Powerplants needs extensions for transformer stations.

[Angelhearth]

I have a geothermal Powerplant that can't transfere all it's power out on the local grid. I can extend it with another Turbine and another High Voltage Substations, but they are both to transfere high voltage, I need low voltage. To get that I have to build a Transformer station and connect it to the powerplant. Wouldn't it be much more logical that the powerplant I aldready have could add enough Transformer Stations to be able to output everything it can produce?

[Verios44]

How the game has it is sorta like reality. Power plants do not directly provide power to clients. Its stepped down first via transformers and other means.

Also at least the coal plant has a low voltage connection on the building, so id suspect the geotherm does too.

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by Verios44:

How the game has it is sorta like reality. Power plants do not directly provide power to clients. Its stepped down first via transformers and other means.

Also at least the coal plant has a low voltage connection on the building, so id suspect the geotherm does too.

ONE! That's not even close to enough, if you place it correctly.

And reality doesn't seem to bother CO very much.

[Helen Carnate]

Place it on the road and connect the road. There. You have a low voltage connection.

[Verios44]

Originally posted by Helen Carnate:

Place it on the road and connect the road. There. You have a low voltage connection.

Keep in mind that you will still need to move the power to other areas of the city. For example power and water lines are not auto generated under highways.

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by Helen Carnate:

Place it on the road and connect the road. There. You have a low voltage connection.

Only until it's not enough with INE connections, which is what I'm talking about here!!!!!

[Apples]

It's better as it is in all honesty. just use more transformer stations, the power lines can go underground, so it's not really an issue.

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by Apples:

It's better as it is in all honesty. just use more transformer stations, the power lines can go underground, so it's not really an issue.

No, but I have invested a large area to that powerplant, and with some minor modifications, and with all added extras already available, it could easily fit 2 transformer stations, easily. That's what bothers me.

[Apples]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

Originally posted by Apples:

It's better as it is in all honesty. just use more transformer stations, the power lines can go underground, so it's not really an issue.

No, but I have invested a large area to that powerplant, and with some minor modifications, and with all added extras already available, it could easily fit 2 transformer stations, easily. That's what bothers me.

But roads can only handle so much power draw, so even if you could plant all the transformers around your plant, they are still using the same road, and the road won't handle it.

The whole idea is once the roads can no longer the load being pulled from the transformer, you build another transformer elsewhere, to help evenly distribute the electricity load.

This is explained in the tutorial.

And since the high voltage power lines can go underground it's no biggie trying to get the powerlines to them.

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by Apples:

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

No, but I have invested a large area to that powerplant, and with some minor modifications, and with all added extras already available, it could easily fit 2 transformer stations, easily. That's what bothers me.

But roads can only handle so much power draw, so even if you could plant all the transformers around your plant, they are still using the same road, and the road won't handle it.

The whole idea is once the roads can no longer the load being pulled from the transformer, you build another transformer elsewhere, to help evenly distribute the electricity load.

This is explained in the tutorial.

And since the high voltage power lines can go underground it's no biggie trying to get the powerlines to them.

I don't know how you set up your powerplants, but mine have ropads all aåround them, and connection roads to the again.

Looking at it now, it has all 4 sides covered, and 12 connectin roads to that square. So I could easily connect 12 low voltage transformers.

[BadassRockett]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

Originally posted by Apples:

But roads can only handle so much power draw, so even if you could plant all the transformers around your plant, they are still using the same road, and the road won't handle it.

The whole idea is once the roads can no longer the load being pulled from the transformer, you build another transformer elsewhere, to help evenly distribute the electricity load.

This is explained in the tutorial.

And since the high voltage power lines can go underground it's no biggie trying to get the powerlines to them.

I don't know how you set up your powerplants, but mine have ropads all aåround them, and connection roads to the again.

Looking at it now, it has all 4 sides covered, and 12 connectin roads to that square. So I could easily connect 12 low voltage transformers.

But that is not relevant, a road can only carry 80MW of power (from memory) so you will then reach the roads capacity. This is why you have to have substations scattered about to distribute the load to different areas of the city to prevent a bottleneck

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by BadassRockett:

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

I don't know how you set up your powerplants, but mine have ropads all aåround them, and connection roads to the again.

Looking at it now, it has all 4 sides covered, and 12 connectin roads to that square. So I could easily connect 12 low voltage transformers.

But that is not relevant, a road can only carry 80MW of power (from memory) so you will then reach the roads capacity. This is why you have to have substations scattered about to distribute the load to different areas of the city to prevent a bottleneck

ONE road has the capacity of 80MW, but I have 12, TWELVE, that can each carry 80MW!

[BadassRockett]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

Originally posted by BadassRockett:

But that is not relevant, a road can only carry 80MW of power (from memory) so you will then reach the roads capacity. This is why you have to have substations scattered about to distribute the load to different areas of the city to prevent a bottleneck

ONE road has the capacity of 80MW, but I have 12, TWELVE, that can each carry 80MW!

Do you have a screenshot of it?

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by BadassRockett:

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

ONE road has the capacity of 80MW, but I have 12, TWELVE, that can each carry 80MW!

Do you have a screenshot of it?

For the love of God!

The powerplant has a road going around it, in a square. Out from that road there are 12 other roads going to other roads. Is that so very difficult to understand?

[BadassRockett]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

Originally posted by BadassRockett:

Do you have a screenshot of it?

For the love of God!

The powerplant has a road going around it, in a square. Out from that road there are 12 other roads going to other roads. Is that so very difficult to understand?

Well I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt in case I was misunderstanding but I guess I am not.

It sounds like the road around the building that connects to the power plant has the capacity of 80 MW and then the 12 roads which connect to them can each carry 80 MW. But what you are not accounting for is that the 12 roads can only share the initial 80 MW from the road connected to the power plant.

This is why you need to use substations so that you can use the high voltage lines to carry more power to different areas and then from those take the smaller cables carrying 80 MW to smaller sections of the city

If you want to have an attitude you'll find no one wants to help you and it'll just be another thread on the forums to ignore as it turns into drivel

[Apples]

That one road around your powerplant still has an 80MW capacity(i have no clue, just what he says), so you could have 20 different roads connected to it or 1, it's still 80MW going out.

But lets say that worked, you were providing each of these 12 roads with 80mw of power, and they were evenly spread, what happens when one of those roads reach their limit, what would you do? zigzag one or two of your other "distribution roads" across to compensate? or just add more "distribution roads"?

Having 12 different roads from your power plant evenly going to different parts of your city to provide power sounds like something you'd see out of tron, like trying to solve a traffic problem by adding more roads.


It just seems like you're making a mountain out of a molehill.