can power transmitters split and go to two bases?

[Tman]

I've been trying this all day and it appears that you can't do this.

When I have a power transmitter, it will go to one base. If I start to chain more power transmitters to continue on, they power will bypass the base. It's like power will go to the furthest power transmitter.

Is there a trick to making a long chain with multiple bases powered by one ?

For the record, I know this is a strange request. I am trying to build a set of paths using power transmitters to all the wrecks and interesting POIs. While I could do this with solely power transmitters, I was hoping that I could string bases along the power line as well.

[theresejesu]

well, I don't know the answer to your qusetion, but I have a solar panel powering 2 bases .....sending full power to each base.the two bases are right next to each other but on different layout angles, so can't connect them. One of the solar panels I put on the second one decided to hook up to the first one too and is powering both sending 75 watts to both bases.

[Ataxio]

P sure I tried this b4 and It diddn't work. Had a bunch of solar panels on a raised platform, and wanted to pipe the power from that down to my base, but it would never make the connection. Probably because it considerd the platform a seperate base.

[PrimeSonic]

I tried this out and it doesn't work.

I wanted to get a nuclear reactor to power a remote base but nope.
Also tested with solar panels and thermal reactors and nope also.

No number or configuration of power transmitters will connect any single power source to more than one base. The closer base will trump the further one.

You can connect one base to many power sources but there can only be a single destination for that power.
Different bases can't share power.

Originally posted by theresejesu:

well, I don't know the answer to your qusetion, but I have a solar panel powering 2 bases .....sending full power to each base.the two bases are right next to each other but on different layout angles, so can't connect them. One of the solar panels I put on the second one decided to hook up to the first one too and is powering both sending 75 watts to both bases.

They may not be connected but the game is treating them as a single base. That's why it looks like a single power source is being shared.
This can happen if they're close enough.

I tested that out too. Found that if the pieces were close enough, they would still be treated as one even if you needed to go through the water to get from one to the other.

Try doing this with bases that are really separated and you'll find that each one will need its own power source.

[theresejesu]

Originally posted by Alexstratos:

I tried this out and it doesn't work.

I wanted to get a nuclear reactor to power a remote base but nope.
Also tested with solar panels and thermal reactors and nope also.

No number or configuration of power transmitters will connect any single power source to more than one base. The closer base will trump the further one.

You can connect one base to many power sources but there can only be a single destination for that power.
Different bases can't share power.

Originally posted by theresejesu:

well, I don't know the answer to your qusetion, but I have a solar panel powering 2 bases .....sending full power to each base.the two bases are right next to each other but on different layout angles, so can't connect them. One of the solar panels I put on the second one decided to hook up to the first one too and is powering both sending 75 watts to both bases.

They may not be connected but the game is treating them as a single base. That's why it looks like a single power source is being shared.
This can happen if they're close enough.

I tested that out too. Found that if the pieces were close enough, they would still be treated as one even if you needed to go through the water to get from one to the other.

Try doing this with bases that are really separated and you'll find that each one will need its own power source.

As I said, mine is doing it.

If the game was treating them as a single base, then they would be sharing ALL power sources? But they aren't. They are sharing only this one power source, this one solar panel, and it's sending FULL power to EACH base simultaneously.

I have 2 bases right next to each other. They do not align and cannot be connected, being at different angles and levels. but they literally come up right next to each other (they were supposed to be one base, but that didn't work out like I planned).

Below is inside the 2nd one, which is powered by 2 solar panels - for a total of 150W.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370083920

Below is from inside the 2nd one, approaching the 1st one. You can see one of the solar panels on top of the stack of multipurpose rooms the tunnel leads to. The moonpool belongs to the first base, and is at a different angle and level than the base I am in can connect to.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370084127

Below is from outside showing one of the solar panels on the 2nd base, (one of the two providing power totaling the 150W total show in the previous pictures for that same base), ALSO connected to the FIRST base with that power line/tether crossing over to the glass elbow tube which is part of the FIRST base:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370084411

And here is a picture from inside the moonpool, which is attatched to the FIRST base, and as you can see through the window, sits at a different angle than the tubes from the 2nd base. You can see the total power in this 1st base is 1475 W.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1370084873

Without that other solar panel from the 2nd base, the 1st base has:

• 2 solar panels totaling 150W (75 x 2)
  
• 2 Bioreactors totalling 1000W (500 x 2)
  
• 1 Thermal reactor totalling 250W (250 x 1)

Altogether that equals 1400W.

But the total power in my first base is 1475W

That amount equals all the power sources attatched to that 1st base PLUS the 75W from that other solar panel on the 2nd base that has tethered itself to my 1st base too.

Each solar panel can store 75W.

That 75W solar panel on my 2nd base, also tethered to my first base, is providing 75 W to the 2nd base AND 75W to the 1st base at the same time.


(I know, I know, I've done broke the game again ......)