Sometimes when going caving for ores etc, I have terrible luck finding lava. Where are you getting your lava from, or is there a relatively cheap method of obtaining large quantities of lava in this pack? The Nether comes to mind, but that would be expensive to pump out from unless you have the infrastructure required to create a transportation system to get it out of there in the first place.
BrickVoid
Nether lava operations are straight forward to setup. Rail tank car, loader/unloaders, some tracks, some detectors, a nether portal, a lava pump of some kind and world anchor. I've done it in a lot of packs so I guess I just consider it a solved problem. I'm in the process of setting one up at the moment as the carpenter takes a hunk of steel to get setup.
This may sound a little odd, but back in the earlier stages of Infitech 2 (like pack version 1.13?) i joined the original public server - its something i do from time to time and wander around peoples bases to see if there is anything i can learn from their setups (which is why HoH and SoL pissed me off so much.)
One guy he had, probably a 10x10 field of solar boilers, i know thats a hilarious amount of silver to invest in a low end power source but youre investing retarded amounts of steel in hp lava boilers if you go that way and its not really about whats cheap, its about what is effective and needs a minimal amount of babysitting.
That is a great idea. I usually watch some lets plays for those ideas but the pack had obviously evolved since they had started as the recipes for some core components, such as conduits, has changed. I really don't know anything about this pack or gregtech. There also aren't a ton of resources which makes it more fun to try and figure things out. But it can also get frustrating at times when you are trying to solve a problem and have to experiment at great cost.
So question about EU. I have five machines in my processing line. If all of them are running at once the energy draw is a total of 41eu/t. They are attached by a 32v/4a wired to a 4x LV battery box. The question is how are the packets sent out to power these. I remember how the old IC2 power system used to work. But this is different. Are they always full packets of 32/eu and are consumed completely or are they partially consumed? Or are there smaller packets sent out and they are consumed by the machine that needs them? I would like to get away with having the thinnest wires and smallest battery boxes and number of batteries to power a production line as possible. I would also like to be able to plan it and not have to fiddle with it to get it right.