- Please fasten your seatbelts, this will be a long one as it joins few older Bay PRs into one.
1. Ports https://github.com/Baystation12/Baystation12/pull/12626
- SMES units may now be damaged and destroyed. Charged SMES units fail quite violently. Damage can be fixed by welding tool.
- PSUs completely refactored, ghetto variant no longer exists.
- Cell rack PSUs now can be considered a hybrid between large battery charger and a SMES. They actually use the cells to store power (so you can hot-swap the cells to get more juice simply via the UI without deconstructing the whole machine), but in comparison to SMES have poor throughput and capacity in general (cells are simply too small). They are also somewhat limited in configuration options (lacks the precision electronics of a SMES). Better matter bin lets you put in more cells, up to 9.
- Cell rack PSU also has a mode that allows charge-balancing all inserted batteries (moves energy around so each battery has the same charge %)
2. Ports https://github.com/Baystation12/Baystation12/pull/11977
- SMES units now have full load balancing capability, getting rid of that annoying "One SMES charges at full, other SMES gets nothing" problem. If insufficient power is available on input, all inputting SMESes will now charge at same percentage. If more SMESes power a single output, they will all output equal percentage of their setting.
- This appears to have a pleasant side effect of fixing the issue where SMESes could starve APCs of energy. SMESes are ALWAYS last to input power on a powernet.
- This also appears to have fixed weird values displayed in SMES output/input load readings in the UI. By weird values i mostly mean inputs/outputs actually higher than the SMES is set to have.
3. Ports https://github.com/Baystation12/Baystation12/pull/18137
- SMES units (and subtypes, therefore effectively also PSUs from previous entry) can now have more than one terminal. This effectively allows a setup where two (or more) sources feed a single SMES, which then feeds the output. SMESes can not exceed input setting even with multiple terminals.
- Typical example of use in practice would be SMES that runs something important (for example an AI, telecomms, pick whatever you want). It could have one input from the power grid, and second input from a PACMAN generator set up nearby as a backup. Before the generator would have to be wired into main grid, therefore main grid would siphon off power from it. Now the generator can be separate and dedicated for whatever use you want.
Keeps the same "bold if changed" functionality added in recent QoL improvements, but replaces the one-datum-instance per hint per device with a two number vars per device.
* Makes hacking window consider all hands instead of just the active one.
* Makes bottom indicators in hacking window go bold if they changed since the last refresh.
* Changelog
- Pulsing input/output wires now toggles the input/output settings, instead of disabling for 60s
- Pulsing grounding wire now disables grounding until the wire is cut and mended again.
- Allows remote control of SMES units and Breaker Boxes.
- Adds wires to SMES units. Wires may be cut/pulsed for various effects. Signallers are supported.
- RCON console(s) may be used to monitor the SMES units (which have RCON enabled) remotely, showing output loads and charge percentages.
- SMESs may be quickly discharged by cutting the grounding wire. This however comes with little risk of overload which may damage APCs on output powernet.
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