Power switches?

[Wolfenacht]

Hello,
I don't remember seeing this specifically in the tutorial, but it is highly possible I missed it. I want items like the research table, smolder, etc to not use power unless they are being actively used. I thought the power switch would work the same way as like the low level alert and the motion sensor. That isn't the case though, far as I can tell. If I set the switch to 2 and the tables to 2, they always use electricity, if I set them to the inactive current, then they just stay offline. It's probably something really simple and I am just being dumb, anyone know how to fix this?

[Seelander]

its a manual switch so requires a handle action, but do work fine like that, i use it on my turrets and another for benches.

[Bjørn]

It would be nice if the survivors / characters had it included in their animation / task to always turn on the electric workbenches manually when using them, and turn them off when leaving them, since they all have their own power switches.

[Wolfenacht]

Yeah I find that the turrets do work well with the motion sensor so I don't have to remember to flick a switch.
I guess I am just shocked there isn't anything to turn off the bench when it's not in use, or the smelter, anything like that. Maybe I just assumed there was since the motion sensor and active line work so well, that it just made sense to have something like that for workstations.

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

It would be nice if the survivors / characters had it included in their animation / task to always turn on the electric workbenches manually when using them, and turn them off when leaving them, since they all have their own power switches.

This.

[Jaggid Edje]

I agree it would be a nice feature. I think the devs were heavily influenced by Rimworld, which also doesn't have that feature (unless you use a mod that adds it).

[Seelander]

Originally posted by Wolfenacht:

Yeah I find that the turrets do work well with the motion sensor so I don't have to remember to flick a switch.
I guess I am just shocked there isn't anything to turn off the bench when it's not in use, or the smelter, anything like that. Maybe I just assumed there was since the motion sensor and active line work so well, that it just made sense to have something like that for workstations.

the motion sensor do come with a drawback when hungry pests are around, can and will unintentionally fire on hungry pests... that said you can always have a powerswitch you can turn on and off when they spawn.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by tommy_b_schmidt:

the motion sensor do come with a drawback when hungry pests are around, can and will unintentionally fire on hungry pests... that said you can always have a powerswitch you can turn on and off when they spawn.

Hungry pests are food for you. (Or fuel.)