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The original was the only miner supplying coal to my generators and had been doing so for maybe 10-20 rl hours without a hitch. My power grid has been happily percolating along at around 330kw for all that time.
One coal powerplant running at approximately 50% (330 kw used out of 600 kw) consume about 7.5 coal per minute. Time that by 8 is roughly 60 coal per minute.
A miner mk 1 actual yield depends on the purity of the deposit. Mk 1 miner on an impure coal deposit will only give 30 coal per minute. Mk1 on normal will give you 60 coal per minute. Mk 1 on pure deposit will give you 120 coal per minute.
Since changing to mk 2 miner fixed the issue. I think it is likely that your coal deposit was impure and was insufficient to supply more power spike above 300 kw long-term.
Unless you encountered a bug (which you did absolutely nothing to identify and have provided no useful evidence at all to replicate from the devs perspective), I think it's safe to say that it was not connected to a power supply.
It happens. I eventually went back to my Fuel Generators to figure out why the hell the power kept dropping, only to discover I'd accidentally removed a power pole to one of my two Oil Extractors.
The last time I checked before this issue the coal was actually fully backed up to the miner and shuffling along as needed. When I got there this time the coal was basically non-existent.
The reason I went was because I knew at 330KW I was right on the limit (slightly over) of keeping a steady supply of coal to the generators and it was time to upgrade the miner. I expected to see some gaps in the coal supply line. What I didn't expect was the miner to not be producing.
:)) No. It just wasn't producing. It was connected to power confirmed by me following the line and the light on the miner being yellow. It wasn't green because it wasn't producing it was just sitting there doing nothing.
I already covered that and you were adamant it was. That's not what I said.
You turned the miner off with the on/off switch. That is the only way you end up with a miner with power connected but a yellow 'standby' light showing.
I was initially shocked that the miner was sitting there doing nothing. Then I went into connect the other node to the belt mode and then I went and checked and rechecked power etc. The second miner I connected to power using the same power pole as the original one and it wasn't until the second miner was up and running that I disconnected the power line from the original.
Not true. When a miner stops producing ore because it has 100 stored in it the light turns yellow. I have stood and watched that happen. Plus the light was yellow as I walked up to the miner which was before I pressed "E" to see what was happening. Also when I arrived there was still the odd coal or five coming down the belt but not the steady flow I expected. By the time I got halfway to the miner the belts were empty of coal.
The generators are about 200m from the miner and you have to walk past the generators to get to the miner. So I couldn't have turned off the miner while at the generators.
What is more likely here?
Option one:
You've encounter a bug.
One that just so happened to occur when you have openly admitted you were fiddling with the system to upgrade it? A bug that you also have basically no information on, didn't test and have given people next to nothing to replicate.
OR
Option two:
You accidentally disconnected the power to the miner/turned it off manually when you were fiddling with it.
Honestly, there is nothing more to discuss here. My monies on the latter, you broke the system by accident. It is the infinitely more likely option and we have nothing to go off to prove the former.
Yes I admitted that I went there to upgrade the system. I never openly admitted to fiddling with the system when this happened. That is something else you have assumed.
Honestly you don't read what I write or if you do you just discount it or you just don't understand it. I'm not sure what part of the light was on and the power was connected you don't understand. I'm not sure what part of there was no coal on the belts as I walked the approx 200m from the generators to the miner you don't understand. I'm not sure how you think I turned it off or to standby from 200m away.
You're right though I have no information on the (maybe) bug. I pressed "E" on the miner and it wasn't producing coal. There was just the window without a "No Power" message or any other message in my face. It was just the window with no coal being produced.
I provided information in my posts about the entire set up of the system from node quality to miner to generators to belts and to average power output. Also information that the system had been running smoothly for 10-20 rl hours and was still outputting the required 330KW even as the coal reserves in the generators were dwindling. I even gave a description of what I saw as I walked from the generators to the miner. I also gave the information that I have to walk past the generators to get to the miner so it is impossible for me to turn the miner off while at the generators. But you're right I gave "basically no information". I'm a bad boy and I am only doing this to get attention.
Thank you for giving me the attention I was craving when I made this post.
For others who replied with suggestions thank you.
Replacing the miner solved whatever the issue was and as I've said it is happily producing coal and feeding a second set of 8 coal generators.
So on that note I bid you all and this thread farewell.
Nobody offered you any other suggestions because there aren't any.
Replacing the miner didn't 'fix' a bug, it replaced a miner that was off with a miner that was on. The more you fight against this, the more its obvious this is the answer.
There was no bug.
And yes, you have given no information. What does any of that 'background' you gave do for helping to replicate it? I'll tell you: Nothing.