Rust Electricity - the FIRST and most important circuit to build

this is the first and most important circuit every Russ player should build when setting up an electrical system that uses a battery newer players tend to connect their power source in this case a solar panel directly to their battery and the battery directly to whatever else they need to send power to while this will work the battery gets utilized while it's being charged and depending on solar conditions this may result in a less than fully charged battery that won't last you through the night when the Sun sets this concept also applies when you're using other variable power sources such as wind turbines while you can set up enough turbines or solar panels to create a large buffer of power generation to prevent a lot of issues why spend the resources for extra power that may be wasted when you can just set up a smart circuit instead the infinite power circuit allows you to power all your components using all of the available solar or wind energy first and only switches to battery power if there is not enough from your primary generation sources to keep your base running conversely if there is extra power being generated from solar or wind it is used to charge the battery this is why this should be the first circuit you build once you are able since it sits between all of your power sources and the rest of your basis electrical systems to build the circuit you obviously need some sort of power source on a battery you will also need two branches a blocker and an or switch while you can buy a solar panel wind turbine and medium battery between bandit camp and outpost you can't buy any of the other electrical components you will need unless you have the BPS to craft them you will either need to find them in the wild or buy them from another players vending machine if available for this video I'm going to use a single solar panel and a small battery to show you how the circuit works I'll upload more detailed explanations of how to scale the system up for larger batteries as well as multiple power sources and storage configurations I will also explain how to calculate the right amount of power you will need to produce to most efficiently power your system while providing enough extra juice to recharge the battery completely in one cycle I'll include links in the description to those videos once they are uploaded the build is fairly straightforward so I'll show you those steps first and then explain how it works place your two branches a blocker and an or switch the or switch is the last stop in the circuit and will output your main power line to the rest of your system now for the wiring connect your solar panel to the power in over the first branch set the branch amount to nine which you'll notice is one less than the ten power of small battery outputs I'll explain how we get this number later connect the branch we just set to one of the inputs on your switch this branch is what powers our circuit with our solar panel when there is no Sun from the remaining power out to the next branch which is where we'll handle the charging and discharging of the battery keep the branch value at the default which is two and run this branch to the block pass through run the remaining power out to the battery input then run the battery output to the power in on the blocker and then take the power out from the blocker and connect it to the second input in the or switch this line provides the power from the battery when it is active and discharging again the power out from your switch is the main power line that feeds the rest of your system or whatever it is you want to provide power to now let me explain how the circuit works in a little more detail here's the completed circuit with a solar panel producing its max output of twenty watts the components with power are in green or yellow the solar panel is running everything and the extra power is being used to charge the battery as shown with the blue highlight the blocker is not highlighted which means it is doing its job and preventing power from the battery from running through it while there is sufficient solar power available the net output is eight power from the or switch went on solar power now if there's insufficient power from the solar panel or if it is destroyed the battery kicks in and you'll still output a constant power from the or switch regardless as you can see here when the solar power is restored the battery stops discharging and starts to recharge while the solar panel powers the system at a constant eight power again the reason this all works is due to how our branch redistributes power when you set the amount of power to branch that amount is always sent by the branch output first with anything remaining beyond that sent by the power out what that means is if you have less power available coming into the branch than what is needed for both a branch and the power out then the power out will get less power first until it is to zero before the branch loses any power the opposite is true as power comes back on the initial watts are redirected to the branch first until that amount is met before we're distributing the leftovers via the power out so back to our circuit we have 20 power from the solar panel going into the first branch the reason we branch out nine here or one less than the max battery output is because every electrical component uses one power so when the battery is active it outputs 10 power of which 2 is used between the blocker and the or switch netting 8 power to get the same level of power from the solar panel we set this first branch to 9 since we only lose one power from the or switch after this branch which gets you to the same net 8 power this assumes you want to have the same power available regardless of time of day if for some reason you want to maximise the power from the solar panel and then use less power when on battery you can increase the branch amount to more than 9 but you need to mess around with it to make sure you're still sending some power to activate the blocker and charge the battery for long enough to last through the night if you don't send enough power of the battery it will discharge prematurely and you will eventually run out of power that's where properly sizing your power generation be it solar or wind becomes critical and as a topic for another video so we siphon off 9 watts in our first branch from our 20 watt solar power and send that to our or switch we lose one to this branch and that leaves us with 10 power to send to the second branch for the battery this second branch takes 2 power to activate the blocker consumes 1 watt in the branch itself and then sends the remaining 7 watts to charge the battery while the battery is able to output 10 watts it is currently being blocked as you can see here with the blocker outputting nothing while the solar panel is active as soon as the amount of power from solar is insufficient the blocker loses power and releases the flow of electricity from the battery let's see how this works in practice keeping in mind the mechanism we have demonstrated for how branches distribute power as the solar power drops we first lose power going to charge the battery from the power output of the second branch once that power is exhausted we start to lose power going to the blocker itself from the branch outside as we reach 12 output from the solar panel you can see there is only one power left going to the blocker which means once solar availability is below 12 the battery will start to discharge despite there being some solar power available again how much extra power generation you have available will directly dictate when this cutoff happens during the day and whether you'll have enough power to last through the night at this point the clock is ticking on your battery and as long as your solar panel is providing less than 12 power it will not be used for anything as the Sun rises again once we get to 12 power or more from the panel it takes over providing the power to our system and then starts to charge the battery again once there is sufficient power beyond the needs of the system the power output from the or switch is always at 8 regardless of power source and that's it the most important and for a circuit you should build in your electrical system once you have the right components let me know if you have any questions or want me to explain anything else in more detail in a future video by commenting below and stay tuned for future videos where I show you how to apply the circuit to any configuration you may need

Channel: RamRod Games | Gaming

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Keywords: rust, ramrod, rustguide, rustelectricity

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 17 2020