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Understanding electrical stuff...

The_Great_Sephiroth

The_Great_Sephiroth

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I'm curious enough now to start playing with electricity. I thought I'd see how I could modify the battery banks to produce more or less power, but I see a few things that I have questions about.

<property name="InputPerTick" value="5"/> <!-- 5W per tick? -->
<property name="ChargePerInput" value="1"/> <!-- Number oif batteries charged per connected generator/solar bank? -->
<property name="MaxPower" value="400"/> <!-- Not sure how 400 equates to 300W. Help? -->
<property name="OutputPerCharge" value="90"/> <!-- No clue -->
<property name="OutputPerStack" value="50"/> <!-- This I assume is the watts each level 6 battery produces? -->




Can somebody help me understand those settings?

 
Don't have the A21 configs with me at work, but looking at past modification I made to solar panels, "OutputPerStack" is the watts a level 6 item puts out, with the output scaling down for lesser levels (as you correctly assumed).  "MaxPower" is, I'm guessing, setting a limit on what the collected batteries/panels can put out, but if you have 6 slots for up to 50 watts each, you're never going to get more than 300 watts out of it anyway (bump your OutputPerStack to 70, and you'd probably encounter that MaxPower limit, though).

 
Thank you, that is what I was coming to learn, but you confirmed it. This gives us the following so far.

<property name="MaxPower" value="400"/> <!-- Max watts the device can output -->
<property name="OutputPerStack" value="50"/> <!-- Level 6 battery makes this many watts -->




And that leaves us with the following unknowns.

<property name="InputPerTick" value="5"/> <!-- I believe this is how many watts are input from a charger each tick -->
<property name="ChargePerInput" value="1"/> <!-- How many batteries get that charge at one time -->
<property name="OutputPerCharge" value="90"/> <!-- Still no clue -->




I am going to start playing with these and figure the rest out now that I have my feet on the ground and am sure what the first two do. I'll post back once I figure it out.

 
Okay, I only have one more known. The following appears to be how many watts go into charging the batteries.

<property name="InputPerTick" value="5"/>


Adjusting this up or down appears to speed or slow charging batteries in a box. The next item seems to RADICALLY alter charging batteries.

<property name="ChargePerInput" value="1"/>


This I thought would allow it to charge two or more batteries at once. This does not appear to be the case. I ran down six batteries, hooked up a solar bank, and allowed them to charge with this set to 2 instead of 1. All six batteries charged RAPIDLY in front of me. With it set to 1, the last uncharged battery in the box began charging slowly, like normal, but with it on 2, all six charged in under a minute. It makes no sense. Guess I'll wait for somebody with more info to come along. For now, I can increase or decrease charge rates, battery capacity, solar bank and generator bank output, and a few other things.

 
IIRC, batteries only charge in sequence in the vanilla game, not simultaneously, but I am not 100% sure of that.

As for the difference between 1 and 2 on ChargePerInput, did you try any decimal values?

 
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