battery banks don't work or they need to be directly connected to the device itself.
If it's the case that the banks need to be directly connected to devices, it shouldn't work that way.
Anyway, if anyone knows how that works, i'm curious.

I'm guess you either have your grid setup incorrectly ..maybe your using circuits when you dont need to and they are not right. Or your power poles are not connected to your building where your fridge is.. Its really hard to say without seeing your grid.

[thestile]

Originally posted by DarkHorse:

Originally posted by thestile:

I have solar panels and battery banks that are nearly full capacity and the fridge is unpowered at night. The fridge was on, for sure, but now it's unpowered come night time. I can only assume the battery banks don't work or they need to be directly connected to the device itself.
If it's the case that the banks need to be directly connected to devices, it shouldn't work that way.
Anyway, if anyone knows how that works, i'm curious.

I'm guess you either have your grid setup incorrectly ..maybe your using circuits when you dont need to and they are not right. Or your power poles are not connected to your building where your fridge is.. Its really hard to say without seeing your grid.

Yeah, I can't really supply much more info in a comprehensible way.
I can see the little power lines running from the poles to the fridge and I have 3 battery banks with close to 2000 power and they appear to be connected to the poles. And I know the fridge WAS working and I have almost no other electrical devices other than 2 heaters and an electric stove but I had all of them toggled off (but not the fridge) to use less power.

Anyway, I appreciate the input from you and the others. I'll just watch other YouTubers connect things up.

[thestile]

Originally posted by Firerain:

is it possible its damaged? ive noticed that sometimes they malfunction but the game does not tell you. if you click on it and it says "Repair". that maybe the issue, or if you have moved a power pole recently, sometimes it does not connect you need to pick it up and place it again for it to right itself.

I'll look into it being damaged. TY