[2021] Electricity Question

Originally posted by Borfoid: The electricity system is a bit crazy, it works nothing like a house even though the wiring and the i/o system is fairly analogous.

You should be able to hook up the total input to a single relay and then output all that power to the rest of the base imo.

As it stands, you have to split things up in to different systems. You should be able to do that but it shouldn't be mandatory.

It works nothing like existing modern day A/C houses, no. It works very much like old D/C houses from hundreds of years ago, because it is. This is what electrical power used to be like- D/C power is uni directional. Input at one end, outputs at the various branches, and all of it gets consumed in some way shape or form- Either to make something work, or creating heat. It does not double back, and attempting to make it do so will create a short and a massive amount of heat.

And it's like this for a reason- This is the apocalypse. We have no way of regulating A/C power as a guy/gal with a generator that basically runs at one single output value and some wires we scavenged from a store. We're not electricians, And we don't have power plants making massive amounts of power that must be regulated lest it wreak havoc. And we're basically back in the comparative stone age in many regards. D/C power is about the best most people would be able to come up with in those circumstances.


In answer to the OP's question, as mentioned, you unfortunately can't. The electrical system is Single Input->Multiple Output. One power producing object per network and all wires must run out from it- You can connect a battery bank as a backup, but it will only function when the generator is off or has run out of gas; It will not raise the total wattage on the line. Your only option is to split your load up across multiple wire networks.