Why is my power at Vulcanus failing?

[wooden oak]

This is the third time I find Vulcanus without power, forcing me to step away from what I was doing, I thought it was not having enough turbines but I dont see the consumption going over the production at any time.. And I noticed the turbines were not getting steam, and apparently their respective chemical plants were not getting their sulphuric acid either.. but I don't see anything wrong with the pipeline.. is there anything I'm missing? it doesn't seem to exceed the length threshold at any time, and it all seems to be because the pump at the sulfuric acid stops performing for whatever reason (even with power, I showed that in the video too)

[celest portal]

for what its worth, you dont have to pump out of the storage tanks. The tanks are like pipes with huge buffers in 2.0. That may help

Could it be that something causes a spike in your power consumption? Like tons of bots suddenly charging at roboports or etc

[tacit pendant]

• Make sure the 1,200 per second fluid limit of pumps is enough for your build. The pumps can be a bottleneck even if pipes cannot be.
• The entire build is prone to death spiral in times of low power. Pumps, chemical plants and pump jacks all need electricity so will produce slower in times of a brown out. Slower production means less power generated which means even lower production until a total blackout, a typical death spiral.
• Sulphuric Acid gysers are prone to depleting, same as crude oil. Make sure they still output enough for your full rated power, and if not you need to source more acid.

[wooden oak]

Damn, I didn't expect pumps to create bottlenecks like that, I thought if a pump was there, all connected pipes after should have full flow as long as it is connected, the whole build is indeed exceeding the 1200/s consumption with 2604/s, but that's assuming everything is consuming at the same time.. though 1464 is just the vital, water and steam, which still exceeds, but not by that much... I think what got me confused was seeing the 60/100 in the pipe contents next to the pump. For now I have made a band-aid of setting a second pump on the other side of that tank exclusively for water and steam, which are not actively consuming that 1464/s so it should be okay moving forward..

Though for future reference, would a config like this effectively give me 3600/s total output?

[grim kiln]

yes, you can always stack pumps to increase flow, this would give you 8400/s

[wooden oak]

That's great to know, thank you all!

[tacit pendant]

You could also build the power near the sulphuric acid and use no pumps at all. Belt in or train in the calcite and power pole out the electricity.