Power

[Vcoke27]

Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong? Everything was working fine until I built the battery. Now nothing is powered.

[Denim Chicken]

Hard to say without seeing what your setup looks like. Are you talking APC or station battery? Both have an input and output. A power generating device needs to be on the input to charge the battery (generator, solar panel, wind turbine). Everything you want powered should be on the output side. APC needs a battery added and the switch turned on. Station batteries just have a switch.

[mb08]

When even your battery is not powered - did you switch it on ? There is a switch at the side of the battery. When turned off, the battery will not receive input and - if charged - you will not get any power out of it. Are the input and output lines used correctly ? If you change it the battery will not charge. When using small cables - are they burned ? The batteries will charge with maximum. When you just use small cables they can burn up as long as the power source produces more than 5 kW. So use transformers or use heavy cables.

[JeanDeaux]

What has likely happened is that you already had one battery installed somewhere (to include a battery in an APC unit) and you added a battery down-line of that battery that already had some kind of charge built up already. When you added a new battery, then the charge in that previous battery tried to charge your new battery. The problem here is that the charge will attempt to move from the previous battery all at once which is more than your power cables can handle. If you follow all your electrical cables, you will likely find at least one cable section burned out.

What mb08 was suggesting above, is to prevent all the power from transferring all at once you need to install a Transformer somewhere between the two batteries to limit the flow of that power to keep it within the power capability range of your cable. So if you have the standard power cable (without the swirl), then you need to limit the power flow to 5 kW to protect your cables.

[Vcoke27]

Thank guys! I'm going to look into this.

[WussyBoy]

If you connected a solid fuel generator to a station battery using standard cables, the cable will blow if you start the generator.

Is that the case? If so, check for blown cables. You’ll have to use the heavy cable to connect the generator to a station battery.

If not, it’s potentially what the other have suggested. The station battery will suck all the power from the APC.

Other possible explanations are that your battery isn’t turned on, your connections to the input and output are reversed, or you are using the data jack instead of the power jack.

[Fleischpeitscher]

You have to make sure that the power generators and the output of the battery don´t have the same cable. That would cause a shortcut.
The generators have to be connected to the input of the battery.
The power consumers have to be connected to the output of the battery.