electric and water balance issue

[Gamer2456]

It seems the water tank and the way you have to do electricity in this game are just so unbalanced.

You need more than one water tank just to supply a signal-grown bed and planter and you have daisy-changing electricity just to power a single structure with two things in it. I had four solar panels and could barely power by start base and one water tank was useless in the beginning.

[SAS-Vet]

Are you just using Solar Panels to supply power to the building????

[juskom95]

Seperate grids help, plus once you get the Med panel and the expansion unit for your power transformer it gets easier.

I usually have a setup where I have a grid for my base, grid for my H20 (sometimes a grid for dedicated O2) and a grid for the rock crusher.

This also means that in the event of a diasaster, I can jury-rig structures together.

[Gamer2456]

Yes but even with 4 hook up to a transformer , battery into another transformer it still not enough power.

[SAS-Vet]

Ok ... this system has worked fine for me It has given me more than enough power for everything when I started.
4 solar Panels, (I used Medium solar panels) each attached to a battery (1 battery for each solar panel) then, the 4 batteries connected to a Transformer..... and then from the Transformer to the Building.
Each Medium solar panel gives +/- 30 kWh, enough to charge the battery during the day, and each battery should be fully charged with about 240/260 kWh.
Set the Battery for an output of 10 kWh x 4 will give you 40 kWh input to the Transformer... if your building only requires e.g. 15 kWh to run then you can set your Transformer output to 20 kWh just to give you a plus margin. The setting are just examples, you will have to fiddle with them till you get what you require without the batteries running out.
I hope this helps.

[QWARZ]

Originally posted by Gamer2456:

Yes but even with 4 hook up to a transformer , battery into another transformer it still not enough power.

Can you post the diagram in more detail? maybe you made a mistake in it, here you need to keep your eyes open with transformers, they have a hidden mechanism for energy leakage, and this leakage can reach gigantic values

[QWARZ]

Originally posted by SAS-Vet:

Ok ... this system has worked fine for me It has given me more than enough power for everything when I started.
4 solar Panels, (I used Medium solar panels) each attached to a battery (1 battery for each solar panel) then, the 4 batteries connected to a Transformer..... and then from the Transformer to the Building.
Each Medium solar panel gives +/- 30 kWh, enough to charge the battery during the day, and each battery should be fully charged with about 240/260 kWh.
Set the Battery for an output of 10 kWh x 4 will give you 40 kWh input to the Transformer... if your building only requires e.g. 15 kWh to run then you can set your Transformer output to 20 kWh just to give you a plus margin. The setting are just examples, you will have to fiddle with them till you get what you require without the batteries running out.
I hope this helps.

this is not a very good way to connect energy to the building, it is much more efficient to connect 4 batteries in series, all 4 solar panels to the first through a transformer, power the building from the last one (necessarily without using a transformer), set the output power value to the maximum on all batteries, this is subject to that you do not have an open battery upgrade, if the upgrade is pumped, just put 1 battery and, if possible, 5 upgrades to it

at first glance it may seem that the difference in these methods is not great, but it only seems so, the fact is that the game has a hidden (not advertised) combustion of energy in the transformer, my method allows you to avoid such combustion and use all the collected energy for the base without losses