energy_harvester

Vars
PN	cached powernet, assigned when attached to a wirenet with a powernet
accumulated_power	amount of power consumed by the harvester, incremented every tick and reset every budget cycle
input_energy	energy inputted into machine
last_accumulated_power	last amount of energy transmitted before being reset by budget cycle, so CE can check if his engine modifications are making more power
last_payout	last payout recieved, so CE can gleefully rub his hands every time the paycheck comes in
last_tick	stores last REALTIMEOFDAY tick. SSEconomy runs off of that, don't see why this one shouldn't too
manual_power_setting	manual power setting to limit the maximum draw of the machine
manual_switch	manual on/off switch
Procs
attackby	Standard checks for connecting a machine to an open cable node
calculateMoney
connect_to_network	links this to SSeconomy so it can be added to the budget cycle calculations for when a mapper connects it to the power room roundstart
disconnect_from_network
payout
process

Var Details

var
PN
– /datum/powernet

cached powernet, assigned when attached to a wirenet with a powernet

var
accumulated_power
–

amount of power consumed by the harvester, incremented every tick and reset every budget cycle

var
input_energy
–

energy inputted into machine

var
last_accumulated_power
–

last amount of energy transmitted before being reset by budget cycle, so CE can check if his engine modifications are making more power

var
last_payout
–

last payout recieved, so CE can gleefully rub his hands every time the paycheck comes in

var
last_tick
–

stores last REALTIMEOFDAY tick. SSEconomy runs off of that, don't see why this one shouldn't too

var
manual_power_setting
–

manual power setting to limit the maximum draw of the machine

var
manual_switch
–

manual on/off switch

Proc Details

attackby
(/obj/item/I, /mob/user, params)

Standard checks for connecting a machine to an open cable node

proc
calculateMoney
()

Computes money reward for power transmitted. Balancing goes here.
- Uses a piecewise function with three defined thresholds and three separate formulas. First linear formula instead of logarithmic so that you don't make
- a not insignificant amount of money by charging it with 300W. The other two formulas scale logarithmically and are designed to be balanced against extreme
- engine setups such as rad-dupe SMs and fusion TEGs.

proc
connect_to_network
()

links this to SSeconomy so it can be added to the budget cycle calculations for when a mapper connects it to the power room roundstart

Locates a power node on the turf the harvester is on, then caches a reference to its powernet and queues up in processing
- Taken from obj/machinery/power which has it natively, but this is an obj/item

proc
disconnect_from_network
()

Disconnects from the powernet and sets cached powernet reference to null, then takes it out of processing queue
- Taken from obj/machinery/power which has it natively, but this is an obj/item

proc
payout
()

Actually sends money to the engineering budget. Called exclusively by the SSEconomy subsystem in [economy.dm][/code/controllers/subsystem/economy.dm].
- Resets accumulated power to 0 and archives payout received and power generated.

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process
()

Checks if machine works or is still attached to a power node, shuts itself down if nonfunctional and takes itself out of processing queue
- If functional, sucks up all the excess power from the powernet and adds it to the accumulated_power var
- Uses REALTIMEOFDAY since that's what SSEconomy runs off. If using regular tick time, a lag spike will slow down the rate of power absorption and thus the money output.

Energy Harvesting Module /obj/item/energy_harvester

Vars

Procs

Var Details

var PN – /datum/powernet

var accumulated_power –

var input_energy –

var last_accumulated_power –

var last_payout –

var last_tick –

var manual_power_setting –

var manual_switch –