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Feralliekos

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Would love to see a way the generators and solar banks can be connected together.. IE stuff runs off solar during the day and generators kick on at night.. unfortunately unless im doing it wrong.. it seems you cant even connect the 2 together as to shut off the gen during the day to just run off solar... So far loving the updates in 21 and excited to see what else comes!

 
Been ages since I messed around with that issue, I don't think there's a good solution.

Solar => battery bank works for "whole day solar energy", but fuel gennies you need to manually hook up daily to take over for solar..

 
Yup, Solar Bank => Battery Bank => equipment

The charging of the Battery Bank takes 5 watts and turns off the output from the batteries, so your equipment "conventionally" needs to be 5w below what the solar will produce.

Then again, the daily recharge for the batteries doesn't take much time, an hour or two game time. So you can also set up a

Solar bank => Timer (for a suitable 2h period) => Battery bank,

and charge the batteries in the morning/evening while having your electronics suffer power loss for the duration.

 
Solar plus battery bank gets you power all day and night.  No need for generators unless you need more power than you have solar banks and cells for.

 
FYI, one generator can also be used to power up multiple battery banks.  I used that before when I didn't have solar panels but plenty of batteries and banks.  Fuel consumption is very low since you only need one motor.  Only downside is having to constantly switch out full batteries for the dead batteries.

 
Would be nice if circuits would just work like logical or gates. The circuit is powered if any connected power provider delivers it power.

That would also allow for redundant sensors enabling traps and redundantly powered traps.

Would also make automated airlocks for entry and exit on a vehicle way less awkward.

A relais (configurable to open or close on signal) would also be nice. Then we could build any other logic circuit no matter how complex ourselves...

 
Abusimplea said:
Would be nice if circuits would just work like logical or gates. The circuit is powered if any connected power provider delivers it power.

That would also allow for redundant sensors enabling traps and redundantly powered traps.

Would also make automated airlocks for entry and exit on a vehicle way less awkward.

A relais (configurable to open or close on signal) would also be nice. Then we could build any other logic circuit no matter how complex ourselves...
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Some of us have been asking for all of the logic gates for quite a while now.  😀

 
Riamus said:
Some of us have been asking for all of the logic gates for quite a while now.  😀
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We don't need all of them. We just need anything that can do negation and anything that can do "and" or "or" - might even do one negation and one "and" or "or" at the same time. Then we can build any other logic gate or even entire computers from that.

Obviously, that would absolutely kill servers if unrestricted. So there probably would be a configurable chain limit after which power propagation would just stop. And it would likely not update every frame.

But it would be great to be able to at least build some smaller circuits instead of just chaining switches, sensors and actors.

 
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