BIE'S Battery Management Station

A one-stop shop for managing your empire's batteries!

(reddit post link)

Greetings, engineers!

While this print has a mundane name, the “Battery Management Station” (BMS) will become a crucial part of your empire! Every NHP pilot who’s spent any time dealing with accumulators knows the horror of learning there are too few—or worse, too many!—accumulators in circulation. Flitting from system to system, charger to charger trying to find that one planet that’s hoarding accumulators is a real chore, and the BMS is here to help!

Firstly, BMS is a high-speed accumulator factory. Feed in the raw materials and some Mark 3 Proliferator spray and it will churn out empty accumulators at 300/minute! These feed into a storage array that will hold 48,000 empties, and has convenient markings to show you how many are available at a glance! 
The storage feeds into the ILS via BIE’s new Cut-n-Paste(tm) switching system, which only resembles conveyor belts with a section cut out, according to our legal department. In actuality, it’s a high-tech method of preventing “spray corruption”, where stored batteries may lose some of the MK3 proliferator spray if an un-sprayed battery is introduced into the same silo. When it’s time to send batteries into the network, just cut-and-paste ((tm)!) the belt segments placed conveniently nearby and the storage will hurl batteries into the ILS at a blistering 43,000-per-minute rate, spraying every last one in the process! When you’re done, cut the belts again for a neat and easy stop!

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! The BMS can also help with the dreaded “too many batteries” nightmare! There’s another storage array at the end of the print, and this one is made to help you take charged accumulators out of circulation! Flip the demand switch on the ILS to request charged accumulators and it will shuffle them into storage, where it can hold up to 144,000 out of the box. When it’s time to put them back in, another Cut-N-Paste(tm) switch allows for easy injection while keeping the ILS free to receive or send more!

As an added bonus, this storage array and belt system can be easily configured to work with empty accumulators as well….OR BOTH AT ONCE! Just reset the belt outputs on the ILS and filter a handful of sorters in the array to manage whichever you need! 

Now that’s convenience!

MAKE CRAZY THINGS, ENGINEERS!

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As for BMS features, the ad copy pretty much covered all of it. If you do want to use it suck in empties and fulls at the same time, just change one of the charged-accumulator output belts to an empty-accumulator belt, then filter one of the sorters on the first box the belts feed. You'd need to reserve space in the last box with the box filters, and filter one of the outgoing sorters as well.

BMS also has a sneaky little "chain input" belt next to the final accumulator assembler, marked with the empty-accumulator belt signage. You can thus daisy-chain several BMS for speedier manufacturing, while just using the last one in the chain to manage batteries.
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