Funnily enough I asked many of the questions you answer in this video to my team this wipe. This was a fantastic video, welly informative and well explained!

Thanks for this video, Benjamin. I have seen a lot of your work lately, and you do good stuff. Keep it up, soldier! *salutes*

It's turbin time.

holy cow so much useful information in one video. i really loved the solar panel output explanation. the battery info too omg

You can connect the power sources to a counter and set it to show passthrough before sending it to the battery. That would make it way easier to check the values and you would not need to run around with the wire tool. I do this all the time so I have an idea of how my power sources are doing over time like for example it can show you a badly placed solar panel that may get shaded during the day. Nice video thanks m8.

thank you very much, I have been wondering why my stuff was draining, now I know ty ty ty

Thanks for explaining man! Good video

Thank you for your service. Solar > Windmill gang gang

Awesome vid Very informative

Thanks for this!

Passed 126rWm, it's worth having considering Uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Instead of getting power to the battery, you can get it directly from the source, sending the surplus back to the battery.¨ I won't go into details, but below 100 rWm, it's not worth it.

Nice video, can you do a video on stacking lots of windmills together, I play on a monthly wipe and often have 40-50 turbines and i dont know how I should be stacking them up, so I spread them apart quite far but the upkeep is ridiculous - I couldn't find any videos on this. Thanks

sick video

You can find a lot of solar panels from farming barrels/boxes.

This is cool, but i like to go somewhere in the middle. I like to have 1 wind turbine about 7-8 floors off the ground, with 5 or so solar panels feeding in the additional power.

Please make a new video ! I miss your videos :(

i really want to build a base inspired by u but its hard with the upkeep when i have to leave for 2+ days how do u handle it ur upkep

Wind turban :)

For me i just use 2 turbines at low height its just easier to get up there and wire without dying and less upkeep.

I like experiments

what servers do you usually play?

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

Gringer's Solo, or Rusty Vanilla :)

hey why its saying power output is 144 on large battery, when the max output is 100 ?

@BenjaminPlaysRust

Жыл бұрын

It's just a glitch -- sometimes the previous number you looked at will display for a moment when looking at a new item.

Where the new videos at

Please I need to know what server this is or the IP or something

What sort of testing did you do to account for wind variance accurately over time? Also I don't think equating windmills to that much tech trash and hq in solar panels is really a comparison. Windmills are way more efficient. Maybe for small group teams with a couple turrets it is.

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

I ran the windmills for a few hours and noted the rWh on each battery at the end, which allows an average power output calculation. I have a spreadsheet lol

@NoPushN

2 жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminPlaysRust are you sure your numbers are the raw numbers or what you'd get in the battery itself "after tax". They don't seem to be correct in the raw amount. Also sanctuary really isn't the best place to be testing windmills especially for only a few hours.

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoPushN They are the numbers after tax, but you're right about Sanctuary -- I just replicated the experiment on my own vanilla server and my results are off by about 5-6w per wind turbine. Nothing material enough to re-record, but I appreciate the deep dive :)

@NoPushN

2 жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminPlaysRust right so if they're after tax (you don't indicate raw or otherwise) and immediately after you talk about what the battery needs to charge you send the wrong message.

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoPushN The video is directionally correct. The point being that higher wind turbines do produce more power, and that the power increases linearly as height increases linearly. The power tax explanation was not intended to have anything to do with the prior segment but I can see how them being back to back could be confusing!

WOW first time I've been first but I'm not going to be that guy and yell out first... Without even watching the video I'm assuming from the title you're not answering the most pertinent question on solar panel facing direction for optimal electrical pixie generation... I've heard if you're below the equator you have to do aim at North and if you're above it aim it South, and I've also heard aim at the direct center of the map. Thoughts? OMG 😃😃😃 FIRST 🥇!!!!!

@_____mh

2 жыл бұрын

Okay you answered my question in the video I take back everything I said above! SECOND!!! 🥈

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

Aiming at the center is the best in general, though if you have lots of panels you can aim them in a cone direction towards the center for slightly higher output :)

Every since that muppet 'Rust Academy' sold himself out to make utter garbage fake raid videos, there's been a giant hole in the Rust video community (for someone who does stuff like THIS! - Someone who methodically, scientifically, tests everything we need to know - brings the answers to questions the lack of FP Instructions cause!). Are you that guy?! ↑ Comment for algorithm + 👍 'd #OldManPaxus Rating: ☆☆☆ ½

Damn, timing of your video is like the worst coincidence for me. I literally just finalized an infographic chart recently with all the proper data on turbines (been published in BB) and started on making a video I've been postponing for quite a while now sadly, basically I invented a testing setup that would allow for very precize measurements and I've been running that test for 140+ hours in total. Not only that, I verified it using a different testing approach as well. It also been performed on a very stable private build server (unlike Sanctuary nowadays) in vanilla environment basically. First versions of those tests were published like 6 months ago in EZ building discord and RGB discords. Some of your results are way off and I don't agree on your conclusions. Using certain tricks you can basically build 4x8 floor towers for the price of a single square one, each for just about 1200 stone. My fault for postponing a vid for that long, I guess

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

I found your results on Discord. My numbers are similar to yours and would paint the same picture at the macro level. Major props to you for running an extended experiment.

@JackDisturber

2 жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminPlaysRust I don't agree because 10-15w difference is significant; but the most important factor is that your comparison between wind & solar power sources is unfair, since you scale the amount of solar panels, but for some reason don't do the same with turbines. So arguments about having a single huge 15 story tower that can be seen from low orbit and attract raiders aren't accurate. You slap 2 turbines on just 2nd floor (even if you have a solo small base), you get 122w after the eff. tax, they'll be 3+ times cheaper on HQM, require none techtrash, no 1000+ frags on root combiners alone, they're fireproof currently (with solars a single incen rocket shot from a mini passing by can cause a lot of issues), easier to wire, and so on. Solar panels are less reliable because sun positioning actually changes with time and it will differ later in a wipe, its not really as simple as "point em to center of the map". Hopefully I'll try to save some motivation to finish my video, I literally spent a month last summer on figuring all this out

@BenjaminPlaysRust

2 жыл бұрын

@@JackDisturber I appreciate you taking the time. My figures are only different from yours by 5-6w though, not 10-15w. I'm using the usable energy calculations from the wind turbines (though I fail to mention this in the video). I don't feel like I say that everyone should use solars in this video or give any kind of unfair comparison -- I even mention that it's really up to your own base design and preferences, and each has its own pros and cons.