Stationeers - Power Distribution Example
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This is a short example of power distribution device setup in Stationeers. I've added effects to help visualize the network. This is laid outside for the example, it is recommended to contain your battery room in a temperature controlled environment.
Stationeers is not a casual game, and so when setting up systems like this, it can be very helpful to add a degree of redundancy such as fuses on these long cable runs just after they leave their transformer. This can ensure that any human errors in the future which may result in blown wires will not occur on some run hidden behind a panel or built through a solid frame, but here at the primary distribution point only.
This layout is just an example - as applied to a working distribution center in my Mars playthrough, it looks like this:
imgur.com/a/st...
Thanks for watching! I was hoping to get into making more regular Stationeers videos, but life has been crazy - figured I'd go ahead and release this clip that's been sitting in my renders folder for nearly a year unused. I'll incorporate it into a proper gaming video one day where I can explain how it applies to a proper setup in a working system.
See ya next time!
Music:
Odyssey (High Quality) - Kevin MacLeod
Showing this like you did really is awesome and makes it easier to understand. Kudos!
Wow! This is great. You should do more blueprints like this of entire base. It would help people like me that have problem designing base layouts.
Now I know where I need to get my regular big batteries after upgrading power room with large ones. thanks!
Great Video. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!
great video! Saving it for future reference
I really like that in-base distribution system. Great video!
What do you think about using substations? I'm thinking of a system that can charge a battery and switch the circuit if the potential from the main battery banks drop too low or are cut off for some reason.
Redundancy is very wise and that's a neat idea, but personally, I run it top-down: My main battery room already has a means to ensure the large station battery array can supply each area battery as needed, and in my actual buildings, the power wall is set up such that the Lights network has a small battery in the APC. If power is lost, the lights go out, but all the other APC's on the power wall have nuclear batteries (which nearly have the capacity of an area battery itself) - my world is single player/offline. If I was playing online, I would definitely consider an even more robust battery backup system. I'm up to 30 large station batteries in my distribution center, and my solar array brings in over 60kW.
nice AF presentation, what program did you use for the animation/editing?
Thanks! I used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere.
I actually made a short little timelapse of some of the work I did in AE -- was a fun first project, learned a lot, but was a lot of work (mostly time consuming, to get everything just right). Here's a link: czcams.com/video/LkR514sBdRk/video.html
Nice setup.
My two cents, lose the large transformer and apc's. You don't need them.
A small transformer and apc combo is good to have in the airlock. As power backup.
Also, the small transformers limit the power on the base cable, so no fuse is necessary.
After all this, great advice. 👍
Large Transformers are required after the Large Area Batteries to step down the unregulated output for further use within the limitations of a heavy cable. To saturate that heavy cable after the Large Area Batteries, you will want to use two Large Transformers. These themselves consume 10W, and so you'll want to set each of their dials (at least) 10W lower than max - with two in such fashion, you will have a main heavy power line at max power.
APCs function as an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the power line they serve. For example, a nuclear battery in an APC has nearly as much capacity as a Small Area Battery. If all your APCs have nuclear batteries, and you put a Small Battery in the APC of the network which all ceiling lights are powered by, and you have a power outage event, all your machines and devices and airlocks will continue to function while the lights-out signals very clearly a power issue that you now have time to troubleshoot and restore.
Redundant fuses are a measure of safety and security, and not a means to control or account for the power coming out of their own transformer, but for other considerations down the road. As bases are built larger, and when some cable runs travel behind panels or through solid frames, and especially in multiplayer servers, redundant fuses can ensure that even human error such as crossing two cables accidentally when both have high draw devices resulting in a cable blow out will only occur at the primary distribution point, and not somewhere potentially hidden to hunt down.
This layout is just an example - here's a few screenshots of this concept implemented into a working power station & distribution center in my Mars playthrough:
imgur.com/a/B79Iegh
Great tutorial, now take my upvote. One question though. You don't have a Data cable going to the third area battery. Is it because it is not needed or just 'oops, I forgot' thing? On a side note, I like to work backwards on the power distribution layout. For example, if I have ten airlocks, I calculate how much power I would need to run them AND how to run the cables. If I have five airlocks on one side of the base and the others on other side. Would it be better to run power across the base to for ten airlocks or split the system into two distribution lines and feed five at a time?
Any cows, great vid. Keep em coming.
The example layout in this video was indeed rudimentary, and simply to show what is possible, and I didn't want to have confusing crossover of wires just to reach the third station batter. In my actual power station / battery room, every station battery (both sizes) are on the data network, including each analyzer which comes after their respective (medium) transformer. This allows me to have displays for each area for a Maximum Watts and Current Watts -- then a min/max/average display combining all that data. Here's some screenshots on the Stationeers Discord - (assuming YT will allow these links):
discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/277623217701781505/1145113829299191908
discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/277623217701781505/1144902240092573747
discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/277623217701781505/1145189099762897008
@@SemlerPDX Fully understand. Your design looks really good. Every time I see your base, it makes me want to delete my saved file. 😃
Great video! What's the code you're using to control the back up generator and power levels?
This was more of an example layout, and is not my actual setup, though I have modified my own for an example that would function for the layout shown in this video. It includes comments to help new folks understand the basics of what it does, and how it can be altered as desired. Here's a link to it on my pastebin: pastebin.com/phFcJPQL
@@SemlerPDX Thanks man I really appreciate that!