Insulated tiles

[Screemonster]

As title.

This is mainly a suggestion for use with the tesla engine.

As the name suggests, insulated floor tiles isolate anyone standing on them from ground (electrical ground, not actual ground). Direct effect of this outside the engine room is that they would provide the benefit of gloves to anyone prepared to really obviously and suspiciously modify their environment before doing their hacking.

More importantly, anyone on such tiles would not be considered a target for a lightning bolt - meaning that setting the engine room up for the tesla engine would involve laying out safe paths for workers to navigate the room. You know, like the kind that real-world substations have. Would also allow engineers (if they can be bothered) to make "safe zones" in the event of the anomaly escaping, and all the hilarious musical-chairs fighting that would result from 60 people in escape trying to cram themselves onto half a dozen tiles as the anomaly approaches which a traitor then tosses a minibomb into. That sort of thing.

[Saegrimr]

Secondary feature of the no-slip tiles we already have maybe? I'd imagine those are the rubbery grip types at least.

[Gun Hog]

Is this not what grounding rods do?

[Screemonster]

Secondary feature of the no-slip tiles we already have maybe? I'd imagine those are the rubbery grip types at least.

That would be pretty neat, yes. Safety tiles that provide protection from some environmental hazards but naturally NT are too fucking cheap to install stationwide.

[Cik]

rubbersuit that works like radsuit for electricity when

is this even a good idea i don't know!

[DemonFiren]

You could use it for the tesla engine.

[Screemonster]

rubbersuit that works like radsuit for electricity when

is this even a good idea i don't know!

Hilariously, power engineers go the complete opposite route when working on live lines.

[Scott]

Good opportunity to create a 'rubber' material.

[Ricotez]

Is this not what grounding rods do?

how do you want to ground something in space?

[Screemonster]

Is this not what grounding rods do?

how do you want to ground something in space?

Well. Strictly speaking, electrical ground is a particular thing. In electrical distribution networks, when they reach the point of supply, the neutral terminal is tied to earth at the transformer by a big fuckin' earth spike. That's the 0v reference point. It also means that the earth is a return path for the circuit if you touch the live circuit at any point. Electrical separation by means of a transformer actually shakes this up some - there is no return path via the earth to the output terminals of the transformer, hence the use of them in shaver sockets in bathrooms and other wet areas.

This is totally headcanon, but from what I've seen of the station and the way wiring is done, along with everything being powered by batteries and photocells and the like, I'd say the station's power grid is DC, with the 0V common terminal being connected to the structural metalwork of the station. So touching the high-voltage wire completes the circuit via your body.

[TheNightingale]

But wires are coated in rubber, and so are the handles of wirecutters. How do you even electrify yourself if you're not touching a conductive material?

[newfren]

But wires are coated in rubber, and so are the handles of wirecutters. How do you even electrify yourself if you're not touching a conductive material?

It's evidently not rubber because you can shock the shit out of yourself through it.

I like to imagine that NT is so cheap that they just use a conductive paint on their wires to give the impression of safety.

[Anonmare]

Ya'll putting too much thought in atmospherics simulator disguised as a game

[Cheimon]

Yeah, wires and wirecutters clearly aren't insulated, or touching them and cutting wires with them wouldn't be liable to electrify you.

[callanrockslol]

Ya'll putting too much thought in atmospherics simulator disguised as a game

You missed some good times if you think this is bad.