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Ok I ran to my wind generator then over to my Mineral extractors. Their energy levels were zero, so I deposited some power, went to turn it on and rcvd a message "No power present" I just deposited 200 but the total shows 000???? And my power in my inventory shows less 200. This happened several times to me last night. Yes I did submit a in game ticket for this.

Anyone else having this problem???

Never heard of this before... wait a little bit and see if it appears? Sometimes there are time delays on things, I almost had a heart attack when I redeeded my large home but the deed waited ten minutes to appear in my pack. If that doesn't work... wait for the ticket to go through I guess :/

Its a bug, what happens is, unless you go into the harvester control panel before you deposit power, it catches itself up, ive had over 1000 power vanish into a med harvester, but on the up sideim pretty sure itinstantly mines whatever you're harvesting when you put in the power as if it never ran out. When you go into the control panel it seems to reset itself to 0 power.

I think I have seen what mindtorture is describing, but interpreted it differently.

It seemed to me that I have had a harvester with a negative power balance. When I put in 600 power, the total was only 400. But the harvester was still running, and had mined as much as if it had never run out of power.

I didn't think it was a bug exactly, but more like getting to the parking meter before you got a ticket. I got the power up to date before the system realized the machine was out. It encourages me to add first and check status later. I also think I have seen similar effects on maint.

Only part of the interesting semi-random phenomna that make running harvesters a mini-game instead of just a mechanical endeavor. I call it a feature not a bug.

Were the wind generators running before? If they were running with zero power when you got to them they would have a deficit. This deficit would consume the power you deposited.

To avoid this go to "operate machinery" and extract all the resources before depositing power.

Yea, I had the same thing that Haruspex described happen to me.

Harvester showed 0, deposited 800... "power reserves at 780", something close to that. I'm sure this is a bug, but the bright side of this one is you get a little padding on the power time, you just have to pay in the end.