I have 3 HP36s running so by my calculations that means I need 3x18 = 54 industrial steam engines hooked up to them. So I have liquiducts on top of each boiler covering all the 9 block spaces and liquiducts linking them altogether which then goes down a single line of liquiducts where they split into a line of 2x27 and power my steam engines.
Everything goes well until I get to the last 2 engines - as soon as I power them the steam suddenly drains to half from 8k down to around 4k and the power output drops as well.
I have of course checked and double checked that I have the correct number of engines, all the pipes are connected and the outputs set up correct on top of the boilers and the chunk area is loaded, but as soon as I power engine # 53 I'm losing power.
So I tried making an additional liquiduct line from the 1st boiler and connected it to the opposite end of the steam engine array and suddenly the steam jumps back up to 8k and my power quickly comes back up to 8 MJ/t. This leads me to think that there is some steam "limit" down a single liquiduct pipe line but there's nothing on either TE or RC wikis about this. Anyone have further info?
I'll see if I can knock up a quick illustration of my setup in my test world and upload it.
Everything goes well until I get to the last 2 engines - as soon as I power them the steam suddenly drains to half from 8k down to around 4k and the power output drops as well.
I have of course checked and double checked that I have the correct number of engines, all the pipes are connected and the outputs set up correct on top of the boilers and the chunk area is loaded, but as soon as I power engine # 53 I'm losing power.
So I tried making an additional liquiduct line from the 1st boiler and connected it to the opposite end of the steam engine array and suddenly the steam jumps back up to 8k and my power quickly comes back up to 8 MJ/t. This leads me to think that there is some steam "limit" down a single liquiduct pipe line but there's nothing on either TE or RC wikis about this. Anyone have further info?
I'll see if I can knock up a quick illustration of my setup in my test world and upload it.