RUST: Large Base / Clan Electricity Setup (Read Description)

[@aboveaveragebrett]

Ain't no way you edited out going to turn off fire alarm and not just remove it altogether. Bout gave me a damn heart attack. Great Video btw!

[@danielb3113]

Incoming air drop! Thx's for the electric info

[@vaporwavecat]

Very cool

[@Busyier]

I had a heartattack from that firealarm 😂

[@jay-ar6593]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it inefficient to combine output of multiple batteries because active usage would be 100 on all of the batteries if your circuit requires 100 or more power? So if you had 3 large batteries, so 300 power to work with, and say your circuit only required 250 power then all 3 batteries would say 100 active usage even though only 250 is needed. In this case, it would be better to have 3 separate circuits with 1 battery each to show true active usage on the batter. Although this isn't always possible in some bases to have alot of circuits.

[@auklin7079]

it does get more 'efficient' in a sense closer to the 100 mark you are, so 280 is more efficient than 301 (ignoring RC's). But multiple circuits have their own downsides, which is often wasted power and time to build. While it is definitely a downside, it is a very small one, and very manageable.

[@gameexpert1533]

yo man great vid

[@Nickjack0310]

I'm sorry but wouldnt it be less vulnerable to have each battery split in the base with its own branches? This way you dont have a single spot that you can destroy (the nih core) and shut down all your turrets

[@auklin7079]

It's always a tradeoff. The benefit of the nih core is efficiency and power source redundancy. If they blow up up your batteries, your power sources can take over. The system I think you are describing would make your batteries a single point of failure. It depends on your base design, and how you plan to continue playing if your base get's raided. Usually your electrical is pretty secured in your base. If they manage to blow into your core, you probably already lost the raid.

[@Nickjack0310]

@@auklin7079 usually in big online raids they just spam your core with rockets, and then they start breaching in your compound which could still have the turrets active if batteries are well spread out Example: they take down one of your batteries on the side they’re breaching, if you have 3 batteries (or even 6 in bigger bases) you’d still have respectively 2/3 or 5/6 of your turrets active

[@Nickjack0310]

@@auklin7079 usually what i do is to just put the branches in each battery room and then wire them to the turrets to keep them safe then i take the extra power from each battery, combine it in my core and use it to power the utilities (furnaces, sorting, lights, etc)