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Electrical Age (ELN) is a Minecraft Mod offering the ability to perform large-scale in-game electrical simulations.

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Utility pole with fuse #598

Open bowserjr2424 opened 7 years ago

bowserjr2424 commented 7 years ago

Sorta like #591 but different, I mean it has a socket and you can put lead fuses in it.

cm0x4D commented 7 years ago

Afaik there are no brakers nor fuses for high voltage used irl. This is all done with high voltage switches that are controlled by advanced protection equipment (Called IED). These devices analyze grid measures and decide when to open a switch.

What would be possible is to integrate a simple lead fuse holder in the utility poles that have a transformer and a downlink...

Baughn commented 7 years ago

I'd like to gate this on a partial rewrite of the poles, to make them modular. Otherwise we'll get a combinatorial number of pole variants.

AMIDIBOSS commented 7 years ago

I still think that downlink poles should have GUI with component slots. Is it possible to use existing pole w electrical box, and make it component box?

Baughn commented 7 years ago

That's essentially what I'm saying.

I think there should be only one type of pole (for each size of pole), and that should have (a) component slot(s), in which we could place some number of components. Transformer, fuse, wireless repeater, etc etc.

AMIDIBOSS commented 7 years ago

And what pole sizes do you plan? maybe you need help with some? I'd suggest making lower tier ones for low voltages for short distance power distribution. Cause none of the machines uses 3k2V

Baughn commented 7 years ago

You do know you can put lower voltages into the existing poles, right? ;-)

What I could use help with is the grid-sized transformer model, because the current one is programmer art and looks awful. Otherwise, two tiers: The 12.8kV utility poles, and some fairly massive, 51.2kV steel poles.

They both use HV cable, which gives the second tier 16x the capacity of the current ones. In other words, about 1.2 MW. That should be enough.

AMIDIBOSS commented 7 years ago

How exacly massive you plan theese poles to be? and YES i will help with the transformer model, glad i could help (I'd rather make big, i mean BIG dc/dc converter model)

Baughn commented 7 years ago

About 2x2x7 but I'll need to work it out in-game; I'm not sure how it'd look yet.

Re. grid transformers:

You can find the existing model (such as it is) in src/main/resources/assets/eln/model/PowerPole/transformer2.blend. It's good enough that I don't need to wait for improvements before finishing this (kim made it; mine is the transformer.blend file, which is worse), but something that looks more like real life would be great.
It's meant to fit inside a 2x2x2 cube, but don't take that as gospel.
I absolutely can animate parts of it. If you'd like to stick on a fan that automatically turns on and off with load, say, then I can definitely handle the coding part of it.
And if you have questions, IRC is a better place to ask them than here. I'm usually available.