Heavy-Watt Joint Plate has a limit of 1000W

[Suslik]

According to its description one might expect it to have the same the same wattage as Heave-Watt wire (20kW), but in fact it breaks when it reaches 1000W which makes it completely useless because the most basic wire is cheaper, does not have as many downsides (run speed, decor) and carries exactly the same wattage.

I think the wattage on the join plate is supposed to be 20kW as well.

[Huyen]

Yup, having the same issues here. The plate crossing the walls / doors should have the same 20kw as the wire does. As it is now, its not usefull to implement it at all.

[cswiger]

You need to use a wire bridge to jump over the Heavi-watt Join Plate. If you have a wire or conductive wire cross through without using a bridge, it becomes part of the high-power side and breaks.

[Huyen]

Originally posted by cswiger:

You need to use a wire bridge to jump over the Heavi-watt Join Plate. If you have a wire or conductive wire cross through without using a bridge, it becomes part of the high-power side and breaks.

The joint plate is breaking when it hits more then 1000 wats, while the wire connected (it says heavy joint plate) is 20kw max. So in my opinion its a bug. This is without any other wiring connected. Works fine in the base-game tho.

[cswiger]

Deconstruct the Heavi-watt Join Plate, and see whether there was a segment of normal wire hiding behind it.

[Suslik]

@cswiger it was a really long time ago, but I vaguely remember it was something like that. there was somehow a single point of a normal wire hiding under the heavi-watt joint plate that somehow overloaded.

[cswiger]

Exactly! The Join Plate acts like a tile, so it replaces an existing tile but doesn't change any wires which were there. So they break.

[Gorlos]

Does Inserting batteries to both sides of the bridge fix it?

[John Hadley]

Inserting additional batteries or moving batteries from one point in the circuit to another cannot fix a circuit overload issue.

The amount of flow through a wire is everything connected to a power consumer anywhere the circuit of connected wires and wire bridges that wire is connected to. Don't think of it like electricity in real life because it doesn't work that way. The wire can burn anywhere in the circuit if any one of those wire segments cannot sustain the total power consumed by all devices currently running connected to anywhere on the circuit.

This is an old thread. The heavi watt joint plate can sustain 20kW of power, but the original poster had a regular piece of wire not a heavi-watt wire connected to the joint plate that could not and that regular piece of wire was being damaged, not the joint plate itself. The joint plate and the wire are in the same square so its easy to see the ! and not realize. You need the wire as well as the joint plate for the power to flow to the device so once the wire burnt in his circuit the original posters device could not work anymore. Duplicants would automatically repair it possibly before he could even realize that its the wire not the joint that had been damaged.