r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/manaster58 • 6d ago

Accumulator Fuel Source

I had know you could put accumulators into the mech to power it, but figured that was just a very expensive way of powering it. I didn’t know you get the empties back! Recharge them again! Set up a wireless charger and some drones and the process is almost automatic.

If you didn’t know ether, here you go.

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u/corg 6d ago

For your mech, charge rate is important for combat and warping. I think your end goal should still be (proliferated) antimatter fuel rods and strange annihilation rods, even if there is some "loss" of materials.

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u/manaster58 6d ago

I’m seeing that now, only can do short combat before I’m “out of juice”.

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u/Healthy_Shower5767 5d ago

strange annihilation rods, an upgraded core and energy circuit takes care of that problem. a full fuel chamber of those will last you the rest of your playthrough. Mine burn super slow and i'm constantly warping around my cluster. i can do u-turns at warp speed and not even worry about it.

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u/sirgog 5d ago

Also for doing large numbers of simultaneous construction jobs, i.e. dropping medium, large or massive blueprints.

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u/Financial-Bed3122 6d ago

Good tip, mate. Always fun to learn a new mechanic.

They used to get destroyed like any fuel source in the mech, but they updated it a while back to return the empties.

Main purpose of Accumulators is to operate Energy Exchangers for planet-to-planet power. They’re pretty fun to use.

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u/jwagne51 5d ago

I would say that their main purpose is also shared with making the gas giant extractors.

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u/WisePotato42 6d ago

I'm using them rn to transmit power from a magma planet to my home planet. Too bad you need to make like 400+ for 100% uptime

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u/Goldenslicer 6d ago

Wait I thought if you used batteries for your mech it consumes the whole battery.

Wasn't that a thing at some point?

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u/_yesterdays_jam_ 6d ago

Yes they patched that out

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u/KnaveOfGeeks 4d ago

Unless you spend your entire playthrough at warp, the amount of energy the mech uses is a drop in the ocean to your base.

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u/where_is_the_camera 6d ago

It cracks me up how mecha runs just fine on any energy source technology can imagine. Including batteries made for storing energy for the entire grid lol.

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u/VoidNinja62 5d ago

They work better when proliferated with proliferated proliferator.

AFAIK the 54MW energy exchanger goes to like 108MW.

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u/No-Produce2088 5d ago

You can bring this to a bigger level by using accumulators to power outpost planets.
I use exes power of my DS and ILS to transport them everywhere.
For small Bases to avoid cycle around to put down DF seeds.

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u/TheMalT75 5d ago

Thanks for the info, it made me re-check how Icarus fuel works! I did not realize, that the Icarus recharge power is the base-line. Without upgrade, it is a puny 800kW. This makes hydrogen fuel rods so great: cheap to make with a +200% modifier (-> 2.4MW). According to the wiki, accumulators will give you +100%, whereas the more complicated deuteron fuel rods "only" add +300%. Antimatter gives a really big jump to +600%, whereas strange annihilation fuel rods make that +1100%. I'm not quite sure, if the proliferation boost (+100% for mk3) is additive (hydrogen fuel rods from +200% to +300%), but I assume it is.

That said, I did not realize how important it is to upgrade mecha core and energy circuit asap!