Tesla Tower

The Tesla Tower is an HV tier multiblock that wirelessly transmits power to nearby machines, energy hatches, and/or battery buffers equipped with a tesla coil cover. The maximum voltage depends on the tier of the primary tesla windings, the transmitted voltage depends on the tier of the capacitors inside the capacitor hatches, and the maximum amperage depends on the total number of capacitors present. The Tesla Tower's range is infinite but its power cannot cross dimensions. Even without cables there is still a penalty of 1 EU per block per amp transmitted.

The Tesla Tower has only one tiered component. The primary tesla windings determine the maximum voltage output of the machine and therefore must be greater than or equal to the tier of the capacitors in the capacitor hatch. All buses/hatches are limited to the outer casings on the bottom layer of the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are supported for serious power distribution. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure where the projector stack size determines the tier of the primary tesla windings.

The capacitors within the capacitor hatch are also technically tiered components. They determine the transmitted voltage and increase the maximum power output by 1A each, similar to a battery. There can be more than one capacitor hatch, but the capacitors within them must all be the same tier. Otherwise, the lower tier capacitor hatches are burned and voided immediately, including those without any capacitors inside them at all.

Structure

• Controller: Front bottom center
• 128 Tesla Toroid Casing
• 17-33 Tesla Base Casing
• 20 Primary Tesla Windings (Tiered)
• 16 Titanium Frame Box
• 12 Secondary Tesla Windings
• 1+ Capacitor Hatch: Any bottom edge casing
• 1+ Energy Hatch: Any bottom edge casing
• 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any bottom edge casing
• 0+ Input Hatch: Any bottom edge casing

Animation

The Tesla Tower animates electricity arcs to all machines and tesla transceivers receiving power from it. The animation may be cool to watch, but it is not very TPS-friendly. To disable it, navigate to /config/tectech.cfg and set TESLA_VISUAL_EFFECT=false.

The Tesla Tower receives power from energy hatches and stores it in an internal buffer. The size of the internal buffer depends on the number and tier of capacitors inside the capacitor hatches. Each capacitor is capable of storing 512 ticks of power at their respective voltage tier, as seen in the following table. View the current stored energy by right-clicking the controller with a portable scanner, or by connecting it to an industrial information panel.

The Tesla Tower wirelessly transmits power at the same voltage tier as the capacitors inside the capacitor hatches. The capacitors also increase the maximum power output by 1A each, similar to a battery. The Tesla Tower's range is infinite but its power cannot cross dimensions. Even without cables there is still a penalty of 1 EU per block per amp transmitted. Blocking line-of-sight to the Tesla Tower does not affect the power distribution or range in any way.

Singleblock Machines must be equipped with a tesla coil cover to receive power from the Tesla Tower. The cover can go on any side of the machine other than the front and pulls the same voltage as the capacitors. It can also pull as many amps as needed, as long as there are enough capacitors available. The rich edition of the tesla coil cover is identical to the standard one, other than being more expensive to craft and appearing green instead of yellow.

Multiblock Machines must have their energy hatch(es) equipped with a tesla coil cover and rotated UPWARDS to receive power from the Tesla Tower. Again, it pulls the same voltage as the capacitors and as many amps as needed, as long as there are enough capacitors available.

The tesla coil cover also works on battery buffers and pulls up to 2A per battery. Both the batteries and the battery buffer can be a higher voltage than the voltage transmitted if necessary. Lower voltage batteries do not cause explosions but do not receive any power from the Tesla Tower. There are also tesla transceivers which simply combine the battery buffer and cover into one block, but they only go up to IV tier and explode if the voltages do not match--be very careful when upgrading.

The Tesla Tower GUI has several configurable parameters, listed below. The only important one is the transfer radius which can actually be increased beyond the maximum range of the Tesla Tower with no upper limit.

• Hysteresis Low - Specifies the low value of the hysteresis used for power pass (useless, ignore).
• Hysteresis High - Specifies the high value of the hysteresis used for power pass (useless, ignore).
• Transfer Radius - Specifies the maximum range of the Tesla Tower.
• Transceiver Radius - Specifies the maximum range for tesla transceivers specifically (bugged, no effect).
• Cover Radius - Specifies the maximum range for tesla coil covers specifically (bugged, no effect).
• Voltage - Output EU/t. Set to -1 to always use the maximum.
• Current - Output amperage. Set to -1 to always use the maximum.
• Scan Time - Ticks between searches for tesla coil covers and tesla transceivers within range (bugged, no effect).
• Overdrive - Doubles the output EU/t if enabled (1 instead of 0) but there is a 25% loss on all power, in addition to distance loss.