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If too many machines turn on at the same time you can suffer brown outs like you are describing. If you click on a power pole you can look at a graph of your power consumption.
Like:
- do you have the max ratio of steam engines to boiklers? (2 enignes per boiler)
- do the inserters work all the time? (either you have a seperate network for the coal inserters with solar power (so it ALWAYS works) or you use burner inserters for the coal)
- do you have enough water even in the last boiler?
- is your coal conveyer line for power production enough for its needs? (make power production #1 priority)
Maybe give us some screenshots
Basically what happens is that you have a coal power plant system that is capable of producing an amount of power. This can be either limited by the amount of steam engines or the amount of coal you bring in. Then this happens:
1 You expand beyond the power limit.
2 Factory starts running at lower speed to compensate for insufficient power.
3 Miners slow down and bring in less coal.
4 Power production goes down
5 Loop to step 2
Eventually everything grinds to halt. It's a slow and silent killer than, if you're not keeping your eyes on it, will catch you by surprise.
Solution:
1. Kill power to part of your factory (by removing some power poles)
2. Keep some production of building stuff running.
3. Expand power production (and coal mining)
4. Reconnect the main factory.
There are some variations on this as well. If you use oil -> solid fuel -> steam engines, then you might get caught out by the fact that oil pumps reduce production over time. Solar is consistent, but not easy to build up quickly. Nuclear takes a bit of time to get your head around as well.
I totally understand this but my power generating capacity keeps jumping between 340 KW and goes all the way up to 130 MW. My capacity bar is green at that point and it maybe 1/5 of the total generating capacity. Coal lines are full. Water is full. I even put in fluid tanks to store steam and they never deplete.
Coal supply is adequate. Don't use solar, too expensive and time consuming to make anything worthwhile.
Yes of course, the whole base is connected.
Yes I have everything plus added extra water and boilers based on something I read about storing steam for fluctuating power spikes. This didn't solve the issue either.
I have no idea how to add screen shots, however I snapped a few using steam and uploaded them onto my profile for public view. How do I post them directly into the discussion? thanks
Yes I'm literally experiencing this right now lol. I think I will add another full boiler line and see where that gets me. I'm really trying to push to switch to nuclear power now but between the blackouts and bug attacks on various fronts and me raiding bug camps my time is very limited now. The biggest problem is if I have a brown out during a bug attack resulting in my laser turrets going offline. I got the big nasty behemoth biters starting to show up now so it can be very damaging lol.
my top two priority goals right now is increasing ammo generating capacity to build artillery shells for the train and getting my uranium processed for nuclear power generation.
As I said before, I have made sure that it is not a coal/water/steam issue. The problem is totally random.
Thought - Could it be the draw from the laser turrets taking priority and shutting down my electric inserters just long enough for the 4-6 coal lumps in the boilers to burn up and then not restart back up? I am beginning to think the blackouts happen when the bugs come which is literally all the time now lol.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198019178890/screenshots/?appid=427520#scrollTop=0
Yeah I thought it was individual URL's to paste each picture in here, didn't realise it was a gallery link. my bad
added steam pipe connection to all turbines with fluid tank storage
upgraded all belts to red and added storage boxes for coal buffer
None of that was working but then I added another med/big wire pole ontop of the existing connection and suddenly the issue is resolved.
I have double checked my original connection and it is 100% connected to the grid so I don't know wtf happened. is there a max power transmission on the poles? I still have small poles in the base that would have been xfering the power from the power plants, its the only thing I did not upgrade.
My generating capacity is so high, I think I use 1/10 of it now even when peak at 140 MW.
Or is it a glitch on the turbine power output when using boilers? 165F steam from boilers to turbines say 1.8 MW / 5.8 MW max capacity (max capacity is at 500F, makes sense), but clicking on a pole my capacity looks over whelming and wasted. last night i had 70 turbines, 70x1.8=126 MW, under power on the 136-140+ MW spikes from laser turret use. I get green bar status on satisfaction and supply though and then have the issues too?
having 80 turbines covers up to 144 MW using 165F water which meets the peak demands. Shouldn't my supply bar be yellow/red then and not indicate I have 1/10 usage? Misleading..
one boiler can produce steam to run 2 steam eninges full power. that would give you 1,8 MW (900 per engine).
You are using steam turbines which are for nuclear power plants. those can produce 5.4 MW...which is WAY too much for those boilers.
What probably happens: your boilers heat some water and the steam goes into the turbines. the turbines use it up almost immediately (remember: they can produce 5.4MW at full power) and then there is no steam left, that is the massive drop in produced power. then that cycle restarts.
To solve that: rebuild your power plant. use 1 boiler for 2 steam engines. one boiler+2 engine gives you 1.8 MW of power constantly (if you got enough fuel and water)
EDIT: you can run turbines with boilers (doesnt make much sense but you can). but to make it work your power peak usage should not be too high. otherwise it happens what I just described
EDIT 2: I sent you a friend request. that way we can chat if you got further questions. could also join your game it you set up a multiplayer game quickly. we got different timezone btw^^
EDIT 3: another edit^^ your buttom line of turbines seems not to be connected on the screenshot
Upgrade said yellow belt of Coal to a yellow belt of Solid Fuel, and you can feed 100 boilers, or four of the 1/20/40 arrays (and a fifth one, if really needed).
One 1/20/40 array gets you 36 MW. Two gets you 72 MW.