Редактирование: Guide to construction (раздел)

== Power Wires==

Power wires ([[Engineering_items#Cable_Coil|cable coils]]) [[File:CableCoils.png]] are available from autolathes, yellow toolboxes, engineering vending [[machines]] or scattered about the station's maintenance-, construction- and storage-areas.

*Wires can be electrified if connected to a power net (a charged [[Engineering_items#SMES_Cell|SMES]] or [[Guide_to_construction#APC|APC]] is attached to the wire), and you will get fried if you place or cut them.
*[[Insulated gloves]] negate any electrical shocks to the player.

===How Do I Wire?===
After a change in the summer 2019, wires will automatically connect to other wires on tiles in cardinal directions. To place, lift any floor tile with a [[Engineering_items#Crowbar|crowbar]] [[File:Crowbar.png]] to reach the plating. Then click the plating while holding cable coil in your hand to place the wire. To remove wires, use [[Engineering_items#Wirecutters|wirecutters]] [[File:Wirecutters.png]] on them. Powered wires will automatically electrify [[Guide_to_construction#Grille|grilles]] and power some [[machines]] on top of them. 

====Wire Art====
The wire art that was available before June, 2019 can still be made by using an item called "pipe cleaner". See the [[Guide to wire art]].

===Connecting [[Machines]]===

Most [[machines]] are connected to powernets wirelessly by being in an arbitrary "area" containing a charged [[APC]]. Though some [[machines]] must be connected by having a powered wire under them.

With wire knobs now being just what a wire looks like after it's cut, all grilles on top of a wire that has power are shock grilles.

Please note those [[machines]] must also be anchored (generally wrenched down) to be connected.

'''Special cases''' :
*[[#APC|APCs]] are connected to an adjacent powered wire with a special terminal, by doing the cable coil construction step.
*An exception to the cardinal function is [[Engineering_items#SMES_Cell|SMES]], which has an input an output wire next to each other without being connected.


===Wire Layers===
Since October 2019 you can put cables on different layers. Ctrl-click the stack of [[Engineering_items#Cable_Coil|cable coil]] to toggle layer. <br>
[[File:Actioninja_cable_layer_PR_46761.png]]<br><br>
Layers do not connect, and can have separate powernets running along the same tile. Machines and terminals only connect to layer 2, yellow. Cable bridges can be crafted by using the cable coil inhand. Bridges link cables across layers on the same tile, or allow APC's/machines (those that aren't wireless) to connect to layers other than 2 when placed under them.

=== Wire-net Reset===

This is Byond's attempt to "reset" the whole power net in order to deal with new/removed wires that shift the power value of a whole system. It will cause APCs to stop charging for a moment, and in huge nets it can shut down the charging of all APCs for a while.

Don't mess with wires unless you have to, it causes problems to everyone in both OOC (potential lag) and IC (power loss).