FRIDGE

[anw]

Is kinda weird that my fridge already near to the outlet box but still it does not working.
Anyone has any ideas what goes wrong with my wire or something?
http://imgur.com/9VrwT7F

[yuval_2021]

try to follow the cable back to it source - sometimes you just put them and they spawn with no real connection... even if it seems like it is

[Uzi [OTG]]

EIther it is some stupid arcane bug you discovered or it is just a tad too far out
of range of that closest outlet.

If it is not a outlet range issue, it must be some goof bug that may require
you to install a new fridge .

Like sometimes the smithy acts stupid, and people fix by destroying it and rebuilding a new one. I've read that one before but never
had it happen to me yet.

[anw]

thanks for the reply

[Huntn]

I just ran into this yesterday. I installed a generator, put in some gas and started it. I connected wiring, each piece showed green when connected, I kept it under the floor with the outlet placed just under the floor. On top, I place a Fridge, it showed green as I placed it and a wire appeared between it to the outlet. However, the Fridge says "unpowered". Now I'm trying to figure out why. Any ideas? Thanks!

[anw]

Originally posted by Huntn:

I just ran into this yesterday. I installed a generator, put in some gas and started it. I connected wiring, each piece showed green when connected, I kept it under the floor with the outlet placed just under the floor. On top, I place a Fridge, it showed green as I placed it and a wire appeared between it to the outlet. However, the Fridge says "unpowered". Now I'm trying to figure out why. Any ideas? Thanks!

I figured it out long ago already. Just place your outlet box near the bottom side of your fridge then it should be worked.

[Huntn]

Originally posted by HaLYanG:

Originally posted by Huntn:

I just ran into this yesterday. I installed a generator, put in some gas and started it. I connected wiring, each piece showed green when connected, I kept it under the floor with the outlet placed just under the floor. On top, I place a Fridge, it showed green as I placed it and a wire appeared between it to the outlet. However, the Fridge says "unpowered". Now I'm trying to figure out why. Any ideas? Thanks!

I figured it out long ago already. Just place your outlet box near the bottom side of your fridge then it should be worked.

Where my Fridge is placed currently, when I placed it a wire appeared that goes from the Fridge to the nearest outlet. about 3' away. This should be an indication that I've got an electrical connection. Yes? Thanks!

[anw]

Originally posted by Huntn:

Originally posted by HaLYanG:

I figured it out long ago already. Just place your outlet box near the bottom side of your fridge then it should be worked.

Where my Fridge is placed currently, when I placed it a wire appeared that goes from the Fridge to the nearest outlet. about 3' away. This should be an indication that I've got an electrical connection. Yes? Thanks!

yes yes

[DrathDragoon33]

Power in lines is indocated by the color yellow.

Have you tried turning off the genny then turning it back on (seriously that has worked sometimes.)

Other than that you have to remake a few things and replace them (which also fixes bugs sometimes.

[Magic]

fridge is not connected to the outlet, i recomend to place a new outlet on the same spot. range is ok, you can out 7 fridges next to each other and the all can be powere with one outlet

[builder680]

Relog. Sometimes the zone needs to reload

[Huntn]

OK, I've figured it out. For my case, the wire must go to the small side of the generator, not the large spinning side. I was thinking that the wire as long as it intercepted any part of the generator, a connection is made, obviously not the case.

For anyone else scratching their heads, notes on electrical:
When placing a generator and wiring, note that the cable must be connected to the small side of the generator, not the large spinning side.
If the electrical connection is good, then the wire turns yellow and outlets have a blue pulsating light.
These lines can be run in the floor/ceiling, but are hard to see when doing this.
If the appliances is placed close enough to an outlet, a wire will appear connecting it to the electrical line.
Straight (horizontal) electrical lines appear to only like to go in one direction, to make a 90° turn a junction wire will be needed.

[Xyberviri]

The issue is power cables can snap to either the terrain/foundations/whatever and they can snap to other cables/generators.

some times the problem is you can't see if its green because you can place it in general or if its green because you can snap it.

I built over on herbavor island, i managed to get power in the entire bowl and not a single cable is above ground. I was able to do the same with almost all of my pipes. In all honestly your better off just using intersections when you can't see the wire. then you almost always get a snap point.

what you can also do is attempt to snap a vertical section of wire every so often to your underground wires, if you power the genny the wire will turn yellow, the same thing occurs with irrigation pipes, ones with a valid water source are blue tint.

One thing you can try to do is go into placement mode, then hit K to enter the orbital cam, zoom out as much as possible and try to clip though the ground plane, then you can see if you have existing cables placed correctly.