Keep trying, and failing, to start engine - what am I doing wrong?

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The power still dumps into the SMES so long as you don't cut them from the network. You can set the SMES input to max and the output to a number that won't zero it out to give an extra cushion if you'd like. You know, if somebody blows up the solar arrays or something.

As far as I'm aware, hotwiring solars is all positive; and it only takes running a wire two steps.