Station Battery with Transformers

[AcidTripN]

I built a battery on with a transformer set to 500w on the power production side.

Then tied the battery into the usage side with another transformer trying to limit the output. but I'm not seeing any power coming out. And keeps blowing Small wires between the transformer and the battery on both sides?

What am I missing besides putting big wires on both sides of the battery

[G-Man]

The little cables can handle 5000 W so it sounds like you have a short circuit somewhere. It's hard to diagnose with no picture but make sure the input and output sides for both the battery and the transformer aren't connected anywhere.

Something else that can be a problem sometimes: The transformer takes a bit of power to run itself, like 10 W or something like that. That means if you set it to 5000 W it can actually reach 5010 W on the input end under full draw and burn the cable.

[Alizia Kaline]

You don't need any transformer before the battery, use heavy cable if your production is higher than 5kW. For the output of the battery, you can use a transformer to limit the output to 5kW for simple cable or use heavy too.

Are you sure there is something requiring power after the transformer output ?

[Alizia Kaline]

Originally posted by G-Man:

Something else that can be a problem sometimes: The transformer takes a bit of power to run itself, like 10 W or something like that. That means if you set it to 5000 W it can actually reach 5010 W on the input end under full draw and burn the cable.

No, the transformer don't use any power, you can set it to 5kW without problem.

[Wolfie_]

Originally posted by Alizia Kaline:

No, the transformer don't use any power, you can set it to 5kW without problem.

Unless has recently changed (I'm still on pre-phase change build of the game until finish my current base), would get random quirky over-voltage events (exceed 5kW, blown fuse etc.), unpredictable, could never reliably replicate it. Had come to the conclusion it was likely a rounding issue in the power usage calculation maths somewhere, so every now-n-then it would sum up all devices drawing power on the circuit and arrive at some silly 5.000001kW result, then the game would apply it's if PowerActual > 5kW, then blow up a cable logic.

I've always set my transformer's limit with normal cables on the output to 4990 W, just to provide that little bit of wriggle room.

[[FTFF]BigfootMSR]

Originally posted by Alizia Kaline:

Originally posted by G-Man:

Something else that can be a problem sometimes: The transformer takes a bit of power to run itself, like 10 W or something like that. That means if you set it to 5000 W it can actually reach 5010 W on the input end under full draw and burn the cable.

No, the transformer don't use any power, you can set it to 5kW without problem.

The transformer itself uses 10w so setting it to max without taking that into account will cause over voltage and blown wires.