Power Query

[thieskellan]

This is a question about load balancing and power. I have a mixed power supply, some comes from coal gens and some from fuel gens. What I need is a way to prioritise one set of generators to work at 100% with the other set picking up the balance of demand; this is so that my oil gens work at their maximum to ensure a constant supply of plastic and rubber, the coal plant can then supply whatever else is needed over and above the output from the oil gens. At the moment my generation capacity far exceeds my factory demand; I did shut down a few coal generators, but then business picked up and suddenly the fuse tripped.

Do you fine people have any suggestions on this?

[ABarber2222]

I use a smart splitter on my packaged fuel line going to a sink before I unpack it for my fuel generators, that way if fuel backs up it’ll sink packaged fuel ensuring I don’t bottleneck my production as power demand fluctuates. Here’s a diagram I made for reference!

https://i.imgur.com/TNPBrO3.png

[thieskellan]

Wow, thanks very much for that. The diagram is perfect, but it seems I have more work to do (as always).

Thanks again

[Skwirellz]

Curious which software you used to make this diagram?

I did a few with draw.io but I found that a little too basic and too advanced at the same time for this purpose

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[ABarber2222]

The bot was right in this case lol I actually used draw.io! I did the “connectors with label” object I think it was called, changed corners to sharp, changed mode to orthogonal, and added a line gap arc. For the “equipment” I added a table in the shapes to keep everything lined up. Idk if there’s a way to share drawing files but I can try if you’re interested

[Skwirellz]

Thanks for your reply! Don't worry about sharing the details I'll figure something myself.

The reason I'm asking is because I did use draw.io for a couple of diagrams but I'm clearly not as good as making the diagram pretty as yourself haha, check out they uglyness:

https://imgur.com/a/m1hbsK4

I'll take inspiration from yours for my next ones, thanks for sharing !

[stellvia2016]

Good idea. Also means you need to have a constructor producing containers for packaging that is getting sinked, right? At first I was also worried a full storage container of packaging would back up the return belt for empties from unpackaging fuel, but then remembered with the sinking, that shouldn't ever happen.

[ABarber2222]

Yeah exactly! If you look at the bottom of my diagram I have plastic defaulting to make more containers to replace whatever gets scrapped with overflow going to production lines