Go a couple of pages back and you can find the setup I've got that achieves the same effect with just 17MW of power draw. linkCould you elaborate? Possibly add a picture if your feeling nice?
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Wow, that's an impressive setup. But you also use magnetostatic engines and RF to transmit power. :3
Power buses look interesting, though. I need to check them out.
You are hardly alone.
Your previous post was hardly clear enough to be able to respond to with advice.
That one's not quite so elegant.Would you care to show your smelting setup with the friction heaters?
Doesn't come anywhere close to being able to keep up with the extractors. Meh.
Sorry for barging into the thread like this, but although I haven't played with RotaryCraft yet, it looks really cool! I like to think that I'm pretty good at math and science, so I definitely want to try it out.
Also, I'm taking an engineering course next year, and if I get good at RotaryCraft, well... who knows, I may get a head start!
Although it could also be the other way around.
Also, I'm taking an engineering course next year, and if I get good at RotaryCraft, well... who knows, I may get a head start!
Although it could also be the other way around.
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Be informed, this mod takes much time to master. In fact, it's taken me the most time out of all mods.Sorry for barging into the thread like this, but although I haven't played with RotaryCraft yet, it looks really cool! I like to think that I'm pretty good at math and science, so I definitely want to try it out.
Also, I'm taking an engineering course next year, and if I get good at RotaryCraft, well... who knows, I may get a head start!
Barging in? You must not have read much of the thread, or more condescendingly...
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But in all seriousness, it's fine, everyone does it. It's one of the only ways to get things done, and it works great here.
What temperature do you have the friction heaters running at?That one's not quite so elegant.
8 friction heaters running on 2MW each. More magnetostatics because they're convenient and cheap. Friction heaters seem to run best with roughly balanced torque and speed, but there aren't really any shortcuts to getting them running quickly other than dumping in more power. AE export busses supplying a small Extra Utilities piping system to act as a buffer (the extractor ends up putting out like 38 different kinds of flakes, and each export bus can only do 8). Another small piping system to extract from the furnaces, and dumping back into the AE network.
Doesn't come anywhere close to being able to keep up with the extractors. Meh.
1345C. At this heat, 8 extractors on 2MW/each collectively work a little faster than a single extractor running off the jet-engine-or-so worth of power it takes to max a single one out at 2000C. The Rotarycraft handbook also mentions something melting furnaces at excessive amounts of heat, but that never actually seems to happen, even putting in a few GW of power from a creative industrial coil.
You wouldn't happen to have a rotarycraft spawner controller, would you? If so, do you know how much power it takes to make the spawn delay zero? Also, what are you using to produce your RF power?
Minimum spawn delay is achieved at about 4MW at 1Nm of torque. Gonna have to cook up a few gearboxes.
Currently the grinder magnetostatic is producing 262 kW and splitting it almost evenly to three grinders, grinding sugar cane, netherrack and soul sand. Hooking a gasoline engine up to each grinder would produce exactly the same effect.
Next up there are two fermenters running off 65 kW, one being fed with sugar from a grinder and dirt from earth essence, and the other with yeast from the previous one and leaves made from water and earth essence. Another gasoline engine would work here instead. The resultant sludge is being fed to a redstone furnace to produce ethanol crystals.
Finally, the products of all these machines are being exported to a fractionation unit to produce jet fuel, with a third magnetostatic producing 524 kW, geared to 1 Nm of torque. A microturbine turned down to 25% with an engine control unit would work here, too, with the appropriate gearing.
This setup is making enough fuel to run probably 5 or 6 gas turbines continuously.
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Fantastic stuff sir. If you ever get into ReactorCraft (fission, rather than fusion) I'd be excited to see what you put together.
I believe they are part of Chisel. You can make yellow or orange ones. I think the block you need to craft is called a factory block. You then convert it into those with the chisel.