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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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Current issues related to Transformers #235

Closed Caeleron closed 2 years ago

Caeleron commented 3 years ago

As part of the fix for the current spike problem that caused DC-DCs and transformer poles to pull a large amount of current when charging the primary load from the secondary load, the charging step was skipped to not create the spike. This inadvertently created a free energy source where charge is added to the system when the current spike is skipped and doesn't require that charge to be pulled on the other side.

Currently there are three possible solutions being investigated:

  1. Enforce unidirectional DC-DCs, since the current spike only occurs when charging backwards.
  2. Use inductors and AC for real transformers (Unlikely option)
  3. Use current sources rather than voltage sources in DC-DCs, converting the measured equivalent Thevenin systems into Norton systems. Current sources added in #234