Trying to power a floor lamp without success

[Emm]

Hello! I'm in Sanctuary and trying to figure out how to power the floor lamp. I have my generator. I have my pylons. I have my conduits. Everything is wired. When I place the floor lamp, it's initial state is ON. When I mouse over I have the option to activate the lamp. That turns it off. HOWEVER, when I then activate it again, it will not turn on. I can return it to the workshop, then place it again, and it defaults to ON once more.

I've tried playing with a switch in the mix with no change. I tried making a switched pylon - no change.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Thanks for your help!

[Rickety Cricket]

same :/

[Flaminski]

Which floor lamp, name the model you want to put

[Moon Rabbit]

It took me forever to find any decent info on powering a house because people always left out one very important step.

To get any kind of furniture powered items to function you need to create a Power Conduit and attach it to the floor, wall or ceiling (depending on which version you make) then wire it to the generator.

What a power conduit does is it creates an AoE (area of effect) that powers anything in range that doesn't connect directly to the generators.

1. Build and place a generator.
2. Build and place a Power Conduit.
3. Connect Generator to the Power Conduit with a wire.
4. Place lamps, TV, jukebox, etc near conduit.
5. To spread power further, connect conduit to other conduits.

[SomKilla]

i have been putting a power coduit on each corner of buildings and in the middle of outside walls so i can run a wire around the house, so i have the wires running around the outside, and have power poles running down my street to the power gen area and the big water pump in the water by the bridge entrance

sometime when i cant get the wire to the middle conduit on the out side i put 1 close to the corner edge ones to help go around the corner, been thinkin of replacing the conduits on the edges to a small power pole

[Brummbar]

I have the same problem. All the lights that you can turn on and off , as soon as they're off they won't come back on. Shame because most of those lights look rather cool, much better than the 2 boring lamps.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

Sometimes ceiling fans don't spin except when you 1st install them. The light will be on when you return back to the camp, but they won't be spinning. Odd. Sometimes powered things within radius of power stop working properly on return. Wired things are fine.

[rhymeswithevil]

I fixed this by going into workshop mode, stored the lamp in the workshop, then immediately placed the lamp back in the original spot and it was on again. Unfortunately you have to do that every time you want to turn it on after having turned it off.

[Aries the Grinning]

Originally posted by rhymeswithevil:

I fixed this by going into workshop mode, stored the lamp in the workshop, then immediately placed the lamp back in the original spot and it was on again. Unfortunately you have to do that every time you want to turn it on after having turned it off.

Nice try, but this message would need 1.21 gigawatts to be off any use. And it's technically still no fix... 3.5/10 for necromancy

[kilroyonline]

Looks like most people are "over" this issue by now; however, I'm not. :) There is, at least so far, only one floor lamp I cannot get to illuminate. The Globe lamp. I built a little room next to a nuclear reaction just for this overall tall beacon-less lamp. I put pylons in proximity and conduits on all surfaces - All to no avail! Does anyone have a picture or video demonstrating how to power this particular floor lamp? (Please don't reply with generic instructions (or if you do, don't expect me to pay you no never-mind.) Thanks! :)

[sirchet]

There is a great mod on the Nexus that allows you to power the entire settlement with just one power pole, the AoE is huuuuuuuuuuuuge. :)

Its called Long Range Power Poles[www.nexusmods.com]

You can disregard the mod author's warning that it may not work with the new version because it does work and works well at that.