Passive Power

[Yeti]

I have a few mods that say they use passive power (i.e. street lights in homemaker) and im not sure how to actually supply them with power. i have good amount of generators set up but they still dont turn on and say they need power. id ask on nexus but the comments are shut down on the mod.

[Yhwach]

Pylons.
They don't hook up to anything, rather, you use area energy from pylons or other sources related to that.
Just a reminder: "Power Switches" give off a tiny bit of area energy.

[Vinnie Mack]

this is going to sound stupid and like i am making fun of you, but i actually had this problem. My settlement had plenty of water purifiers and they seemed to be connected to my nuclear generator. Yet they were not working. Turns out i had them connected to one of those posts with a switch on it and the switch was off. This might have happened to you too.

[mainer]

Originally posted by Yeti:

I have a few mods that say they use passive power (i.e. street lights in homemaker) and im not sure how to actually supply them with power. i have good amount of generators set up but they still dont turn on and say they need power. id ask on nexus but the comments are shut down on the mod.

I love those streetlights from Homemaker so I don't have those ugly wires strung all over the place. But you need to run conduit pipes near where the lights are. In that conduit section of the workshop, there are little "power radiators" that you need to connect to the conduit line near each street light. That creates that "passive power" that you need for those lights.

[SchizoSquirrel]

Power pylons. The pylons radiate power in a cone that goes out from the bottom of the pylon. Conduit power radiators create a sphere of power, with the radior being the centerpoint. I use pylons more than conduit just cuz i find conduit tedious. Place a pylon on the exterior wall (or ceiling, or under to floor of an elevated structure) and it should power those items.

[Yeti]

thanks dudes got it working