Battery 'smart loop'

One smart battery to control all the jumbos

Easy to do

The smart battery will uncharge after the jumbos are empty and will charge after they are full.

Simply put a smart battery between 2 transformers and link all the batteries in a loop as the image below.

One automation wire from the smart battery to power generators.

Have fun

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@prince.mandor just dont use it then

[prince.mandor]

if your base consumes X watts, generators produce X watts they don't work more or less, they may work continuously and then stay disabled, or they turn on/off every couple of seconds, but they work same time. So, no heat economy here.
Adding smart battery remove need to store power -- you store coal instead, spending it only as needed. Jumbos just waste power and generate heat themselves. BTW, 20 jumbo batteries waste charge of one full battery per cycle, so, it is significant loss

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@otter Whatever

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For something like this it is generally more efficient to just use 1 smart battery, since there's not really any point in storing any more than that...

Either your power plants produce an excess, in which case a single battery is enough to catch that excess and turn them off when almost full and back on when empty....

Or your power plants don't produce enough, in which case batteries cannot help.

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@prince.mandor
The jumbo store more power and dont need refined metal. I dont loose that much power, it is drained every few minutes. Also having generator only working once in a while reduce heat

[prince.mandor]

But why do you need jumbo batteries in this setup? Removing all of them give same effect and lot of power economy