One solution is to put a diode on the mains line, but won’t this cause a drop in voltage and about a 5% loss? My load can be up to 3A, so I’ll need quite a hefty diode. However if I now put the relay on the 12v mains, it will only switch over once the load caps have depleted, and after that any caps on the 5v regulator will also take a little time to discharge, there will be a noticeable switch over. The ideal situation is that the switch over is not noticeable and I have put some fairly large caps at the load to absorb spikes as well as hold the load while the switch is switched over. The relay can be powered by mains, thus when that power fails, it will automatically fail over to batter. In addition, they can process some non-ore blocks such as Moonrock. Smelters have a better conversion ratio of ore to ingots (better than 2:1) and typically produce useful byproducts when smelting. I have been considering using a relay to automatically switch over. Smelters Smelters are similar to the furnaces found in vanilla Starbound they require power to run, however. I am using a toggle switch to manually switch between mains and batter when the power fails. I am currently running a system where I have 12v mains and 12v battery as power sources.
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