Goonhub
02-27-2023, 08:57 AM
I'm pretty sure that 1%* is off by a factor 10, and also APCs don't tick every second anymore. If I understand the code right it's actually 0.1% every 3.2s. - That's why they charge at a glacial pace in general.
I wanna say though, if I remember right the APC code will look at the consumed load since last tick and if it can draw all of it from the grid, then the APC should be fine. Problem here is that what any APC can draw from the grid is just the total power available divided by the number of APCs, so the system doesn't account for outliers.
I dunno if that's hard to follow for non coding folks so for example:
-If we take cog1 for example and ignore solars, the TEG supplies 4 SMESes that can each output 200kW at most or 800kW total. (Not that people set them that high, but...)
-Say that there's 80 APCs on the cog1 main grid (a low estimate), that makes for 10kW per APC on average.
-Most APCs are well below that and probably won't even reach 5kW. Assuming they do, that's 5*79 = 395kW so there's a 405kW surplus still
-If telesci has their portal active that's a 50kW continuous drain, which is well within that surplus but because it is above the 10kW average the APC will draw 10kW and drain the cell for 40kW worth.
-That shit's fucked. Sorry for ruining the powernet magic for y'all.
I don't remember the conversion to cell charge but obviously it works out to much less than 40k on the cell, those 2500 capacity APC cells don't run out in seconds after all.
(*assuming Lord_earthfire looked at https://github.com/goonstation/goonstati...ery.dm#L34 - the comment is incorrect there: 1 = 100%, so 0.1 = 10% etc)
I wanna say though, if I remember right the APC code will look at the consumed load since last tick and if it can draw all of it from the grid, then the APC should be fine. Problem here is that what any APC can draw from the grid is just the total power available divided by the number of APCs, so the system doesn't account for outliers.
I dunno if that's hard to follow for non coding folks so for example:
-If we take cog1 for example and ignore solars, the TEG supplies 4 SMESes that can each output 200kW at most or 800kW total. (Not that people set them that high, but...)
-Say that there's 80 APCs on the cog1 main grid (a low estimate), that makes for 10kW per APC on average.
-Most APCs are well below that and probably won't even reach 5kW. Assuming they do, that's 5*79 = 395kW so there's a 405kW surplus still
-If telesci has their portal active that's a 50kW continuous drain, which is well within that surplus but because it is above the 10kW average the APC will draw 10kW and drain the cell for 40kW worth.
-That shit's fucked. Sorry for ruining the powernet magic for y'all.
I don't remember the conversion to cell charge but obviously it works out to much less than 40k on the cell, those 2500 capacity APC cells don't run out in seconds after all.
(*assuming Lord_earthfire looked at https://github.com/goonstation/goonstati...ery.dm#L34 - the comment is incorrect there: 1 = 100%, so 0.1 = 10% etc)