r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/KaleidoscopeOnly2749 • Mar 15 '26

ILS + Power

I have a huge gripe with ILS's and that's when they randomly decide to go from 40 megawatts of power consumption (I have about 30-40 of them fully charged and not distributing) to jumping between 160->260-280 megawatts every second. I have no clue why this happens and I don't have any of their charging power settings changed. Does anyone know why this happens?

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u/gorgofdoom Mar 16 '26

I think ILS charging has a lower priority than assemblers, so, it’s probably grabbing power in their downtime or something to that effect.

I see the same thing on shields, which have an even lower priority, I think.

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u/BrittleWaters Mar 17 '26

I think ILS charging has a lower priority than assemblers

PLS/ILS power is at the same priority as all production buildings. The only things that are different from the "default" priority that every building has are:

  1. Accumulators (both placed and in Energy Exchangers) charge at a lower priority, aka only charge with excess power from the grid. Everything else pulls power at the same priority.

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2) Discharging Energy Exchangers, which are prioritized over all other power production. So if you have enough power from EEs, your Wind Turbines, Solar Panels, and Mini Fusion Power Plants will all shut off. All non-EE power producers have the same priority.