MarsMond Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 The idea is it to have a remote controled item that can be placed on/instead of wires, which can toggle whether power does flow through the wire or not. It would allow a new type of mapping, where you would need to juggle your power for the station, by either powering every area, but having to micromanage every piece of equipment, to not totally drain the potential power, or have a centrally controled wirenet, where you can enable/disable areas. Maybe also do it with substation smess, where every department gets that charged, and then distributed into the APCs, which would allow to use the power from one department to boost another, to have the Star Trek feeling "Transfer life support to shields". Another use would be as remote wirecutting/mending on doors. Currently, you can remotely pulse wires with signallers, but not cut the wire, which does limit your options a bit. It would also be nice as a mediator between two assembly items, a remote (de)activated mine would be possible that. Grenade with the ignition connected to the motion sensor with the relay, and you can remotely toggle it. Or if you have remote controled bombs, two people would need to authenticate it, EoC, which should get paroled, HoS says tracking+chem implant wouldn't cut it, they implant such a bomb into them, the code for the relay is only known to the Magistrate/Captain, or only accessable, if it has a fancy console to control, so they can authorise the "remote execution", and the HoS can activate it afterwards. There also are two potential activation options, one beeing with the normal remote signaller frequency and code system, or a console similar to the central atmospherics computer, probably with diffrent levels of access/password protection. It could also get both systems, with a toggle on the relay itself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sothangel Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 This would be really good for away missions, the power management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeykins Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 So switches. Sounds good to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) Depends, shadey. If these are remotely controllable, they would be aptly called contactors due to their high load switching capability. A relay is designed route a signal or power from one path to another, and meant for low power actuation. In a way, these are both switches, but with electromagnetic control components. Edited March 25, 2017 by Anticept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeykins Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 If there's only 3 volts in the line, wouldn't a contactor just be a switch? *honk* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vissy Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Supporting this. Sounds lovely! Having remote options being limited to pulsing only was baffling me for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bxil Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Congratulations! You are now a necromancer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vissy Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Bxil said: Congratulations! You are now a necromancer! Ah, thank you! But I'm only learning. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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