power grids

[crane26]

idk how i got 6 power grids and why my machines keep saying not enough power to machines. i have a lot of large batteries and medium size solar panels. it shows on one of the grids its not getting power when my battery is on 100 % with 730 output. i produce well over my consumption. so im confused on how i have so many power grids and why my machines in the far back wont get power and yes they are all connected by wires for power. please help

[Inquisitor Poe]

im not entirely sure how the power grid system is divided yet, but lemme guess, you are only getting those "not enough power" messages at night correct? so when its day, look at your total amount of power usage,

Batteries can only supply a limited amount of power back. So think of it this way, Battery holds X amount of power, but can only let Y amount of power be used when there is no sun. Sorta like a water dam where the sluice gates are only open a little bit and not fully, but you cant control the gates unfortunately.

So i know small batters can push out 10MW of power PER battery and large batteries are 50MW of power. So lets say you have a factory that during the day eats around 1kW of electricity but at night, half of the machines dont work cause you cant provide the same amount of power needed and in order to do that, you would need 1 000 mW / 10 mW = 100 batteries at least (if on small batteries) to even be able to supply enough power flow for your factory to work optimally... thats not even counting in for drone recharge.. Hope this helps.

[resonance]

If it says you have multiple power grids it means they are not all connected properly. Go into wiring and make sure that they are all not just connected to each other but also to the main line that feeds into the elevator. Just showing green is not enough. If I connect two solar panels to each other and nothing else, they will show as green as they are connected to something, but will not be supplying power to anything and will register as their own power grid.

[Keldrath]

If you have multiple grids it means they’re disconnected from each other you gotta check the lines and figure out where you missed one so you can connect them back together.

[Montague]

It took me several hours of game play to spot where I had a missing wire connection on a large battery. I had been adding batteries every game day with no effect on how quick they drained at night.