Battery Automation / Efficiency! | No Man's Sky BEYOND 

Dude, your an absolute legend for doing this video, I'm been having power issues with my recent base and was wondering what I was going to do, and you literally answered all my questions and issues, thank you so much again and also nice base! Your set up looks hell neat!

I did a variation of this earlier. On my base i have a large nip nip farm. I built an entire battery bank dedicated for the hydro stations. I built a 2nd battery bank for everything else. To make sure I unknowingly don't run out of power in bank 1 while building, I built it to switch over to bank 2 & added a ton of red flashing emergency lights to notify me. This circuit has worked flawlessly & my farm is never without power. Using your solar panels to cycle on/off the lights for night time is a nice touch to every build as well.

Just watched this video. Ingenious! To answer your question about a generator, add one inverter and one auxiliary solar panel to the top of each circuit. Connect an EMG to inverter green, auxiliary solar panel to inverter gate, and inverter red to the circuit battery. The circuit will still function as normal, charging only when the battery is depleted, but will only do so at night. Note: Build one EMG for each circuit, and do not connect them together.

This is the best system and it made me understand how electrical engineering works too, very cool! However I encountered an unexpected problem with this system as well by accident. (Im usually am absent minded about these things and im kinda proud I noticed it) Im going to make a guesswork on the problem: My character have a base on a humid planet. During less sunny day, the solar panel absorbs half the power from the sunlight and then at that point it uses both the powers from the panel and the charged battery itself, draining the battery during the day. The problem that I encountered was somewhat of a power drainage loop. Once the battery drains to zero during the day, it will charge itself from the solar panel (that absorb less than the maximum power output) then the battery powers the base again and a second after that, it depletes again instead of switching to the other two backup batteries. My base was blinking and I have to delete the wire from the first battery so that it uses the other two. Perhaps the only solution is to make two solar panels for the first battery, so that during days that is less sunny, it wont drain the first battery unless its nighttime. Haven't tested it myself, will try it later on. Thanks for the guide by the way, the technicals made the game fun to figure out for me.

This is super cool to work this kind of circuitry out, but also a pointless endeavour. Just add as many batteries as you need for each different size base you construct (all wired to each other), along with the appropriate amount of solar panels needed. Better still, search for the electrical hotspot on your chosen planet and link with pylons. Then hide all the wires if needed. I've built huge bases in NMS and never once had the problem of running out of power, even in low light environments.

Ill I'll definitely be using this. Thank you so much. I love the ability to make logic gates in nms and the more people who make videos about it and share their designs the more advancement we can make. I've kinda been wondering if its possible to make redstone like computers on nms. And I've been trying to find as much as I can on logic on minecraft and nms as I can. There's alot on minecraft but not as much on nms logic stuff so I really appreciate people who post videos on nms logic.

this helped heaps, i've managed to hook all the solar panels up to charge all 4 batteries that i'm using and have a 5th solar panel to cut the connection between all the solar panels so i don't get a feed back loop(i had the same problem with the first battery not being able to even start charging back up after it depleted) thanks for the guide!!!

Impressive design... Great work... But let me ask one question: Why not simply connect the batteries to each other? Aren't the storage of the batteries adding up if you connect them?

This is great. You could even have green-yellow-red light set up as a "low battery" indicator.

Creating a power grid by connecting the batteries is the most efficient way. You’re effectively using the same power but spending a lot of time with the wiring and switches.

or.. you build 1 extra battery and 2 solar panels instead of all the switch magic ^^

I would love to see a follow up video on door automation, I've been trying various ways to do a two door secure airlock.

I find this explanation horribly complicated, but this system is amaaaazing. It's costing me hours just to decipher what you mean, but it seems to be working little by little. One question though.... While ONE BATTERY is powering the whole base, doesn't it deplete much faster than if you had, say.... TEN BATTERIES depleting all at once...? Do you have any battery drainage stats to compare the two builds when they deplete? O.o?

I might be wrong, but it looks like you have a separate solar panel for each battery. Why not have all the solar panels wired up together?

I run minimum 3 solar arrays to every one battery but I’ve spent awhile trying to do this same thing because I saw all batteries draining at same time and I didn’t like that

this save my life

Just one question...why? At a given drain rate 3 batteries connected together drain 3x slower than 1 battery(they're basically 1 big battery), so there is no benefit from this.

I wana use it.looking for.this vid for a while

i have a green light when being used and a red light when empty, 98 solar panels and 41 battery's powering 100 large hydro bays all the time day and night, grouped into 7 banks

Hey I got a ?. Similar to this but what I want is a system when my solar panels are working a red light will be on. When its night it turns off. Issue is the battery back feeds and keeps the light on. Any idea??

Your intro is cool 😊

So all my batteries run at the same time..

Doesn't work for me. Don't know why.

Things must have changed, cause I can not do this.

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