how do i get a power switch to turn on speaker?

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thanks

[Thryden]

What do you mean by power switch? There's no such thing in game. You have to set it up using the circuit network.

[AlexMBrennan]

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

What do you mean by power switch? There's no such thing in game.

Maybe he meant the power switch[wiki.factorio.com].

In theory you could program a speaker using the circuit network, and then toggle power to the entire area but I find it difficult to imagine a reason for doing that. If you want to do that just program the speaker and then toggle power.

[haessliches Frettchen]

what you plan to do with that?

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i want a siren that i can turn on and off to annoy my "friends"

[Thryden]

Originally posted by 55555555555555555555555555555555:

i want a siren that i can turn on and off to annoy my "friends"

Easy. I assume you don't know much about the circuit network so I'm going to go into detail.

Set up a circuit network with a chest. Place a chest down and connect it to the siren with either green or red wires ( you can't use a combination of both). Put 10 iron plates in the chest. The chest will send a signal of 10 iron plates. Click on the siren and set it so that it turns on when iron plates is greater than 0. Woohoo! Siren will be on until the iron plates are removed.

I would suggest placing the chest far away from the siren and connecting the wires through the telephone poles. That way your "friends" will have a hard time figureing out how to stop the siren. Though they could just take it down or mute their sound....

[AlexMBrennan]

If you want to make it even harder then just place the speaker and set the condition to "iron plates=0" - no need to for any wires which will only draw attention.

Of course, it's fairly easy to remove since you can just whitelist speakers in the deconstruction planner

[Thryden]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

the speaker and set the condition to "iron plates=0"

duh... don't know why I didn't think of that. lol I usually always think of the complicated way to do stuff. But wouldn't you need at least one wire so it detects a circuit network?

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

the speaker and set the condition to "iron plates=0"

duh... don't know why I didn't think of that. lol I usually always think of the complicated way to do stuff. But wouldn't you need at least one wire so it detects a circuit network?

technically, even when it is not connected to anything, it is in its own tiny circuit network. Since it finds no plates, it should turn on.