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Burner inserters are stock, I didn't realize the fuel leech was now stock. It didn't used to be. And the ability to slowly grab fuel without any source of power is definitely mod. And the mod can leech fuel it's not actually handling--a burner inserter pulling from a furnace will take fuel from the furnace for it's own operation.

I'm just saying what's the need for a gap between on and off? How does the bounce harm anything in the game? Simply put the non-critical stuff behind combinators that will switch off at x% of power. Real world machinery wouldn't like that but the game factories don't care. Nor do the refineries--in your oil case, plonk down a tank of heavy oil, turn on the crackers when it's above a certain level.

by shagie280 days ago|

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The fuel leach has been that way for a long time.

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Burner_inserter&ol... (edit from 2016)

> Since v0.10.0, any Fuel items picked up by a burner inserter will also be used to power the inserter. This makes it useful for:

> Automatically loading Gun turrets from a Transport belt, where one side of the belt is filled with magazines and the other with Coal.

> Filling Boilers with Coal. This has the advantage that they will continue working even if the power fails. This is not the case for electrically powered inserters.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Version_history/0.10.0#0.10.0

> Burner inserter will use item with fuel value for itself when it has empty inventory.

0.10.0 was released 2014.

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The flickering isn't a problem (though a high frequency flicker can caused the power chart to be difficult to read).

A consistent drain on power that is causing capacitor levels to drop below some threshold suggests that certain things should be turned off before the problem becomes cascading when capacitor supply drops to 0.

by LorenPechtel280 days ago|

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Except that in many cases the "consistent" drain is simply night. (Or, day, on Fulgora.) Other than making the chart easier to read what's the case where a 50%/75% trigger is superior to a straight up enable if > 50%?

And apparently I misunderstood the mod, it leeches from things it could pick up but doesn't. It was probably written before it became stock and thus contained some out of date text.