Power - Storage Adapter

[Lycanthus]

I don't know if it's a bug or intended, but I *THINK* I am getting free power usage from the storage adapters. Here's what I have going on.

[Large Battery] > [Branch] > [Switch] > [Branch]+[Splitter]

The large battery is providing output to the first branch which I'm using for other things, and providing the full output to the switch. The switch then powers the second branch which has 9 power to power the splitter for 3 electric furnaces and the rest of the power to power 7 devices (2 conveyers and 5 storage adapters).

So 3 electric furnaces, 2 conveyers, and 5 storage adapters, according to their tooltip descriptions in-game run a total of 16 power.

However, with that switched turned off and none of that being used, the large battery us outputting 28 power. When I turn on the switch that is powering devices that require 16 power, then the large battery only goes up to 39 usage. I'm using devices that require 16 power, but only taking 11 power from the battery.

So I'm wondering if the 5 storage adapters are set to use 0 power.

 

... Or maybe, as I'm taking things apart and running then one at a time, I wonder if the storage adapters while powered on only use the power WHILE transferring things to the conveyer, so we have to pay for the overhead but it's not a constant power usage, only intermittent?

 

Thoughts?

Edited yesterday at 01:17 AM by Lycanthus