Powering a Jump Gate - Geocube101/Iota-Modular-Jump-Gates GitHub Wiki

Power Requirements

Jump gates use power based on three factors:

  • Gate Size - The number of drives attached to the gate
  • Waypoint Distance - The distance between the gate's jump node and the selected destination
  • Jump Mass - The combined mass of all objects within the jump space

Increasing the gate size, decreasing the distance, or decreasing the mass of objects to jump will all reduce the power to jump.

As a result, larger gates can also jump farther.

Power Calculations

There are a number of equations used to calculate how much energy a gate consumes when jumping.

See Desmos - Gate Power Estimates(https://www.desmos.com/calculator/fqtqvdwk8v) for an interactive graph on calculating gate power.

A listing of all variables are given below:

  • D_i - The ideal distance of this gate (in meters). The distance at which this gate's power factor is 1
  • D_ik - The ideal distance of this gate (in kilometers)
  • G_e - The gate distance scale exponent as specified in your config file
  • D_50 - The max jump gate 50 distance as specified in your config file
  • R_d - The distance ratio of this gate
  • P_t - The calculated power multiplier
  • P_nkw - The calculated unit power required for jump (in kilowatts per kilogram)
  • P_kw - The total required power for the specified jump (in kilowatts)
  • D_m - The minimum allowed jump distance as specified in your config file
  • C_d - The drive count. This is the number of drives that make up your gate
  • D - The distance between the gate and the gate's endpoint (in meters)
  • P_q - The gate power falloff factor as specified in your config file
  • P_e - The gate power factor exponent as specified in your config file
  • P_kpk - The gate kilowatt per kilogram as specified in your config file
  • M_kg - The mass (in kilograms) to jump

Power Drain Stages

When jumping, jump gates draw power in a certain order defined below:

  1. Drive Power - The gate drains as much power as possible from its drives' internal buffers
  2. Capacitor Power - If the drive buffers were insufficient, the gate will attempt to draw the remaining power from all available capacitors
  3. Grid Power - If the required power has still not been met, the gate will draw power directly from the host grid over 3 seconds
  4. Failure - If at any point over the last 3 seconds, any drive failed to draw the necessary power, the gate will fail the jump

Jump Gate Controller Power Listing Breakdown