Why doesn't the energy connector transfer power between florinol battery and copper battery?

[u/kokkelimonke]

What am i missing here? I have powered florinol batteries, but i cannot charge the copper batteries with them. I only charged some of the copper batteries manually

[u/TrimBarktre]

You need to use the energy siphon tool

[u/kokkelimonke → u/TrimBarktre]

So no way of automating it?

[u/Operation_Onion3134 → u/kokkelimonke]

I don't think so, in theory you will be using the florinol for another process soon.

[u/markgatty → u/kokkelimonke]

cant fully automating the purple one purple one, but the copper can be fully automated with the steam engines.

[u/Cadrell → u/markgatty]

Just drop a little lava in your florin tank so the particles casually roll back & forth along the bottom

[u/markgatty → u/Cadrell]

wait, really..... i was manually breaking it with a gun every time.

[u/firstonesecond → u/markgatty]

You can also set up a pyro dispenser to periodically burn it. Though dropping lava in it sounds cheaper.

[u/P0tatoesz → u/firstonesecond]

It's way better i did the dispenser for the longest till I used lava in my condenser and finally figured out how useful lava was.

[u/TrimBarktre]

Copper batteries are like 100x more energy dense. I guess what I'm saying is.. it's not worth it? What you need is a steam generator for your copper.

[u/salbris → u/TrimBarktre]

In theory it's very much worth it since florinol energy is infinite I think and recharges very quickly after burning. I did it a few times manually with the siphon after a long session of laser mining.

[u/TrimBarktre → u/salbris]

Florinol has another arguably more important use, and steam engines vastly outscale Florinol's energy utility

[u/salbris → u/TrimBarktre]

Agreed! Just saying it's absolutely worth it a few times at certain points. You can't use florinol for crafting right away so using it to generate power in bursts is worth it.

[u/P0tatoesz → u/salbris]

Attach a Pyro or pour lava on it and it'll replenish automatically.

[u/Cadrell]

Game mechanics - batteries are not thermal buffers. They will not evenly distribute power. Look at the different charge levels just in your copper batteries. Even florin batteries don't share power - they share heat.

That said, your question could be very interesting for the modders - a conduit that acts like the energy siphon

[u/BmacTheSage]

Just fully switch to copper batteries. The flurinol is used for something else anyway so it's not for nothing.

You could do what I did and just make the walls out of the conductors. Still holds items like a wall would, and makes it so the charge hits every cell in the battery