how do I connect accumulator to my main power line?

[Anastasia]

do I simply just connect the accumulator to main power line or do I need to something else before that? I have connect my accumulator, but it seems my power production or consumption still the same/nothing is change or happening

[Hedning]

If the accumulator does not flash with the warning symbol then it is connected. It is connected the same way an assembler is.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Place accumulators in the power zone of any electric pole/substation. They will charge from excess power production and discharge if power production is insufficient to meet demand (e.g. sudden mass laser discharge).

[Hedning]

You can check if it is fully charged by hovering your mouse over it. When fully charged it will not do anything to your power grid until your generators or panels cannot supply your machines.

[Anastasia]

Originally posted by Hedning:

If the accumulator does not flash with the warning symbol then it is connected. It is connected the same way an assembler is.

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

Place accumulators in the power zone of any electric pole/substation. They will charge from excess power production and discharge if power production is insufficient to meet demand (e.g. sudden mass laser discharge).

Sorry I dont quite understand with this answer

Below is my power setup details without connecting to accumulator
https://imgur.com/zVDzjIV


while this one below is connected to accumulator.
https://imgur.com/bYshzdu

I dont know if i should mind the details below, but according to the green bar above, there's literally nothing changes. so I'm confused if my accumulator actually doing something or not

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

The accumulators are fully charged and therefore idle as you are producing about 4x the power that you need.

[Hedning]

Read my post #3

[Drevin]

Well, I'm new, so I'm not a savvy veteran, but as far as I can see, you have 90 accumulators and they are fully charged, since you have 450MJ available. You also have 36.8MW of power being produced, and at the time of the screenshot you were only consuming 1.6MW, so only a tiny fraction. Only if you will consume over 36.8MW, will the accumulators be drained of energy. Until then, they will stay full until there is need for them.

Imagine, if you will, that you buy some batteries for your TV remote. In the package they are fully charged, waiting for someone to put them to use. Once you put them in your TV remote, they will be drained every time you use the remote, until you will need to buy new batteries.

Maybe the example above is not so great through. Batteries are one time use, accumulators can be recharged, but I hope you get the point.

[Getti]

accumulators will not replace steam power automatically, try to install a power shutoff toward those steam engines when the accumulator signal is above 10%, that way you'll save tons of coal.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Power_switch

when i first tried to switch towards solar energy i faced the same issue with accumulators not discharging during night, untill i disconnected the steam engines manually

[AlexMBrennan]

I dont know if i should mind the details below, but according to the green bar above, there's literally nothing changes. so I'm confused if my accumulator actually doing something or not

I am sorry, but are you literally blind?

First screenshot: Accumulator capacity 0J
Second screenshot: Accumulator capacity 450MJ

To make this change more obvious a huge green bar appeared to direct your attention to the change.

[Lunacy]

Just have it in the same power grid. If you don't have solar then they will be backup power in case you start overproducing and need to add more boilers.

[Modran]

I am a little confused about what you expected to happen. Do you want the accumulators to discharge even though there is more than enough energy provided by the solar panels?

[Bread]

place a switch separating the steam power grid and the solar power grid, once this is done, make sure the acumulators are connected to the solar side, and in the separation make sure there is a power switch, i'll provide a screenshot of my set up later, the idea here is that you can have 2 power grids that act independetly from eachother, and with the use of a set-reset latch you can automate when the steam power kicks in (mine is set to activate whenever the acumulators charge reaches 10%).

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Anastasia:

Originally posted by Hedning:

If the accumulator does not flash with the warning symbol then it is connected. It is connected the same way an assembler is.

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

Place accumulators in the power zone of any electric pole/substation. They will charge from excess power production and discharge if power production is insufficient to meet demand (e.g. sudden mass laser discharge).

Sorry I dont quite understand with this answer

Below is my power setup details without connecting to accumulator
https://imgur.com/zVDzjIV


while this one below is connected to accumulator.
https://imgur.com/bYshzdu

I dont know if i should mind the details below, but according to the green bar above, there's literally nothing changes. so I'm confused if my accumulator actually doing something or not

so much changes, firstly your max power production zoomed up to 36.8MW instead of the 7.7MW it was at before and you also now have 450MJ in storage, very far from "literally nothing changes"

[Anastasia]

Originally posted by Modran:

I am a little confused about what you expected to happen. Do you want the accumulators to discharge even though there is more than enough energy provided by the solar panels?

I want my main power to switch to accumulator until its completely empty then switch back to coal once its running out

[Anastasia]

Originally posted by Bread:

place a switch separating the steam power grid and the solar power grid, once this is done, make sure the acumulators are connected to the solar side, and in the separation make sure there is a power switch, i'll provide a screenshot of my set up later, the idea here is that you can have 2 power grids that act independetly from eachother, and with the use of a set-reset latch you can automate when the steam power kicks in (mine is set to activate whenever the acumulators charge reaches 10%).

yes, please do, because I honestly confuse and dont understand how do latch actually works for my setup, since its different