Wire tool not connecting battery to turret

[russ]

Please help me. I have an SMG turret with ammo and a battery box with batteries. I right click on the battery box but it will not make a live wire to connect the turret. What is going on?

[hljarvis9977]

Double check and make sure you're batteries are charged (little bar under the battery)

[Crater Creator]

If the wire turns red, you are trying to stretch it too far. Also, there's a limit to how many wires can come from the same unit. Using relays between the battery bank and the turret could help either of these issues.

[russ]

Thank you all for the info. I'll try it.

[Mardoin69]

I usually run my wiring like this;
generator (or power creation) to battery bank
battery bank to relay (or multiple relays if having multiple different branches)
from relay to each electrical device.

So, since you can only run x number of wires off of a relay, you may need multiple of them each feeding their own set of electrical devices. You also may need to run from first relay to a second (or multiple) relay in order to get the distance you need to go... cuz wiring can only go X amount of distance. This is also true in Real Life btw... a wire (size) can only go a certain distance before it will have too much resistance to adequately supply the necessary amp + volt load to devices. If needing to go further, you have to increase wire size to carry the proper load or else you risk burning up the wire. In game, we're limited to one size of wire so, we only get to go X amount of distance... at least, that's the logic I apply to the game, lol.

[russ]

makes sense, thanks