Smart battery

[Seleck]

I'm trying to set a smart battery to shut down the generator when it's full but the regular batteries don't charge at all as the smart battery for some reason takes all the energy first, am I doing something wrong?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509225824

[leaderdog]

Won't work the way you have it.

Generator needs to be hooked up with Automation wire to the Smart Battery.

Then when that specific smart battery is full it will kill the generators. (all generators you want to shut off have to be connected via automation wire to the smart battery.


I put the big line power into my smart battery, have it close to the generators and all generators hooked up to that smart battery.

Then the power line feeds off to the transformers.

[Seleck]

Originally posted by rpierce:

Won't work the way you have it.

Generator needs to be hooked up with Automation wire to the Smart Battery.

Then when that specific smart battery is full it will kill the generators. (all generators you want to shut off have to be connected via automation wire to the smart battery.

i have it like that, the problem is that when the smart battery is full the other batteries are at 10-20% so they never get fully charge

[leaderdog]

Maybe this will help.:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/913549078511947264/7C58FA5E7D0C39B03E985149F70B8F81FEFCB6FF/

I have:
Generators -> Smart battery -> Transformer -> Another smart battery with shut off automation.

This way the main smart battery feeds the other smart batteries that shut off so it's not a constant draw and they flip on at around 20-25% to refill from the top batteries. Then the generators kick on. So as long as the smart battery is feeding the others, the other batteries always get the juice when they need it.

The automation goes to only the first smart battery in the row.



In your case if you have the dumb batteries after the smart battery, the smart battery will kick on to fill the others.

[capt.phoenix]

I'm no expert, but that setup isn't what I would do. It seems unneccessarily complex. I haven't used that many batteries since I discovered automation. It's just a heat generator. I don't care how often the generator kicks on and off; it's still running for the same minutes per day - that number is based on usage. Generator => Dumb Battery =>Smart Battery => Several Transformers powering circuits. That basic setup hasn't caused me any trouble.

[Seleck]

so to make it work i had to let the other batteries charge and then build the smart battery, that's just my oxygen generation i need to shut down the generators to avoid consuming all the hydrogen
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509259130

[Crystal_Ignition (exo)]

*redacted* (see blow for what it was)

[Seleck]

Originally posted by Crystal_Ignition (exo):

run the power through regular batteries first and becarefull of where to put it, a power bank generates a crap ton of heat so be sure to use gold and put it in a place thats got space and away from anything since power banks can be used as a usefull steamengine

yeah is not working,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509386882
im pretty sure before the last patch it would work like that

[Trigger Zero]

your batteries all loose charge per cycle, I believe it's 10%. ultimately having more batteries is actually a resource loss/drain. You don't want extra! just 1 smart battery to your gens, or determined by systems if you want things functioning on seperate or automated circuits. I'll fire up my game and show how my oxy/gen layout is setup.

[MaebeKnot]

You shouldn't have batteries down stream from a transistor. Also Smart Batteries lose power at a slower rate then dumb batteries. Ditch the dumb batteries when you get smart to avoid as much wasted power.

[Trigger Zero]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509851852
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509852050

Literally just slap a smartbattery down attached to the gen both with power and an automation straight from one to the other. Once battery fills it will tell gen to turn off. Once battery is empty it will tell gen to turn on. That simple :)

Another example (on the gas gens):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509855588
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509855658

Once you get into more automation, you can set systems to signal when the resource of your main system runs out (mine for example is gas). Once this happens, it switches over to my emergency hydrogen backup, until the gas geyser starts up again. When it swaps over to hydrogen it's set to only use power for essential lines. Because my oxygen system produces more hydrogen then it consumes for power it stores up for a long time, so I don't really worry about backup power (which is funny I noticed it says insufficient oxy production... I'm overpressurized so not producing more triggers the message). The idea is to not use more resource than you absolutely have to!