Everyone it's Thumper the Rabid Rabbit
upon completing my component guide
Thought I would get back to making some how-to videos on
various
Builds and setups and first I'm gonna remake one from my old channel
the practical power source guide because it seems to be the most popular one from the old channel and
I've just got a little cleaner and a little more simplified here and it's a good example of how to use
multi type power in this case
I got some solar and I got a couple wind turbines over here how to combine it all together
Incorporate a battery backup and
Be able to use that based on a threshold trigger so that you can power
multiple circuits in your base to run
Whatever you might need
Today, I'll probably use the examples of you know, some doors and some lights and some other stuff
I'm not gonna throw it all up here because the video would get too long, but I want to show you how to craft a
Basic circuit and I've put all the components on the wall here so I can move a little bit quicker
But I'll wire it up for you so you can follow along so
first of all
I'm using route combiners to combine the solar together. That's all on this side. And then I am combining a solar with the wind
We got to combine over there putting the two wind turbines together and bringing them over
And this is a good combination if you can afford or found blueprints for these
Solar is great
Obviously during the day it's it's reliable its predictable wind is awesome because it's usually a lot more than what solar puts out
but it is
Unpredictable, but you do have it available at night and that's actually really good for this particular build example
Because it kind of assumes that you're getting power at night and you can configure how much power you need
Before you switch the battery back up
So I here's what I'm doing. I'm bringing in the main power
Into this display that I've set to pass through all these displays are set to pass through
Just to show how much power is coming through. So these displays are all completely unnecessary
They're just wasting power by eating one up each. So don't use these in your real build
Unless you're really into keeping an eye on what your power is because they just waste power
But I'm using them here because it's going to be easier to demonstrate what's going on
So remember each of these eats up one unit of power
So I'm gonna bring my main power into this branch and this branch
Is where you will configure your threshold to switch to battery
so
the branch output on an electrical branch is
the priority so
This is 250 coming in here. The power will go out the branch first
For whatever, you have it configured to and the leftover will go out the power out. So
This is sort of my main power branch here
then I'm bringing over and drop it into one side of this OR switch and by default it's set to two but let's say
We're gonna need three strings of light or power and the base that are each worth 20 units
So I'm just gonna start by setting this to 60
so now of the 260 coming in we're peeling off 60 this way and
The 200 or so left over goes out the power out. So let's hook it up here. We'll see
Yeah, we got 202 203 left over coming through here
now, this is good because I want leftover power and I'm gonna use this branch to
Split the leftover power
To come this way for battery charging
You really only need a hundred over a hundred doesn't matter on charging a battery
Have a little excess here. I could probably split it and charge two batteries if I wanted to get really crazy
But for the moment, you know, it's not always gonna be 271 the sun's gonna go down the winds gonna die down
So as long as you got a hundred extra coming through here, that's great because then you can charge your battery full speed
So now this is coming into the OR switch and then this is my main power out
So this is the sixty units that I want to use for my various loads
So this I'm gonna call this branch is gonna be load number one
This branch is gonna be load number two and whatever is left over is gonna be load number three
So I got to chain these together
so
Now you got all this power coming in and we got two units going off to branch one two units going off to branch two
And fifty left over I said I wanted these to be 20. So I'm gonna set this branch to 20
and then I'm gonna set this branch to 20 and
They're each using one you can see this a little low because each of these branches
Uses one unit of power and so does this switch so does this display which doesn't really need to be here?
But it is a loss so really I need
64 to make up for the loss of these units here now. I've got 20 units of power on all three of these
so let's say
this
Branch because its first in line, it's the highest priority. So if we drop below 60
This would die first this would die second and this would die last
We shouldn't have that problem in this configuration because we're gonna set it up to have the battery kick in if we drop below 64
But this is your highest priority power
that's that I'd run that to my you know doors with all my guns and stuff behind it because
blowing people up is obviously the most important thing and
Then I'm going to take this branch and run off to some lights with some
planter boxes with a bunch of weed and
Pumpkins and stuff in it cuz you know, I gotta eat and
Then I take the leftover power onto lights because I don't like stubbing my toe in the dark in a dark crappy base
Now you're probably wondering how does the battery get involved here? Well,
This branch up here is taking all this extra power to go charge the battery
But it by default takes a minimum of two off of this electrical branch here, which is the priority
So I'm gonna bring this two units of power over here
Plug it in the side of this pass through
The block pass through this blocker here
a word of advice kids always put a blocker after your battery a blocker that is
Has the active block pass through to block power
Doesn't act as a load so you can see battery's not gonna count down at all
While the blocker is powered on and triggered here
So all that extra power is coming in here and it's charging my battery up
We already got 11 minutes on here and climbing. This is fantastic. So I've got a good battery charge going here
And then I'm gonna bring the blocker output over and this is going to the other side of the OR switch
because the or switch is the beginning of my sort of main power output bus and it has to make a decision between
using battery power and using the live main power input
But if this battery kicks in it's gonna put out a hundred so it's gonna win
So if we turn that battery on
It's gonna it's gonna win in this decision right here the or switch always takes the highest of the two inputs
It doesn't combine them. It takes the highest of the two
So as soon as that battery kicks in and there's a hundred units coming in. It's gonna use the battery now
You're probably wondering what causes the battery to kick in well
earlier, I mentioned that this
Branch is the configured threshold for when the battery kicks in and the reason I said
that is it's going to take 64 first and
then whatever's left over goes up here to charge and
Turn off the battery, but the branch is the priority
So if we drop below
64 units of power here
There's not going to be anything left coming out and so with a left over as it drops is no longer going to have
left over to charge the battery and when it drops below 64
There's not going to be enough left for this branch. And when there's not enough left for this branch boom battery kicks in
so this is the level this number here is the level at which you want your battery to kick in if
Your input power drops below it. So if this drops below 64
That battery is gonna kick in if it gets above 64
it's going to
Send the remaining power through here
which is gonna kick the battery off and
The or switch is gonna say what battery is off and I'm gonna go back to the power coming in from this side
Which should be at least?
64 or higher because that's what you set the branch - so this is your automatic power
battery backup circuit that uses your excess power to charge the battery and
has a
configurable point at which the battery kicks in
Now I'll caution you don't build this circuit to need more than a hundred units
The most you'd ever want to set this to is
99 or probably 98 because then you want your battery to kick in the battery only puts out a hundred
So if you build this circuit to use more than a hundred then you are gonna lose power if you kick over to battery
so
It'll work you could have this be 50 and this be 50 and then your lights are the 20 that's left over
But when your battery kicks in it'll only be a hundred
So only these two circuits will get powered and there won't be anything left over. So this type of
prioritization in
Cascading your circuits works out really well, if it's like you want your first hundred to be battery backed up and the rest doesn't matter
But during the day if you're bringing in two hundred like this then yeah, you can run 150 over here
But be cautious because the more you use for this live circuit
The less that's left over to charge that battery
so if I set this and I say, oh, yeah, I'm gonna use 150 over there and I'm gonna set this to
fifty for my high priority circuit and
Another 50 for my grow-op and then I got 45 left over for my lights. Whoo. Yeah, we're kicking butt now, man
We got lots of extra power, but you only got 39 left
So and of that you lose another one for the branch and two for the branch out. So I'm only sending
Shoot is dropped again. I'm down to 32, 30
now I'm only charging my battery at one third of
Its maximum speed because I'm only putting 30 units instead of a hundred now that may not matter to you
Because you may not use this battery very often if you've got some good wind power or whatever
then you may have enough live power to run your circuits most of the time and
All you need is a little bit of a trickle charge to add some juice to this battery
Maybe that's all you need. Great good for you
The more you put outta here the faster you're gonna charge that battery up to
100 units after that doesn't really matter that much anymore
If you don't believe me this works
I'll just cut the input power here and boom we swap over 98 units coming in here the horse which says ah,
You win more power
50 for this it would be 50 for this but you know
I've got some extra crap and you're eating up power like these displays and then there's nothing left over for the lights
But I got my power from a gun doors, and I've got most of my power for my grow-op
And then of course when the wind kicks up and the Sun comes up and we get over a hundred and fifty again
then it's gonna switch back over to here OR switch always picks the better of the two inputs, so
Not only will it kick off the battery. But even if there is still power coming in here in this drop down
And it dropped below your 150 input
it's gonna turn the battery on but it's still gonna use this input power because this will be a hundred and
This would be a hundred 50. So this is the better source, which is kind of a waste
It means you're running your battery while you still have plenty of input power coming in
But hey, that's how it works. If you want to use a prioritized string with a bunch extra juice
That's why I say this is a little more practical if you're keeping this whole circuit under 100
I'm just gonna set this back to
64 and that would make a whole lot more sense
If you need more than a hundred units of power on this main circuit just do all this again
Have two battery backup systems
Of a hundred units each one for this battery one for another battery that can have a hundred units
and you can take this power coming in and put it through a splitter so that if you've got two
Hundred coming in than half of it goes to this battery backup system and half goes to your other battery backup system. So
Play around with it
so, this is your
Practical power main power bus with a battery backup that can supply up to 100 units of power
When you've got it coming in or when it needs to switch the battery
This is not a day/night trigger system all I'll do another video for the day/night trigger
Later, so hopefully this helps if you're just getting started
You don't have to have wind power. You can use all solar for this
I know it's cheaper and easier to get but you're guaranteed to switch to your battery at night there
So I hope that helps
Good luck. Have fun. Don't suck
