I've been playing with some focus on IC2 (in Dire's pack 1.7). Foolish enough, but, after going through the UU replication process, i got my first three iridium plates and made an iridium drill.
Is there any config for changing the energy requirement of the iridium drill? (<---the actual question of the post)
I originally thought to use to save two inventory spaces (the regular drill and a fortune diamond pickaxe), but i discovered it uses 1000Eu per block, is only a tiny bit faster than the regular diamond drill, and other than having a fortune/silk switch, it's completely impractical for anything.
For reference, the regular drill uses 50eu per block, and the diamond drill, which is a huge step up, is a mighty 80eu per block. the mining laser's low-focus mode is 100eu per shot (which is 1 block) and mines instantly and at range. it has 300 uses before needing to recharge- the pickaxes it was meant to replace have each practically 6,248 uses.