electric circuit doesn't work for me - can anybody help please?

[Ellie]

Can anybody help me please because I can not seem to make the electric circuit work. I have just built a turret, an outside light and an electric switch. Set them all up to be electric circuit 2 and how I thought it will work is that if any of my characters turns the switch on, everything in electric circuit 2 (so my turret and the outside lamp) will turn on, and if they turn the switch off then everything in that circuit will be turned off. But when they press the switch on and off - absolutely nothing happens. I still have to manually go to each item individually to turn them on/off. Same happens with the low battery sensor (circuit 9). Thought it will turn the fuel generator on (also circuit 9) if batteries (they don't seem to have circuit assign) are below 30% (threshold I set) but literally nothing happens Is this some kind of bug or do I misunderstand something?

[Zep Tepi]

That is how it should work.

Make sure everything is set to the right circuit, and that a colonist has come over and made the switch. You can tell them to do it but they still have to walk over there. Make sure everything is connected through power lines. If the light and the turret are on circuit 2, make sure the switch is also. The battery sensor has an active and an inactive circuit, so it will do one thing below 30% and a different thing above 30%, make sure your generator is on the right one there.

More or less double check everything. It should work that way, but you may have skipped a step somewhere.

[Ellie]

Hi Zep, thank you for your reply - so I'm guessing its some kind of bug then. I have checked that:
- the outside lamp is on circuit 2 - connected to main power - works if turned on manually
- second floor turret is on circuit 2 - connected to main power - works if turned on manually
- first floor electric switch is on circuit 2. I believe it is connected because its in my house where everything else is working. Its also near fridge which is working and I tried two different locations
- Rakha is right next to the switch and I manually make him to 'handle the switch'
- the turret and outside lamp state does not change - if I manually turned them on they stay on regardless of the state of the switch, if they were off they remain off :(

I can't see the tab for reporting bugs - would you know how can I report this?

[Flin Fredstone]

in game CTRL + F1 and attach your save file.

[Ellie]

Thank you Flin!

[Stimpacker]

Originally posted by Ellie:

- the turret and outside lamp state does not change - if I manually turned them on they stay on regardless of the state of the switch, if they were off they remain off :(

Hmm, that doesn't sound right. The turret and light should NOT be working IF they are turned on but control circuit is set to 2 and the power switch on 2 is OFF.
Maybe I misunderstood the checks you did, the light and turret must be turned on (not sure you did this) and the control circuit set to 2 (you did this). Then the power switch on 2 will control them. Check that there are no other control devices on 2, e.g. thermostat, day/night sensor.

[jonnydoh]

I made the mistake once where I had all my electric heaters set to channels for Off/On and linked to a Switch and mistakenly set to the same Off/On channel to the Low Battery Sensor. End result were all my Survivors were passing out from the heat (I didn't catch the problem until the Summer months hit; I built everything in the Winter). If a Sensor is giving the ON signal, everything connected to those channels will be set to ON even if your Switch is telling them to be OFF.

You may have to pause the game and check all your devices to make sure everything is set to the correct channels/sensors. It's annoying, but I feel your pain.

[Shak Rivers]

Originally posted by Ellie:

Hi Zep, thank you for your reply - so I'm guessing its some kind of bug then. I have checked that:
- the outside lamp is on circuit 2 - connected to main power - works if turned on manually
- second floor turret is on circuit 2 - connected to main power - works if turned on manually
- first floor electric switch is on circuit 2. I believe it is connected because its in my house where everything else is working. Its also near fridge which is working and I tried two different locations
- Rakha is right next to the switch and I manually make him to 'handle the switch'
- the turret and outside lamp state does not change - if I manually turned them on they stay on regardless of the state of the switch, if they were off they remain off :(

I can't see the tab for reporting bugs - would you know how can I report this?

From what you are saying, it sounds like your lamps are physically turned off as you shouldn't be able to turn them on manually, unless you change the control circuit to none. The switch wont turn on items that are physically turned off, they need to be turned on as all the switch does is regulate the supply of electricity to the electrical items on the same control circuit.