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Induction - Wireless Battery Charger (WIP)
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Induction - Wireless Battery Charger (WIP)

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Description
Have you ever made a small battery-powered drone and had no Idea how to charge it? No need to look further: The Induction Charger charges Batteries around it - wirelessly!

This comes at a small price however. The Block itself needs some Superconductors so you need a good source of Gold. Here are some other stats to consider:

- The maximum range in 25 meter / 10 large blocks by default
- For every meter that the battery is away from the carger there is a powerloss of 0.5%
- Only 20 batteries can be charged at once - if there are more in range 20 random batteries will be picket each second
- The batteries will no be charged any further if they have more (percentual) charge than the charger
- The maximum output of 20MW is equaly split between all batteries - if one is already full the other batteries will still not get more power
- Batteries that belong to the same grid will not be charged
- All this values can be changed in a config file inside of your save/storage folder


Im currently using the battery Model for the block.

Copyright
Since more and more of my Mods are being copied without any attribution I will from now on flag any unauthorized copies with a DMCA. I'm sorry, that it has come to this but it gets really annoying if you join a Server and the owner claims MY work as his own without even realizing that I'm the original author.
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MrFox 12 Sep @ 3:24pm 
more inamges? like the block name and such things
Bodyboarder2528 21 May, 2024 @ 9:07pm 
Does this still work?
Calmaria 18 Jun, 2023 @ 8:55am 
Great little mod, Thank you... I wonder if its possible to charge my suit if i am in range ;)
Sadragos  [author] 9 Feb, 2022 @ 7:13am 
See it as a sender and all batteries on other grids in its range are receivers. You would simply waster power if you would carger your drone batteries... with the power from the drone batteries.
Malpherian 8 Feb, 2022 @ 6:28pm 
You state this does not charge batteries on the same grid. Does this mean if you put this on your drone it wont charge its batteries?

Or do you need to land your drone on this (with it attached to a separate grid for it to charge?

I guess I am not understanding the point of this (Or how it works) if it can't charge batteries on the same grid....
Sadragos  [author] 12 Jan, 2022 @ 7:13am 
Not at the Moment as I'm taking a break from SE. However I highly suggest the Tethers Mod as it has similar mechanics to charge Batteries without the need for a connector.
[RTB] Sarianos 12 Jan, 2022 @ 1:02am 
@Sadragos Do you have any plans to refine or flesh out this mod?
Sadragos  [author] 20 Feb, 2021 @ 6:42am 
@Rantalunta Yes, this Mod is in fact a WIP just to proove that it is possible and was thrown together in a few minutes actually. It was not planned to make this a "big mod" or anything :)

The copyright thing I've added to all my public mods. I've spend day working on Tiered Tech Blocks (the mod that was copied over and over without attribution) can be easily identified as I used a special naming convention inside the sbc and created every Icon myself - both of which was used - with the same file structure etc. It was a clear copy without doubt - even if it was an older version, that does not make it better.

To be clear: I've absolutely no problem if someone creates an alternate version of my mods for personal use (unlisted / friends only) or even for public use. I've always only asked for the proper attribution. Unfortunatly only about 20% of the copies do that....
Rantalunta 20 Feb, 2021 @ 6:24am 
I dont want to reduce your acomplishment, since you have learned how to do this and spent a good time creating and testing. All without payment. For people who dont have the time or wish to get into modding themselves. And hopefully for fun :)

All the credit for this goes to you. Thx for this mod.

PS: I play mostly singleplayer and have no server, nor do i publish mods from other people, so i am not that guy.
Rantalunta 20 Feb, 2021 @ 6:24am 
Regarding the copycat: have you looked at the code? Did he copy it?

I think this mod could easily be reproduced from scratch by a decent modder in a day. You have a few checks for nearby grids, some calculus to manipulate the battery blocks, some logic to decide which to pick - no rocket science imho.
Also the idea of wireless charging or power transmitting. There are phones charged wireless, Nicola Tesla had ideas about it and there are several mods for SE, here is one from 2015
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=584639195 which involve wireless power stuff. So here also nothing revolutionary new.

So a person _could_ create this on his/her own and put it on a server and claim credit for it.
Without even knowing you made something similiar.

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