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Found a small bug where accumulators won't charge, despite having access to large energy source, when placed on 2 networks.
In my case I use small electic poles as probs for my green/red wires.
Depending on the order of placement if the pole with no energy source but a load is placed first, the accumulator will not charge.
Removing the pole and placing it back change the order of the sources and allow it to charge.
This behavior is not gamebreaking but can only be seen when debug "show-energy-sources-networks" on.

Top is Pole then Main network, botton is reverse. (Electro-plant as a power load).

Isn't this just because the load and the accumulators are both in the same two networks so it just depends on whether the load looks at the big network or the small network first? I'm not sure what the practical application of such a setup would be...

It's true that this scenario is really specific.

In my case, the loads are the combinators and the robotports on top, I was wandering why my accumulators at the bottom refused to charge, even when the power grid was fine.