Dutc PowerDeck

Dutc Power Deck

All-in-one power management + monitoring for your ship or base.

Automatically manages your backup power AND gives you clean, graphic status displays on any LCD or cockpit screen. One programmable block, zero timers needed.

⚡ What it does

• Batteries drop to 20% → hydrogen engines & reactors switch ON
• Batteries reach 90% → they switch OFF again
• Saves hydrogen and uranium — backups only burn fuel when actually needed
• Thresholds fully configurable at the top of the script

🖥️ 6 display types — just tag your LCD names

• [BATT] — battery icon with colour fill, charge %, in/out power, time to full/empty, backup status
• [POWER] — every power producer listed with on/off status dot and live output
• [DRAIN] — every block using power, sorted biggest first, with bars and MW values so you can see what to shut off
• [noparse][H2][/noparse] — hydrogen total gauge + per-tank fill bars
• [O2] — oxygen total gauge + per-tank fill bars
• [GAS] — hydrogen AND oxygen together on one screen

Long lists scroll automatically page by page, so nothing gets cut off.

🛠️ Setup (30 seconds)

[olist] [*] Paste script into a Programmable Block → Check Code → OK. It runs by itself. [*] Add a tag to any LCD's name, e.g. LCD Panel [BATT] [*] Done. Displays update live. [/olist]

💺 Cockpit screens

Multi-screen blocks use an index: [noparse]Cockpit [BATT:0] [POWER:1] [H2:2] [O2:3][/noparse] — one cockpit can run all displays at once.

🎛️ Extras

• Toolbar arguments: on = force backups on, off = force off, auto = automatic mode
• Add [ignore] to any block's name to exempt it from control/monitoring
• DRAIN_TOP and DRAIN_MIN_KW settings to filter the [DRAIN] list (e.g. top 20 only, or hide everything under 5 kW)
• INCLUDE_DOCKED option to also monitor ships docked via connectors (off by default)
• Works with modded LCDs, cockpits, engines and tanks (anything using vanilla block types)
• Solar panels and wind turbines are shown on [POWER] but never switched off

Requirements

Programmable Block + at least one battery. In-game scripts must be enabled in world settings (Experimental mode).

Changelog

v1.5 — New screen look shared by all DUTC scripts: header with hazard stripes, striped rows and page scrollbars. New icon and gallery images. v1.4 — Time to full/empty now shows days for long autonomy grids, plus internal cleanup. Suggested by Fisherman_56. v1.3 — [DRAIN] filters: DRAIN_TOP (top N only) and DRAIN_MIN_KW (hide tiny draws). Hidden blocks counted and summed on screen. Requested by Robie. v1.2 — New [DRAIN] screen: every block sorted by power draw, biggest first. Requested by The Burger Buster. v1.1 — Fixed docked ships taking over each other's LCDs. Script now only manages its own grid (subgrids included). New INCLUDE_DOCKED option. v1.0 — Initial release.