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Power Management Script

Purpose:

- Bottom line, this script's primary purpose is to conserve uranium on your station/mobile base in survival.


What does it do?

- This script calculates the average power charge of all batteries on a grid and compares it against the user defined upper and lower battery capacity thresholds. If the low average battery capacity threshold is reached, the script turns on the user defined reactors. If the high threshold is reached, it turns off the reactors to conserve uranium and lets the batteries/solar panels handle the power load. It then displays diagnostic information about the station's power on a user defined LCD panel.


Do I need to install any additional Mods/Scripts?

- Nope. This one's completely independent and vanilla friendly.


Ideal Configuration:

- Station/Mobile base with solar panels, batteries, a reactor, and LCD panel.


Why is this ideal?

- Theoretically, you want your solar panels and batteries to do the majority of the heavy lifting on powering your station/mobile base while conserving Uranium. On the flip side, if you're not getting enough sun, you want your reactors to kick in. You also want the LCD panel to get summarized feedback on what's going on.



5 steps to set up:

1) Looped Timer block to trigger the script every 10sec or so.

2) Set Variable: reactorSearchString= A string of text like "Station Reactor" for 1 or mulitple reactors

3) Set Variable: lcdName = The name of the LCD you want info on

4) Set Variable: batteryLowThreshold = A decimal value of the battery capacity percentage you want the reactors to turn on at (Example, 10% battery capacity = .1)

5) Set Variable: batteryHighThreshold = A decimal value of the battery capacity percentage you want the reactors to turn off at (Example, 75% battery capacity = .75)


Enjoy!