Tenevyk: Hey!

I just tried to play around switches.
And I cannot understand one thing.
For example, I tried to make my door opened in my approache. Simple connection: power source → proximity switch → door.
But something went wrong. The door do not opens in my approache, but closes!

I thought that logic of this switch is broken and turned upside down.

Am I right?

Also, I have similar questions about other switches.

Thanks!

P.S. Looks like a designer of highlighting and a programmer of switch logic didn't meet each other.

BlackSun: Yes. It's frakking stupid.
I think it is to prevent locking the player inside on power loss. So doors are open when not powered.

Switches, both proximity and buttons, close the circuit, though. That means the door has no power (open) when the button is connected, and closes when the button is pressed.

That's how it is right now. Because... because.
You have to fiddle around with power inverters to get it to work like you'd expect it to. Inverters are, basically, relays. That would be the better word for them. But for now, my advice...

dashiichi: I think that doors use negative logic. No power = open, power = shut. So try adding an inverter downstream of the proximity switch so that, when active, the door power is off.

Probably a safety measure required by the Atlas building code, so that when doors lose power the occupants aren't trapped inside. Maybe? ;-)

BlackSun: Yes. It's frakking stupid.
I think it is to prevent locking the player inside on power loss. So doors are open when not powered.

Switches, both proximity and buttons, close the circuit, though. That means the door has no power (open) when the button is connected, and closes when the button is pressed.

That's how it is right now. Because... because.
You have to fiddle around with power inverters to get it to work like you'd expect it to. Inverters are, basically, relays. That would be the better word for them. But for now, my advice...

Ghostwalker71: The proximity switch is more like a relay, the inverter is an inverter

BlackSun: Wait, didn't the inverter have three ports...?

But the proximity is just a normal switch, not a relay. It reacts to your presence like for example, a floor switch would.

Tenevyk: It's not a normal switch, because when you're approaching to it - it closes a door, not open. :)

ChewyWeAreNotHome: Why not just build the holo-door and not worry about wiring the door and powering it? Tenevyk was on the right track above.

Price is/was cheap enough, 40 each pure ferrite and ionised cobalt.

Related to this is that there are occasions where door(s) disappear and this happened to me yesterday. Reloading the last save fixed this. I had saved just before this happened anyway as I was changing power around as a hot spot just happened to be located less than 300 away.