Suggestion: Electric Lighting

A number of powered lighting blocks would be useful.

• a basic status indicator lamp that is red when not powered and glows green when powered (luminance 7?)
  - this would not draw power itself but would operate similar to an installed EC-meter and indicate if a line is currently hot
• normal electric lighting (luminance 14)
• flood lamp (luminance 15) - don't think game allows any brighter than this, which is a shame, because flipping on the generator to melt zombies with artificial sunlight is very attractive...
• additionally, lighted cables themselves would be nice (cable + indicator lamp, possibly only 6 lumens?).

To make powered lights most effective, however, it would also be nice to have a switch that powers a circuit in darkness (an anti-solar panel).

Recipes:


Status LED - glass + copper dust + insulated cable
Light Bulb - 3 tin + glass + uninsulated copper cable + insulated copper cable
Flood Lamp - 2 light bulb + 2 insulated copper cable
Lighted Cable - status led + cable

NB:
Real LED filaments are made from an alloy of gallium, which is usually found in zinc/aluminum... neither of which do we have. Tin might therefore make more sense chemically as a filament material, but copper is both redder and greener

Quote from passinglurker

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you need to run a search for repeat suggestions before posting this is one is very common revamping luminators is already on alblakas list

till then you could do this if you put an induction furnace in heat-up mode on the end of the cable to constantly drain the power to trigger the detector cables.

Heh, sorry I did actually search for about 15 minutes, and didn't see any indicaton of an approved lighting idea. I even deleted the post once when I saw that a similarly named suggestion (but what was really just head lamps) was on the denied suggestions list. Oh well