It seems I can't use the soldering station when I have power usage config disabled. I checked through the code and didn't see anything about it checking the config to see if it should take power or not, it just attempts to

Have you tried placing it next to a basic pipe? The pipe should know that it doesn't need to consume power iirc.

No I haven't tried that, that will probably work, however maybe it should skip the check for pipes if the config is disabled?

we could also make it Consume Coal when its noot set to draw LP-Power

Or xp

Or kill kittens.