A while ago SMES cells behaved like so:
When the SMES power os fully drained, the output switches to OFF.
Currently, the output will remain set to on no matter what, this makes solars a lot less interesting, back then, if you didn't let the SMES "charge up" for a bit, the power drop that solars experience when they don't have a line of sight with the sun could drain them completely and switch the output to OFF, which, if unchecked could trigger a cascading power failure in the station. (One solar array losing power means all the others had to give more power which could end up tripping them too and/or lead to APCs failing to charge properly).
I believe this behavior should be brought back because it made setting up reasonable SMES input/outputs more dependent on the type of power supply (strength, peak power, possible fluctuations).
Bring back the old SMES behavior.
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Re: Bring back the old SMES behavior.
You mean people don't just wire the solars straight to the grid?
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Re: Bring back the old SMES behavior.
How does that has to do anything with my suggestion? The solar array case was just an example.
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Re: Bring back the old SMES behavior.
Someone on Sybil has been not only using the SMES, but somehow managing to wire the SMES to itself so it uses its own output to charge.Saegrimr wrote:You mean people don't just wire the solars straight to the grid?
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Re: Bring back the old SMES behavior.
...Lazengann wrote:but somehow managing to wire the SMES to itself so it uses its own output to charge.
what
tedward1337 wrote:Sae is like the racist grandad who everyone laughs at for being racist, but deep down we all know he's right.
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Re: Bring back the old SMES behavior.
Whoever it is leaves the charge and the output at 50k while wired to itself so the net output is exactly 0
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