Power Grid at night

[xIceCoffee]

I have a problem with my grid.
It says that i have a negativ balance of 60 at a max consumtion of 230 but my bats are able to deliver 350 so were is the problem?

[friday]

All batteries have some amount of power? Empty batteries can't deliver any energy.
Which is only a problem after building new ones. The next recharge cycle should somewhat alleviate that.

[Mr. Barrel]

Same here. Output capacity 560, discharging at -137. Power grid mentions max consumption 201, balance -201, consumes 137, shortage 64.
How should I read this?

[Aurora416]

The answer I posted on the other thread. So every battery has a discharge rate at night. Your small battery can only discharge 10 at a time. So if you have 20 small batteries, your max discharge is 200. If you consume 300 at night, you will always be 100 short. The game needs to explain that.

[DFOLT12]

thats what it should be, but i was -80, added 10 batteries and was still -80, things bugged

[Emelia]

I have been having the same issue and came here to look for a solution. Something does not seem right.

[MaryHaHaHa]

I have discharge rate at 120.My total consumption is around 80 and it always say I'm at -12 to -20 short at night.Should be a bug at battery discharge rate.

[Syl]

this is getting really annoying, i have a max output of 370, all batteries have charge, my max consumption is 320, yet i only use 270 resulting in stuff going down

[resonance]

It worked fine for me at the beginning, calculated properly and all that but it stopped behaving when my base got a little bigger. I wonder if only so many batteries will chain together before there is some loss. I do notice the game has the function of recognizing separate power grids. (If you have two fields of batteries not connected to each other it will show them as power grid 1 and power grid 2 when hovering on the power icon up top) So maybe it wants multiple grids? If so, that is something that REALLY needs to be explained in game.

Edit: I have tried to get two separate grids now and it won't do it, so not sure what to do with that.

[CoolNitro]

Its best to just ignore the power interface and random not enough power popups, my current base is sitting at 800 output with 600 draw and it still complains but it never caused any issues a random machine will turn off for a second then back on no matter how much extra output I oversupply.

[maximustrajan23]

Originally posted by CoolNitro:

Its best to just ignore the power interface and random not enough power popups, my current base is sitting at 800 output with 600 draw and it still complains but it never caused any issues a random machine will turn off for a second then back on no matter how much extra output I oversupply.

yes but doesnt it affect your "effiency" rate tho? For example if you had full power you could produce just as an example X amount of titanium bars.. but at only 1\2 power, because of the "draw" you are only producing half as much, when the power is low. Its not about whether some machine "will turn off" but rather mining and manufacturing at peak capacity.. anyway, im here because dsomething doesnt seem right and now my ADD has got me crisscrossing the game with multiple grids and wires and its still all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up lol anyway, thats EA for ya

[[DFA] Ender]

So the issue i had was that I had 0 power at night. My solar panels were able to charge the batteries, but I didn't have the batteries attached to the main power grid. During the day the machines were powered directly from the solar panels. My suggestion, is zoom in and look at the connections closely to see what is connected to what.

[Sangnz]

Originally posted by DFOLT12:

thats what it should be, but i was -80, added 10 batteries and was still -80, things bugged

The number it is displaying is the shortage which is the difference between the consumes and max consumption I have no idea why this number is even here as it has no bearing on anything.

What you should be looking at is the consumes number and seeing if is close to to your battery output if it is then you are fine.

IF you can get your base running perfectly then consumes and max consumption will be the same and your battery output is enough to cover you will get a 0 next to power.

[JeanDeaux]

Started a bug report on this myself, I agree something is off...
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1465470/discussions/1/4516631080135447959/

[MasterJohn]

that's nothing, i have 30 large batteries 6 fuel power plants, 50 medium solar panels to keep fully charged and at night i always have minus power, i generate over 4k power and use around 1200. i was trying to over generate to finally not see a minus at night and it's impossible!

[jhughes]

So, the bottom line is .. Grid Surplus does not take into account batteries. It is therefore useless to look at during the night if you use only solar panels and batteries.

Please watch this video to understand exactly what each term means and is measuring;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCVZdJ95zs

When running on only batteries, you just need to take battery Total Output Capacity (hover over the battery to get this number) and compare it to two things in the power list (hover over the electrical symbol) to see if you have a problem.

The two things are: Max Consumption and Consumes.

Consumes is what you are actually running. If you don't have at least that much Total Output Capacity, running equipment turns off. If you are also using things that work at night (fuel generators, RTGs), those can provide some power.

You want Total Output Capacity of batteries to be 'greater than or equal to' Max Consumption of the grid .. IF .. you only use batteries at night. If you use another source of power that works at night (fuel generators, RTGs, etc) those can provide some power.