ImprovedPowerNetwork relay connections to bases are not working as described

[heaventwig]

setup

1. adjust settings in mod options panel to max range for both relay-to-relay beams (1000m) and relay-to-base beams (100m)
2. place a new Power Transmitter on the sea floor adjacent to (within ten meters of) a base with a powered bio-reactor
3. build another base well within relay-to-relay range (within 500m) of that first set
4. place a power transmitter next to the new base (again, less than 10m)

expected behavior

• boom, base 2 is powered

actual behavior

• oxygen production offline (base 2 is sad, and has no power)

further tweaking & exploration

a. add a solar panel to power up the second base
b. discover that the new solar panel is feeding the grid, not the new base
c. reposition panel and relay until somehow it works

musings...

although the some of the documentation for this mod says power relay connections to bases should be adjustable (and the configuration options allow adjustment) from 1 to 100 meters of range, the relays don't connect to bases unless they're basically adjacent to the base. They may also have to be closer to the base than to any power source. Placing a relay beside a solar array that's next to a base powers down the base, which may be because the relays are binding power sources to themselves more strongly than bases are (possibly just whenever they're closer). These "maybes" could use verification.

possible fixes

This could be fixed in code, but it could also possibly just be fixed in documentation / user education. Tell us we have to put the relays just a little further back than the solar panels, or whatever's true about how it's working, and presto there's no problem. Or tweak the code to make the beams connect properly, but that honestly seems like it might be more complicated than verifying exactly how it's working and writing that up.