Factorio - Smart Power Switcher Adds smart power switcher highly configurable. Apart the well known reasons, there is the problem that std (standard template library) and boost headers don't care much about include optimisation, so including single file from these can lead up to hundreds of thousands of lines in the module. This is extremely useful when sharing blueprints, as it's possible for blueprints to be shared albeit with no indication on which items are meant for which belts. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. If the iron plate is more than 50,000, then the plant will stop until the iron plate becomes 25,000 (50,000 - 25,000). - If negative value - turns OFF. I initially set it up as a simple accumulator > power switch check, then watched in horror as it flipped 30 times a second and destroyed my power availability charts. I recently ran into an issue where I needed to add hysteresis behavior to a power switch in my factory so that I could turn off power-heavy parts when the power grid was suffering. Unity build is another thing on my list to try out. A lamp is light depending on the number of goods (in this example empty barrels) in a chest. - Threshold 50,000. Each inserter gets the amount in the chest it is inserting to and adds the negative average, i.e. Power switch remains OFF while the accumulators have more than 30% (I don't want the steam engines coming on at night unless they really need to) 2. When the fast inserter does pick something up its value is added to the output from the previous tick thus incrementing that item. by Nich Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:28 pm, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. ~oP[~z;A?JGB !D1Bl(]`PY(yP^A24H@ C\= Reading the content of the top-right chest and connecting it with the power-switch will let you connect the power to your steam engines when the power in the accumulator drops to 20% and disconnect the switch when the power hit 100%. Inside the desider is an on/off radio toggle. The system can no longer just look at the accumulator and decide if the boilers should be running. Voltage-Mode, Current-Mode (and Hysteretic Control) Factorio: How to Set Steam to Backup Power - Circuit Tutorial thanks for the explanation golfmiketango. Because a continuous supply of nuclear fuel is critical to maintaining a nuclear reactor, the circuit network can be used to set up a system where uranium-235 and uranium-238 are conserved for the production of nuclear fuel before other uses. They put together a similar solution using a diffrent method. They are designed to be as easy to understand as possible. Note: The GUI in the image above has been altered to make sure all important info fits within the image size. Optionally, conect the power switch to the circuit network to automate operations. This is one of the simplest possible use of circuit-network. It's nighttime. Somewhat similar to the previous example, constant combinator signals can be used with belts to help indicate what items should be on which belts. For each chemical plant (or each row of them, if you use rows) add a pump to the non-water fluid input pipe to make it possible to block the flow. - If positive value - turns ON. When there is sufficient nuclear fuel and uranium stockpiled, the inserters will deactivate and the conveyors activate, allowing the uranium to continue down the conveyors to other facilities. Finally the filter stack inserter's mode of operation is set to. This setup compares different fluid levels to each other instead of checking fixed values. by Z903 Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:10 pm, Post If the fast inserter hasn't picked anything up this tick the input to the Arithmetic combinator is the same as and output and hence the values are persisted.