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Once your kit is constructed in the electronics printer, place it somewhere in or near your base. Connect cables from your power generators to the front power port of the battery. Use more cables to connect the back of the battery to your APC. Make sure that you do not connect the front of the battery with the back of the battery to avoid short-circuiting your electrical supply: you will need to disconnect your generators from your APC to ensure that there is a clean flow of energy from the generators to the battery to the APC to your equipment. | Once your kit is constructed in the electronics printer, place it somewhere in or near your base. Connect cables from your power generators to the front power port of the battery. Use more cables to connect the back of the battery to your APC. Make sure that you do not connect the front of the battery with the back of the battery to avoid short-circuiting your electrical supply: you will need to disconnect your generators from your APC to ensure that there is a clean flow of energy from the generators to the battery to the APC to your equipment. | ||
| − | As your start | + | As your start to scale up your power usage, be mindful of the amount of energy that you are generating. Normal [[Cable Coil|cables]] can only handle 5 kW of energy at any given time before they burn out. As your power production starts to scale up, you run the risk of burning out normal cables between your power generators and your battery. Consider replacing these cables with the more expensive, but more robust, [[Cable Coil|heavy cables]]. These heavy cables can sustain 100 kW before frying. Similarly, as you scale up your power usage, you might fry your cables on the output side of your battery or APC. As batteries and APCs do not have a maximum output if there is a large draw of energy they can put out more capacity than your cables can handle. Consider using a heavy cable between your battery and APC, and possibly a [[Transformer|small transformer]] after your APC to limit usage to 5 kW. You can analyze your power usage by using your tablet with the [[Cartridge|network analyzer cartridge]] by pointing your tablet at a cable in your network. Note that APCs, batteries, and transformers isolate networks from one another, so analyzing the cables before your battery will only show your power generation. |
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