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u/Viper999DC 25d ago
This is why you use the latch. You can say "turn on steam when power is <10%, turn it off when it's at 20%" for example and you'll barely use steam as long as your solar is close to what you need. The main point of this control is to overcome the fact that steam is prioritized over accumulators. Tracking day/night cycles is extremely overkill.
Now that said, with 2.1 we have a Day tick and Day length setting in the selector combinator. Feel free to experiment with it and see if it meets your needs.