Circuit overload with heavy watt wire

[Mayo]

Hey,

All of a sudden I'm having a problem with overload. And it's my batteries and generators which overload, the transformers are all ok.

Atm, I have three manual generators and three coal generators. All of them are connected with heavy-watt wire together with 10 jumbo batteries. The batteries are then connected to three different transformers who distribute the power to my base.

And I only get overload on my manual generators and batteries.

Any Ideas?

[Bloodshot]

Check for loops in the circuit. When you accidentally connect the two ends of the transformer, it will spend every watt it can feeding itself. Sometimes loops not involving transformers can cause problems too, not sure why though.

[snuggleform]

Pics might help, steam has built-in screenshot taking capabilities.

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by Mayo:

Hey,

All of a sudden I'm having a problem with overload. And it's my batteries and generators which overload, the transformers are all ok.

Atm, I have three manual generators and three coal generators. All of them are connected with heavy-watt wire together with 10 jumbo batteries. The batteries are then connected to three different transformers who distribute the power to my base.

And I only get overload on my manual generators and batteries.

Any Ideas?

HWW and transformers seems like overkill if you're using coal and hamster wheels. Got a screenshot?

[Just a dog]

What happens to me most often is i miss to upgrade a single wire somewhere and that causes everything else to burn out.

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by KucheKlizma:

What happens to me most often is i miss to upgrade a single wire somewhere and that causes everything else to burn out.

Same here.Only hurts for a minute at least.

[Mayo]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1826574880

[Mayo]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1826574856

Here are two screens of my base around the power.

[Mykepatch]

How is temperature? (just an idea...)

EDIT: loop on batteries doesn't help. I don't know if it has any impact, but you can cut one side.

[Bokonon]

600x3 = 1800 (coal), 400x3 = 1200 (hamster). You're generating 3kW total. Absolutely no need for 20kW wiring or transformers, definitely overkill. But anyway ...

You have 4 fridges in the same 1kW wire circuit, that's 960 out of your 1000 right there. Granted not everything is always running at the same time but if you're frying wires, they are sometimes.

First, upgrade to conductive wire, that will double the allowed wattage for each circuit.

Second, use the power overlay before adding anything, hove over the wire and it'll show you a few lines down "327/750" kind of figures. This example would be using 327W right now of a total possible power draw of 750W. Don't let the second number exceed the wire's limit and you won't blow any more wires.

[Bokonon]

Originally posted by Mykepatch:

How is temperature? (just an idea...)

EDIT: loop on batteries doesn't help. I don't know if it has any impact, but you can cut one side.

I noticed the loop too but after thinking about it I think it's fine. I could be wrong but I don't think it's a problem. If I wasn't off to bed I'd test it.

[nakoda]

I would integrate those batteries vertically rather than a loop. Remove all the wire from the bottom bank of batteries, then connect individual lines straight down from above.

The problem is the wire gauge ... time for refined metals.

[L37]

Hamster wheel near the coal generator is connected by regular wire which is already broken. May be this is the source of issues?
Other than that things look fine, just... be carefull with using a lot of batteries, they waste power, look into smart battery...
Also, generators and batteries insulated like that will overheat eventually, you will have to do something about it too...

[snuggleform]

Can you redo the picture but with the power overlay on (F2)

[Mayo]

Originally posted by L37:

Hamster wheel near the coal generator is connected by regular wire which is already broken. May be this is the source of issues?
Other than that things look fine, just... be carefull with using a lot of batteries, they waste power, look into smart battery...
Also, generators and batteries insulated like that will overheat eventually, you will have to do something about it too...

Thanks mate, that was the problem. One piece of regular wire at the start of the wheel, didtn't notice it.

Thanks for the rest of the comments. I'm working on cooling the rooms as well.

[MaxKool007]

Try and cut down on battery use.
I see this in a lot of the newer player bases.

Think about it for a second.

1 generator and 1 battery say takes 10 seconds to drain and charge.

1 Gen and 2 batteries takes 20 seconds to drain and 20 seconds to charge.


You literally gain nothing by having tones of batteries. You create a crapload of heat and you loose power. Each batter has bleed off, with 10 batteries you are prolly loosing almost half a battery to bleed every charge or so.



So tip one is cut the batteries back, then use the power overlay to find the wire problem.