# Wind turbine car not charging battery

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [February 16, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810 "2019-02-16T02:10:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![duhuh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/duhuh/32/5686_2.png) [@duhuh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/duhuh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/1 "2019-02-16T02:10:49Z")

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Wind turbine is not charging the batteries. Not even a tiny bit. Feb 13 version. Did we change wind turbine recently?

Car:  
 ![wind_turbie_car](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/6/6899332e5d23d6ed371a9e07729c1eb1d45a99f6.png)

Map:  
 ![map](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/a/aaa5a08d5ee98c27db3523f34689b6de32856932.png)

Car setup:

 ![car_setup](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/e/e2be670b09de8142848035875a9eb93e19ce3ade.png)

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**Author:** ![kuros](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kuros/32/1788_2.png) [@kuros](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kuros)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/2 "2019-02-16T02:51:19Z")

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What’s the weather been like? Wind Turbine returns is based on how windy it is, and I believe that has recently been adjusted.

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**Author:** ![duhuh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/duhuh/32/5686_2.png) [@duhuh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/duhuh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/3 "2019-02-16T02:53:11Z")

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The wind turbines have not charged the battery for 3 days. It was raining last night…

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**Author:** ![TheMightyHercules](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/themightyhercules/32/340_2.png) [@TheMightyHercules](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheMightyHercules)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/4 "2019-02-16T04:39:16Z")

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Perhaps it’s because there’s a roof where the wind turbines are?

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**Author:** ![duhuh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/duhuh/32/5686_2.png) [@duhuh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/duhuh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/5 "2019-02-16T04:40:31Z")

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Wind turbines can’t work on roof?  
It is definitely raining now. But the wind turbines still not charging the batteries.  
 ![raining](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/8/8e32dfc80f4f6946c55a6e44db7182a6679d7b4c.png)

Removed roof. not charging.

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**Author:** ![duhuh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/duhuh/32/5686_2.png) [@duhuh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/duhuh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/6 "2019-02-16T06:33:47Z")

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How to see wind in the debug menu?

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**Author:** ![duhuh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/duhuh/32/5686_2.png) [@duhuh](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/duhuh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/7 "2019-02-16T07:24:53Z")

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Tested with debug menu. It didn’t work. Made github issue:

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/28219>

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**Author:** ![dpwb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dpwb/32/2609_2.png) [@dpwb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dpwb)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/8 "2019-02-16T23:20:41Z")

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Fix PR’ed , thanks for logging an issue.

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/28229>

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**Author:** ![DannyBoi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dannyboi/32/3683_2.png) [@DannyBoi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DannyBoi)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/9 "2019-02-16T23:44:40Z")

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Actually I had somewhat similar issue, sorry for offtopic. I used to charge my batteries with a foot crank and 3 alternators. It worked perfectly in my last playthrough, but suddenly stopped. When I try to control the “vehicle” the log tells me that "the engine died’, and I cannot do anything from that point.  
The contraption has no wheels. It is a stationary power generator.  
I’m not sure if this is a bug, so I decided to ask first.

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**Author:** ![mlangsdorf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mlangsdorf/32/2462_2.png) [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/10 "2019-02-17T01:16:01Z")

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So until about 3 months ago, foot pedals pedaled by a normal human were providing about 15 HP, and you could attach a stack of alternators with 1 HP, 2 HP, and 3 HP of load and merrily pedal away.

Then some code monkey with delusions of grandeur decided to go “oh realizm!” and cut the power output of foot pedal to a more reasonable 2 HP, of which you can use about 0.75 HP without a huge amount of effort. So now a normal human can’t run an alternator stack, and mostly can only power a single motorbike alternator or possibly a single car alternator if your character is pretty strong.

There’s now a bicycle alternator that only requires 0.1 HP, so you can attach that, but it also only produces 36W (compared to ~400W for a motorbike alternator). You can find them on electric bicycles and sometimes in bike shops.

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**Author:** ![DannyBoi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dannyboi/32/3683_2.png) [@DannyBoi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DannyBoi)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wind-turbine-car-not-charging-battery/18810/11 "2019-02-17T12:56:21Z")

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Thanks a lot!  
I will miss the old one-man powerstation though.