Batteries Exploding Randomly

[marat1793]

It's raining and stuff, but I don't think it would literally cause them to explode every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hour.

[Dire]

Originally posted by Actually That Communist:

It's raining and stuff, but I don't think it would literally cause them to explode every ♥♥♥♥ing hour.

Just build a roof over the battery

[Daffy]

They do need to be indooor :)

[Dire]

Originally posted by Daffy:

They do need to be indooor :)

they can still be outdoors they just need a roof over them.

[Daffy]

Originally posted by Joel:

Originally posted by Daffy:

They do need to be indooor :)

they can still be outdoors they just need a roof over them.

true but why would you ? they are very ugly and your pawns get sad looking at them everytime they pass.

[Brassqund]

There is two things:

Red Bzzz! = batteries overheat/wet

Yellow bzzz = random events. The explosion depend of the energy in your batteries.

Originally posted by Daffy:

Originally posted by Joel:

they can still be outdoors they just need a roof over them.

true but why would you ? they are very ugly and your pawns get sad looking at them everytime they pass.

Making it indoor can increase the risk of overheat, specially in hot biome.
This is even worst if you got generators there too. By opposite, that can be
some free heat for cold biomes.

In most case, this is just a question of taste/space

[Lawlzer]

Leave them outside, go to architect, zone, add roof... That way they'll stop exploding..

[Digger]

I've put my batteries outside before with a roof over them surrounded by flower pots...
It lowered the negatives as I did not want to waste the resources that I barely had as there was like only a few rock outcroppings and I ended up with about 200 bricks and not enough wood/steel T_T. That was a sad sad random colony haha. All it had was food and people were always mad about disturbed sleep.

[Proteus]

Originally posted by Brassqund:

There is two things:

Red Bzzz! = batteries overheat/wet

Yellow bzzz = random events. The explosion depend of the energy in your batteries.
...

Which is, why it is a good idea (if you have multiple batteries) to put a power switch between each of your batteries and your power net ... and only connect batteries on a case per case base, if a batterie needs to be reloaded or you need another full batterie (because the one currently cnnected to the net is empty).

This minimizes the strength of the explosion if you get a yellow bzzz.
And ideally it also means that you may still have energy for your power net (in those batteries that were disconnected from the power net at the moment of explosion)