generator bank - no power

[Anulu]

Hello

I'm currently having problems with the generator banks.
I placed and connected several, only one gives power, the rest give no electricity. I have checked the cable several times and have already reconnected it, it remains with the one that works. are there any known problems?

regards

[DthBlayde]

You can't chain generators together. The electrical system in the game is primitive at best. You can only have one power source on a circuit.

The exception is battery banks. You could do: Generator --> Batt Box --> rest of network or Solar Panels --> Batt Box --> network.

But not Generator --> Generator --> Network

[Anulu]

i know that, i have different generators for different circuits. 1 generator for light, 1 generator for turrets and 1 generator for automatic doors. the generators are not connected to each other.

The problem is, I've had this type of construction a few times and it worked, only recently have the problems arisen. Unfortunately, rebuilding the generators does not help.

[Vergetta™]

Hello, if your generators have Fuel and small engines installed they should work as intended.

I have not seen this problem before..

[Anulu]

yes, small engines are installed and fuel is in it, so I don't know why the generators don't work, as I said, this isn't the first time I've used this setup

[Vergetta™]

Hi again, I just thought that if your'e using relays, are they the timer ones that will only come on at a time set by you ??... Hmmmm

[Anulu]

hi, no timers involved so far

[Pook and Pie]

If you have engines and fuel into the generators and they're only connected to one thing and that one thing doesn't work, it reminds me of an issue I had back in either alpha 19 or early alpha 20 where my electrical work didn't function properly either.

I had a similar issue before and it was because the power.dat file in my save directory had corrupted or something due to a game crash. The power.dat file is overwritten on game close, and when something buggy happens with it, electrical work doesn't function properly in game.

Remove all engines, solar cells, and batteries, stash them in your inventory or chests, and then delete the power.dat file. You can try the backup file (power.dat.bak, rename it to power.dat), see if that fixes it, and if it doesn't, delete them both and rewire everything. Assuming you kept your engines and batteries like I said, rewiring isn't a big deal.

[BGratz]

Electricity is partially broken
180W Solar followed by a 300W Batterie bank.
Should mean that if more then 180W are used the Batteries should deliver the rest. Sadly it just means that all above ? 11 Turrets aka 165 Watt (+8 for relais, switch and a Light) dont work.

Stuff placed in the Poi editor strangly use less Energy
Turrets placed in POi editor will shoot you as "Stranger" (well thats not a bug, but unexpected).

A few bases ago this Power through (2 Sensors in a row) didnt work too. since i am anyway busy wiring my base i can check that just for fun now
Ok it works, not as one would expect but it works.

[Anulu]

Thanks for the tip Pook and Pie, I deleted the power.dat (backup didn't work either) and after filling up the generator banks and rewiring everything works again

[Pook and Pie]

Originally posted by DeathAngel:

Thanks for the tip Pook and Pie, I deleted the power.dat (backup didn't work either) and after filling up the generator banks and rewiring everything works again

Glad you got it figured out!