Hmm. Just because I'd like to throw in my explanation of EU/t vs. EU/p.
You can have unlimited number of packets flowing through a single piece of wire. The limitation is that the packets need to be the right size. For copper, gold, glass fibre and HV, the packet size limitations are 32, 128, 512 and 2048 respectively. This means the voltage limitation on wires is actually EU/p.
Though glass fibre cable is limited to 512 EU/t, if you have three MFSU's connected in parallel to a single output:
MFSU ------------
______________|
MFSU --------------x-x---- Output
______________|
MFSU ------------
The output, say a matter fabricator, capable of accepting up to 8.1k EU/t will receive ~ 1.5k EU/t from this set up. When you go to check the wire at the point (x-x) with an EU-reader, you will find that it'll read 1536 EU/t, even though the limit is 512 EU/t. This is because there are three 512 EU sized packets traveling every tick.
A better notation to describe this would be to say 512 EU * 3p / t, or three, 512 EU packets, every tick.
What this means is the following:
1.) A single transmission line attached to all sizes (6) of a block is capable of sending 6 packets per tick, of whatever the transmission line is rated at, so long as the block/machine can accept that much EU.
2.) Technically, a piece of wire can carry infinite EU/t as so long as the packets are the right size.
Something to be discerned:
1.) The amount of energy that a storage device can output is correct in the sense that only 512 EU/t can come out of an MFSU. If your system demands 600 EU/t, you are only going to get 512 EU/t out of that MFSU. The solution is to set up two MFSU's in parallel, allowing your EU/t damage to be 1024 EU/t.
An example to better explain that:
The output of my lava EU generating cell is 700+ EU/t. If I am storing all the produced energy in storage devices, then from those devices the energy is sent out, I need two MFSU's connected in parallel to allow me to consume EU at a rate of 700+ EU/t. If I only had one, I would only be capable of consuming 512 EU/t.
In the end:
Knowing how much energy in total is all you really need. Store your energy in high voltages because stepping down voltages is so much more easy than stepping it up. If your demands out of one transmission line exceeds the rated EU/t from a transformer, simply adding another transformer, or attaching another output size to your output wire is sufficient. The other way around (i.e. turning 8 LV packets into 2 MV packets) would require you to have two transformers with all four sides connected, and a redstone signal. It's just less convenient, imo.
You can have unlimited number of packets flowing through a single piece of wire. The limitation is that the packets need to be the right size. For copper, gold, glass fibre and HV, the packet size limitations are 32, 128, 512 and 2048 respectively. This means the voltage limitation on wires is actually EU/p.
Though glass fibre cable is limited to 512 EU/t, if you have three MFSU's connected in parallel to a single output:
MFSU ------------
______________|
MFSU --------------x-x---- Output
______________|
MFSU ------------
The output, say a matter fabricator, capable of accepting up to 8.1k EU/t will receive ~ 1.5k EU/t from this set up. When you go to check the wire at the point (x-x) with an EU-reader, you will find that it'll read 1536 EU/t, even though the limit is 512 EU/t. This is because there are three 512 EU sized packets traveling every tick.
A better notation to describe this would be to say 512 EU * 3p / t, or three, 512 EU packets, every tick.
What this means is the following:
1.) A single transmission line attached to all sizes (6) of a block is capable of sending 6 packets per tick, of whatever the transmission line is rated at, so long as the block/machine can accept that much EU.
2.) Technically, a piece of wire can carry infinite EU/t as so long as the packets are the right size.
Something to be discerned:
1.) The amount of energy that a storage device can output is correct in the sense that only 512 EU/t can come out of an MFSU. If your system demands 600 EU/t, you are only going to get 512 EU/t out of that MFSU. The solution is to set up two MFSU's in parallel, allowing your EU/t damage to be 1024 EU/t.
An example to better explain that:
The output of my lava EU generating cell is 700+ EU/t. If I am storing all the produced energy in storage devices, then from those devices the energy is sent out, I need two MFSU's connected in parallel to allow me to consume EU at a rate of 700+ EU/t. If I only had one, I would only be capable of consuming 512 EU/t.
In the end:
Knowing how much energy in total is all you really need. Store your energy in high voltages because stepping down voltages is so much more easy than stepping it up. If your demands out of one transmission line exceeds the rated EU/t from a transformer, simply adding another transformer, or attaching another output size to your output wire is sufficient. The other way around (i.e. turning 8 LV packets into 2 MV packets) would require you to have two transformers with all four sides connected, and a redstone signal. It's just less convenient, imo.
