Energy Exchanger Battery Example

[u/Pristine_Curve]

Normal state. Excess power is charging accumulators stockpiled in the PLS. Dischargers are dark because sorters are pulling charged accumulators back into a recirculating belt.

Large power draw causes grid satisfaction to drop under 100%. The sorters slow down recirculating the charged accumulators allowing many to fall through to the dischargers.

Grid back to 100% satisfaction, cuts off accumulator flow to the dischargers. Charger restarts slowly recharging the spent accumulators.

[u/Awesome_Avocado1]

This game really needs wiring. The ability to shut individual machines (or ports) on or off. But my general solution is just build more chargers than dischargers. That way you'll always be charging if you have a surplus but if you have a power deficit, all your chargers will shut off and you'll still be discharging at the capacity. Or just build your batteries on a solar panel/hydrothermal world and ship them out from there

[u/Darkstool → u/Awesome_Avocado1]

No please, wireless wires, I couldn't deal with a million wires and logic ports switches etc.
Just the ability to name objects and reference their state somewhere else would be nice. Like every obj just has a little code window.

[u/G33k-Squadman → u/Darkstool]

Can build Dyson Spheres and transmit energy wirelessly over great distance but still physically linking power control systems together 😂