Satisfactory - How To Use Power Storage and Switches - Update 4 

One of the big uses of power storage I am using is for a restart power source. You make sure you have enough power reserves to run all the machines need to get just your power plant running. I.E. miners and water extractors for coal; oil pumps, refineries etc for fuel plants, etc. Once fully charged use a switch to disconnect it, also make sure you have a switch to disconnect the power plant from the rest of your factories. This way if somehow your plant backs up and you drain all your other batteries you can get your plant up and running again. The key is to keep it disconnected once charged so you don’t drain your reserves if the plant goes down. Once down you disconnect from the other factories ( so you are not wasting your reserve power), then connect your backup power. If you sized it correctly you should have enough time to get your power plant back up and running, then recharge your backup, disconnect your backup, then reconnect your factories. It can literally save you hours on restarting a turbo fuel power plant that goes dry from missing a 1 meter belt connection.

I have found out something awesome: You can unlock multiple hub parts without waiting every time, place all the required stuff in the hub for a milestone, DO NOT CLICK THE LAUNCH BUTTON, select some other milestone, put the required stuff in and do it with all the other milestones you want to unlock And then (when all the stuff is put in the hub you can launch every milestone in one streak.without waiting for the pod to come back

An interesting thing about Biomass Burners now is that they don't use *any* fuel if your power needs on the circuit are met by your other power plants. Which makes them an excellent emergency backup. Especially if, like me, you obsessively pick up leaves whenever you're running around because you want the ground to be nice and tidy. :-) Personally, I'm working on dividing my power grid into sections based on categories. The most important of those is for fuel... everything needed to run my generators of all types is going on its own circuit, which I plan to power entirely with Geothermal (or anything else in the future that doesn't need any fuel itself).

The batteries are awesome, But for mega factories and late game, I feel like we needed a Mk.2 Battery that can hold 500MWh+. Because any big factory will run dry in no time unless you have hundreds and hundreds of these batteries.

Let's face it, if you have to run to the switch every time power goes down, you might as well just go back to the cable cutting method since it's functionally equivalent. They really need to provide a way to interact with switches at a distance to truly make them useful. Satisfactory is also starting to have a number of cases where a circuit network, a little bit like the one you have in Factorio, could prove useful.

I think the switches are good to segment factories and/or per item that you want to produce. This way you can do manual priorities for everything if you really need some items while fixing the power.

Fun Fact: there is still an alternate recipe with the uranium pallets to make the cells

I think the power storage is really powerful, I started update 4 in an old save and started building a new base. All the power from the geothermal power is going in storage, every time the storage was full I build more after this weekend I ended up with 40GWh stored😂

PLEASE! Tell Coffeestain that ON switch position is upwards, and OFF position is downwards. It is opposite ATM. They have to correct it.

Stumbled on channel from my feed. I need to rewatch this when I'm sober ebough to comprehend it.

Unless coffee stain are planning on changing resources to finite, the power generator changes aren't really that much of a big deal. Power might be lost but if the resources being used to make it is infinite then you're not really losing anything from going mad building powerplants and having a vast excess before doing a construction run that would otherwise flatline a factory. Am kind of hoping they add a pop up notice similar to the MAM one to let you know when the batteries are actually being used.

You can also make an AND gate by linking two switches in series. Also you don’t need a third switch for the OR gate, just merge them into a single connection. To make more complex logical circuits (I.e a 4 bit computer) all that would be needed is a transistor type switch and a method to store a bit of memory. A single switch of this type would function as an AND gate, allowing you to build all other logic gates with some spicy spaghetti. From there all that would be needed is an APU, a memory aray, a few busses, and some good old fashion manually input assembly

So what's your thoughts on Switches and Power storage at the moment, let me know in the comments below! :)

If using both as backups, biofuel burns before power storage is used. Keep that in mind if your power plan involves using both as a backup.

i enjoy having Small Bases all over the map, the Map is my base :D but at the Main storage facility creating a Breaker Room w/ Extra Power Hidden in the main facility can help us Manage the Power. But the cool thing about that approach there can a unique design towards each facility around the map.

this is some crazy tips man thank you so much!

Confirms my suspicion; they are load switches rather than power switches. Power switches don't switch off multiple generators at the same time. The current major problem is producing extreme power excesses. It takes longer to gather resources and build 100 power storages than for them to fully charge. Pre-update 4: a 100% guaranteed grid demanded the coal capacity >> consumption, and the generators would then match the production to the consumption. It allowed to suddenly build enormous projects far away from main base without destroying the grid which would disable my transportation (hyper tubes). Any excess in coal usage would be diverted to produce steel. Building a project would limit the steel production (a bit), but allowed the generators to drain a little extra coal. This system worked perfectly. Never had a grid failure since tier 3. Now... the coal generators produce full power which completely drain my steel production. I now produce 4 times the amount of energy that I consume. I manually switched off half of all coal generators, which is a sad and time-consuming task but I still produce excess power and have 300 fully charged power storages. I was so happy with the sophisticated production matches consumption, that I couldn't imagine they would ever delete that from a game.

Just a couple hours ago I completed my 100 unit battery building with holds 10,000 MW! It is amazingly helpful that they are able to daisy chain.

Still longing for remote access UI switchboards. Just some simple pannel you can plop down and interact with that will bring up all your switch units (As named) and allow you to use them without needing to teleport over the map.

if your power already broke down you're running around fixing it anyway, if you have to manually engage your backup power that's an extra step of work just to keep your factory running a few minutes longer if your power is majorly broken down that's the real issue I think batteries could be used as a buffer for expansion, or if you have extremely fluctuating power and don't want to set up additional power facilities at the time instead of batteries you could also just store water and coal/fuel for extra generators

I made a building or control center if you may, full of switches for my mega factory.

I know the video is 12 months old but anyway... A big use I don't see mentioned for power storage is when pulling a power line from a train station; I basically pair every train station with a power storage so any work done on the rails network won't shutdown my production lines pulling power from the rails. (at least for 100MWh which is often plenty of time to reconnect the rails)

cool cool, feel wierd watching how to use to things i know how to use but here for support not learning ^^ lol

Haven't heard a compelling reason to care about wasting power since resources are infinite

So is the Smart! mod still working without mod updates or was it already updated?

I still can't get my power storage to charge and I am making double the power I need. Love your videos

logic gates really are what we need in update 6

I have a question: Is there anything stopping me from building 5000 batterys in one huge block like I didnt already do that….?

Thx

Hey, nobody has made a tutorial on the topic but how many power storages should you build for your geothermal generator? Or do you add however many you want?

ty xman

keeping those algorithms happy...

I could use power storage as a failsafe in case my other power production systems go off-line so I can re-jumpstart them

I dislike how Circuit B doesn't show the numbers of Circuit B when the switch is on.

I got these, they're charged up. No flash effect, no discharge to stabilize my network. Any help? Oh, they are daisy-chained 1->2->3.. -power line

how do you play on experimental build of satisfactory?

We need an inverter

My game said it downloaded the update but I have no update in game.....🤔🤔🤔🤔

Whit out logic switches its all ussless cause you still produce more power then you need so basicli scaling up power production is easier then constantly runing and switching power on and of..... stupid bussi work.

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1:50 this piping hurts to see xd

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