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Added a guide how to skip the smes cells in solars
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===Important Battery Facts=== | ===Important Battery Facts=== | ||
# A battery doesn't charge if the input setting is higher than the actual amount of power being received! | |||
# If the battery charge drops to 0% the battery will stop sending power, even if it is charged again. | |||
A common mistake is to immediately set the input to 90,000 watts (the amount produced by full sunlight) and the output to 80,000 watts. However, this will not work. Solar batteries (SMES cells) start at 20% power but if the engine is off the station drains them to 0% in a few minutes. An input of 90,000 watts (full sun) might charge the battery for a little while, but once the sunlight is blocked by the station the battery charge begins to drain. This causes the battery to turn off and even when the panels receive sunlight again, the battery won't be sending power unless an engineer turns it on again. | A common mistake is to immediately set the input to 90,000 watts (the amount produced by full sunlight) and the output to 80,000 watts. However, this will not work. Solar batteries (SMES cells) start at 20% power but if the engine is off the station drains them to 0% in a few minutes. An input of 90,000 watts (full sun) might charge the battery for a little while, but once the sunlight is blocked by the station the battery charge begins to drain. This causes the battery to turn off and even when the panels receive sunlight again, the battery won't be sending power unless an engineer turns it on again. | ||
==== (Optional) Skipping the SMES Cells ==== | |||
If you don't feel like configuring the SMES cells for over 10 minutes, you can optionally reroute the wiring and skip the whole battery setup! Just recognize two wires: The wire coming from the Solar Control CPU and going to the SMES cell, and the other wire coming from the SMES cell and going to the station power grid. Connect these two wires and voilá! You have skipped the SMES cell and saved yourself a lot of time. No need to turn the SMES on at all, just configure the Solar Control CPU and you're done, time to move to the next solar array! | |||
BUT there is one big downside of this: the station powergrid now holds about 400 kW of power, which is almost enough to put someone into crit. Not a good thing if you have shocked doors or someone exposes those electrified grilles inside windows. | |||
===Ok so what i do?=== | ===Ok so what i do?=== | ||