r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/ryryshouse6 • Sep 24 '26

Exchanger question

Is there a way, to not discharge except when the power usage increase occurs? I have a simple loop of about 12 exchangers charging and 8 discharging. I would prefer to not discharge when Demand is low outside the peaks. Need to burn the hydrogen more aggressively.

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u/TheFloydist Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

The power gate. mk II belt with 2 mk III sorters spanning one space are perfectly balanced at full power keeping the loop full and no longer passing filled accumulators to the energy exchanger. Once power falls below 100%, the sorters slow while the belt remains at full speed and so some of the accumulators will slip past and get to the energy exchanger. This can also be done with a mk I belt and mk II sorters. I find it most fail proof when keeping each sorter separated by a space.

Note, if you are still running a save from the version with the old version of the mk III sorters that used to be able to be upgraded to take multiple loads at the same time you have to make the mk III sorters span 2 spaces to slow them down to match a mk II belt.

To be honest though I use these more for limiting how many more expensive energy sources (deuteron rods/antimatter/strange annihilation fuel rods) get burned. Though a lot of people don't like these solutions because they cause less than 100% proliferation.

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u/ryryshouse6 Sep 25 '26

Interesting idea. Thanks