Hydro Dam not generating power.

[RiversOfGoy]

I've tried putting it in 3 different places and it refuses to generate power. Size varied between 44k and 80k build cost.

[Dissenter]

+1 Having the same problem.

[Dr Sigmund Adegas Freud]

I have Hydro plant generating 1285 costed me 220k. I took almost half-hour at max speed for the rive to recover its natural flow.
I created a map specially so i could test the maximum potencial of the hydro.
EZ way make a map with a deep river bed, and my water source came from mountains(with big water falls) in smaller rivers connecting to a big one to a big one. water source set to 1.00 not 0.50.
In the real world a hydro power plant can take months to achiev its full potencial.
I have 2 maps witch i tested this, currently on workshop.

[Kai]

It seems like you can flood yourself with sewage water if used incorrectly, so i wonder if sewage drains can be used to increase a dam's water content so it pushes it further?

[JErosion]

when i frist set my Hydro dam it was clocked in at 170 MW but a few months in game later it was producing about 240MW

[Akim]

Wind and Water power always fluktuates. It's a bit weird with the dam, you expect a river to usually flow always the same. At least rivers HERE do. ;)

[Commexo Kid]

My problem with Hydro is, it keeps turning on and off.... Not sure what is going on.

[Dr Sigmund Adegas Freud]

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197962270397/screenshots/?appid=0

[Kupferdrache]

The Hydo damm takes a good while before starting working, because the water musst first level it self.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Akim:

Wind and Water power always fluktuates. It's a bit weird with the dam, you expect a river to usually flow always the same. At least rivers HERE do. ;)

Wind is static.

[Droknar]

For a hydro dam to work, you need quite a height difference between the upper and lower part of the dam. For example, if the height of the water behind the dam is like 10 feet higher than the water below than you will produce very little, if any, power. Where as if the water level behind the dam is say 30 feet higher you will produce more power.

As for the water flow problem, it has to do how the water spawners work. When water is spawned by the spawn point, it sends 3 waves outward from it center but those 3 waves are not connected. There are gaps inbetween them that don't spawn water as the waves pass by. So say where the water spawner is in a lake, it could send those 3 waves towards the bank of the lake and have an empty gap that points to the river exit. What happens is it takes longer for that water to bounce off the bank and then flow to the river, in the meantime the river level drops. Cause of this there are times when my dam suddenly stops working as well, then as the water catches up it floods over top of it untill it turns back on.

[Kai]

Would be nice to have the ability to terraform the land then.

[Morwo]

Originally posted by Droknar:

For a hydro dam to work, you need quite a height difference between the upper and lower part of the dam. For example, if the height of the water behind the dam is like 10 feet higher than the water below than you will produce very little, if any, power. Where as if the water level behind the dam is say 30 feet higher you will produce more power.

THIS definition solves the damn hydro plant dam situation. working !
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=508067566

[Havan_IronOak]

Check out what this guy says beginning at 6:18 in his video. I think he explains your intermittent power generation issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yfpYQ00baQ&index=29&list=PLbCLzFKeiWkPKe53RM24qh1vzhn9PBXuf