Darkout Wiring Tips

Sockets and Wiring - The In's and Out's


Each socket, built-in (front-wall socket) or not (back-wall socket), has two areas of action.

Center (inside the red square) and edge (between red and orange squares). If you start to drag a

wire from the center, you'll get these wonderful and straight wire (tube wire):



But if you start to drag a wire from the edge, you'll get that loose wire:



Of course, it's not so nice, but unlike the first version these wires allow you to connect sockets to any devices.

The use of different wire types will be a useful solution if you want to create multiple independent power circuits.

Different types of wires do not form connections with each other.



But be careful, each wire will automatically connect to a socket in an adjacent block.

And only in this way you can connect the two built-in sockets, unless they are connected by a wall:



But this connection has some drawbacks. This allows you to connect only 2 sockets together.

Nice and tidy wires provide more benefits for circuit branching:



But what if you need to lead a beautiful wire between walls, which are not connected together? It's simple.

For vertical connections, use doors (can be connected only when the door is closed):



And platforms for horizontal connections:



This is all the tricks of wires and sockets.

Device Wiring
Now let's learn how to connect various devices into a common energy circuit.

As you probably noticed, there are two types of devices:

Back-wall placed devices.

Front-wall placed devices.

The first type can be placed only at presence of back walls, but regardless of the front wall.

Such devices can only be connected to a socket by connecting them with a wire.

But the second type of device is much more interesting. These devices can only be placed on a floor

surface, ceiling or walls. They can be connect with sockets by wires as well as the back-wall devices,

but you can do without extra wires if you put them directly on side of a front-wall socket.



Unfortunately this will make impossible to use the socket to connect with other devices by wires, but it will make your base neat and beautiful.

Of course, you can always connect your device using a loose wire or using a socket in the floor beneath it.

It makes no difference which point of a device should be connected.



You can connect a wire to any port of this battery (red squares) or put a socket under it (green square)

and it will work, you do not need to connect the battery in series.

However, there is one exception to this rule.

Only one device must be connected sequentially or it will not work. I'm talking about switches.



Switches must be connected in different ports (red and green squares) or you can't be able to use them to turn on/off your power circuit.

But every rule has its exceptions as well:



As you can see, that front-wall switch (this will not work with a back-wall switch, of course) can get power not only by loose wire connection,

but also by socket underneath. In this case, both of his ports will work the same way.