Conduits

[Charlemagne]

I gave up trying to place conduits on ceilings. A time ago there was a mod that supposedly fixed conduits so you could place them on ceilings but the author pulled it down because it didn't work. Placing conduits on the floor sucks and besides they obstruct movement and you have to jump over them. But yesterday I saw on YouTube a video about a Fallout 4 settlement and the guy had conduits on the ceiling all over the place. How is that possible? Is there another mod that does allow this, or some trick to do it?

[Wolförian Garmdomia]

Just use the ceiling conduits? I've no had trouble with them so far.

[gussmed]

Place one of the U-shaped vertical conduits. Those can rest of the floor. They vary in height, but at least one is short enough that if the bottom is on the floor, the top is just below ceiling height.

Attach your ceiling conduit to the vertical conduit. Remove the vertical conduit when you're done.

Sometimes the concrete walls don't want to let conduit placed near the ceiling pass through the wall. I don't know why. I need to investigate that one more.

[Wolförian Garmdomia]

Oh are you talking about those tube conduits? I don't use those, I just let the chords droop.

[Charlemagne]

@ Wolforian Well, in my game no conduit accepts to be placed on the ceiling, whether of the "floor" or the "ceiling" type. The "ceiling" ones do like the floor, though, they will rest there with the point downward like a top.
@ gussmed I tried that, but the conduit gets placed a tad below the ceiling level like floating. On your standard concrete buildings. It's a partial solution though.

[Qnomei]

They aren't supposed to go on the ceiling. They are for hanging work lights over conveyor belts and sending power to contraptions without needing wires strung everywhere.

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by Qnomei:

They aren't supposed to go on the ceiling. They are for hanging work lights over conveyor belts and sending power to contraptions without needing wires strung everywhere.

Really? They're not meant for houses and stuff? But they would be cool instead of having to pass wires through windows to take electricity inside. Besides, some of them really look like ceiling-oriented.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=771576895

[Charlemagne]

Hey I found this. It pretty much explains everything I wanted and perhaps it can help others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-2hPDPRIj4

[Qnomei]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Originally posted by Qnomei:

They aren't supposed to go on the ceiling. They are for hanging work lights over conveyor belts and sending power to contraptions without needing wires strung everywhere.

Really? They're not meant for houses and stuff? But they would be cool instead of having to pass wires through windows to take electricity inside. Besides, some of them really look like ceiling-oriented.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=771576895

You can't directly put them on the ceiling. That's what I meant. There's nothing stoping you from getting them high enough.

They go like this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709371785
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709371851
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709330484

I used them mainly to go on the edges of walls. I can't get any better screenshots of it because I deleted this save.

There's also a bug where they still transmit power when not snapped properly.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709993250
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709993522