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"No Hazmat Permit": Gigacharger 86
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Bug's Interstellar Emporium is proud to bring you our latest, 86.4 GW of high-speed battery charging! Plunk this down on a sphere-enclosed planet and say goodbye to your worries about having enough battery throughput! 1,922 exchangers backed by a lens-pumped horde of 1,500+ ray receivers means you can sling over 19,000 fully-charged batteries a minute far and wide across your empire!
Gigacharger 86 is packed with nifty features!
An on-site proliferator blackbox!
An on-site lens blackbox!
On-site battery blackboxes and injectors!
Dual-mode diamond supply, from kimberlite or coal or both, your choice with an easy splitter priority change!
A 3-to-20 belt balancer!
An optional output balancer, in place and ready to go with only a few PLS output switches!
There's even a sign!
Get yours today!
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There's really only two switches you need to flip after placing this. First is the PLS that supplies gravity lenses--it's set to storage. This is because lens manufacture usually happens before the proliferator gets there, and the big key to this gigacharger working at full output is sprayed lenses with the max-level spray on them. Wait for the proliferator to back up and start accumulating in the PLS, then wait for the belt loop from the PLS to get all the current lenses sprayed. THEN flip it to supply. This makes sure all the lenses that go out into the receivers have the max level of spray.
Second is the splitter that feeds the diamonds into the grav lens assemblers. As is, it will feed kimberlite diamonds and coal diamonds equally. If you don't have kimberlite, it'll take care of itself. If you want to prefer one or the other, set its input priority accordingly.
With that out of the way...this was an exercise in seeing how dense I could pack a planet for a gigacharger. To be completely honest, if I was relying on outside manufacture of batteries, lenses, and proliferator, I could probably get the throughput to break 20,000 batteries by using the blackbox space for more exchangers. But I wanted this one to be as self-sufficient as possible, so I included blackboxes that could supply all the necessary sprays and lenses. I could probably compact the proliferator blackbox down a bit, but eh, it's kinda cool that it rings the tropics.
I went belt-fed on this one for looks, speed and space concerns, as it's far easier to run belts overhead and dip down into an array than it is to jam in a PLS and belts. Gigacharger Six uses PLS to great effect, but it's nowhere near this power-dense. It's also got a fairly large buffer delay due to all the PLS place and minimum-drone-capacity requirements, which can really bite you if it's your first and only gigacharger.
I'm pretty happy with the belt-balancer! Many thanks to pyroinfernia, Maxituz, and doge_kim, as I cribbed heavily off their prints and rebuilt 'em to fit together to get the final product.
For the battery injector, its PLSes are set to supply, while all of the ILS that receive batteries are set to remote-demand/local-storage. Flip one of them to local-demand to inject batteries. (Then turn it off, you don't want to flood the works.)
As for the pilers, the ones that feed empties into the array aren't strictly necessary as the same number of batteries go downrange no matter what. However, since all the exchangers get their batteries via MK1 sorters, de-piling the battery stream makes for faster uptake--more exchangers start charging more quickly, since each grabs only one at a time instead of four. Since gigachargers look way cooler when more exchangers are going at once, de-piling it is.
The output pilers also aren't strictly needed, but they sure do cut down on the number of belts I'd have to weave into those PLS. They do serve as a great indicator of activity, though--if they're all quiet, then there's either no batteries on the belts or the belts are backed up past them.
There's also an output balancer ready to go if you want to divide the batteries (mostly) equally amongst the various ILS. Just turn off the 3-lane connecting belt outputs from the PLS and between each ILS, and turn on the belts going to the balancer. Leave the 3-lanes connecting the last few ILS going, though, they'll take up extras.
The whole array takes quite a good long while to spin up to max power, as lenses have to be made and distributed and there's lots of belts and receivers to fill. Give it a couple of hours once you've flipped the lens-PLS to supply mode. That said, it'll charge batteries at a ~43GW clip even with no lenses, once the receivers get up to max on-time.
Lastly, there's also a neon sign. :) It'll draw yellow and purple cubes from the logistics network to light it up. All the surrounding belts help hide the bits connecting the letters together when viewed from orbit. That ILS also doesn't use cargo stacking in order to cut down on the cubes needed for the sign, which is why its battery belts are routed the way they are.
Feel free to plunk this down and chop out various bits! The polar ray receivers are a good candidate for using elsewhere, as are the various chunks of the input balancer, especially the 3-to-3 balancer right by the battery ILS output. The double-ended battery maker/injector is also pretty nice, as it fits in high-polar areas. The tropical ray receiver lines might also suit as a template for your receiver planets, and the equatorial exchangers are about the most UPS-friendly way I can come up with to feed exchangers--no splitters between each receiver/exchanger!
Make crazy things, engineers!
Bug's Interstellar Emporium is proud to bring you our latest, 86.4 GW of high-speed battery charging! Plunk this down on a sphere-enclosed planet and say goodbye to your worries about having enough battery throughput! 1,922 exchangers backed by a lens-pumped horde of 1,500+ ray receivers means you can sling over 19,000 fully-charged batteries a minute far and wide across your empire!
Gigacharger 86 is packed with nifty features!
An on-site proliferator blackbox!
An on-site lens blackbox!
On-site battery blackboxes and injectors!
Dual-mode diamond supply, from kimberlite or coal or both, your choice with an easy splitter priority change!
A 3-to-20 belt balancer!
An optional output balancer, in place and ready to go with only a few PLS output switches!
There's even a sign!
Get yours today!
----
There's really only two switches you need to flip after placing this. First is the PLS that supplies gravity lenses--it's set to storage. This is because lens manufacture usually happens before the proliferator gets there, and the big key to this gigacharger working at full output is sprayed lenses with the max-level spray on them. Wait for the proliferator to back up and start accumulating in the PLS, then wait for the belt loop from the PLS to get all the current lenses sprayed. THEN flip it to supply. This makes sure all the lenses that go out into the receivers have the max level of spray.
Second is the splitter that feeds the diamonds into the grav lens assemblers. As is, it will feed kimberlite diamonds and coal diamonds equally. If you don't have kimberlite, it'll take care of itself. If you want to prefer one or the other, set its input priority accordingly.
With that out of the way...this was an exercise in seeing how dense I could pack a planet for a gigacharger. To be completely honest, if I was relying on outside manufacture of batteries, lenses, and proliferator, I could probably get the throughput to break 20,000 batteries by using the blackbox space for more exchangers. But I wanted this one to be as self-sufficient as possible, so I included blackboxes that could supply all the necessary sprays and lenses. I could probably compact the proliferator blackbox down a bit, but eh, it's kinda cool that it rings the tropics.
I went belt-fed on this one for looks, speed and space concerns, as it's far easier to run belts overhead and dip down into an array than it is to jam in a PLS and belts. Gigacharger Six uses PLS to great effect, but it's nowhere near this power-dense. It's also got a fairly large buffer delay due to all the PLS place and minimum-drone-capacity requirements, which can really bite you if it's your first and only gigacharger.
I'm pretty happy with the belt-balancer! Many thanks to pyroinfernia, Maxituz, and doge_kim, as I cribbed heavily off their prints and rebuilt 'em to fit together to get the final product.
For the battery injector, its PLSes are set to supply, while all of the ILS that receive batteries are set to remote-demand/local-storage. Flip one of them to local-demand to inject batteries. (Then turn it off, you don't want to flood the works.)
As for the pilers, the ones that feed empties into the array aren't strictly necessary as the same number of batteries go downrange no matter what. However, since all the exchangers get their batteries via MK1 sorters, de-piling the battery stream makes for faster uptake--more exchangers start charging more quickly, since each grabs only one at a time instead of four. Since gigachargers look way cooler when more exchangers are going at once, de-piling it is.
The output pilers also aren't strictly needed, but they sure do cut down on the number of belts I'd have to weave into those PLS. They do serve as a great indicator of activity, though--if they're all quiet, then there's either no batteries on the belts or the belts are backed up past them.
There's also an output balancer ready to go if you want to divide the batteries (mostly) equally amongst the various ILS. Just turn off the 3-lane connecting belt outputs from the PLS and between each ILS, and turn on the belts going to the balancer. Leave the 3-lanes connecting the last few ILS going, though, they'll take up extras.
The whole array takes quite a good long while to spin up to max power, as lenses have to be made and distributed and there's lots of belts and receivers to fill. Give it a couple of hours once you've flipped the lens-PLS to supply mode. That said, it'll charge batteries at a ~43GW clip even with no lenses, once the receivers get up to max on-time.
Lastly, there's also a neon sign. :) It'll draw yellow and purple cubes from the logistics network to light it up. All the surrounding belts help hide the bits connecting the letters together when viewed from orbit. That ILS also doesn't use cargo stacking in order to cut down on the cubes needed for the sign, which is why its battery belts are routed the way they are.
Feel free to plunk this down and chop out various bits! The polar ray receivers are a good candidate for using elsewhere, as are the various chunks of the input balancer, especially the 3-to-3 balancer right by the battery ILS output. The double-ended battery maker/injector is also pretty nice, as it fits in high-polar areas. The tropical ray receiver lines might also suit as a template for your receiver planets, and the equatorial exchangers are about the most UPS-friendly way I can come up with to feed exchangers--no splitters between each receiver/exchanger!
Make crazy things, engineers!
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- Author: Ambush_Bug
- Collection: No Hazmat Permit
- Game version: 0.9.27.14546
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- Created: over 1 year ago
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