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Surge Protection

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UPDATED 9 SEPT '24

A one-of-a-kind surge protection system, no batteries required.

Never fry another junction box! This thing will not only give you immunity against load drops from the engine itself, but also provide excellent protection against any unexpected power increase by using the engine itself to absorb all excess power.

As a pulse-width modulating (PWM) design, it will produce the correct amount of directional thrust so the Captain does not need to worry about loss of control or performance. Works with helm bonus.

Losing the power or load signals will get the engine stuck on its current setting, therefore you should optimally wire these from the reactor or junction box that powers the engine to make this irrelevant.
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Lammert  [author] 13 Apr @ 9:51am 
Yes, it should work fine connecting multiple engines to it.
microwave 12 Apr @ 7:27am 
Also this works fine with 2 engines right, like with the winterhalter? can i just connect two engines at once to it?
Lammert  [author] 7 Jan @ 4:03am 
There is no easy way to tell if maintain position is engaged so it will.. While in my testing this was fine, I think you may see some oscillation for engines with particularly high thrust values.

If you're overvolting it helps to crudely subtract some of the protectors' load before going into the ARC, otherwise it may have trouble winding down, particularly when the gap between overvoltage and the minimum value on the surge protector is very small.
microwave 5 Jan @ 12:26pm 
Is it also supposed to trigger itself when autopilot maintain position is on? it makes autopilot a bit funky
Lammert  [author] 11 Sep, 2024 @ 12:03am 
No, but you should make sure you do not overvolt more than where the protection kicks in (and fades out). These voltages are configurable through the clamp values and target signals, I believe they should be labeled.

Additionally, you may want to subtract the currently active protection from your load before sending it into the reactor controller, this does not have to be very precise, it's probably ok to pretend the engine power use is linear. Otherwise the reactor will probably only ramp down very slowly particularly when they are close. E.g. overvolting to 1.7 and having the protection at 1.8-1.9
microwave 10 Sep, 2024 @ 1:25pm 
does this have any downsides when overvolting the reactor on purpose?