Tek gen guzzling shard glitch?

[Cowgirl]

So I just went to check on some babies I am raising and I have my tek thing set to almost 5 radius. I went and checked the shard/element numbers to make sure I was still good on those and the thing was eating at least 1 shard per second! It was ticking down like crazy! It had not done that before so I am pretty sure it was a glitch. I was wondering if anyone knew what caused it so I could hopefully not do it again if it is a player caused glitch. I took the fuel out and put it back in and it stopped eating it so fast.