Where can i find up-to-date info on steam boiler mechanics, steam dynamo input rates, and speed and energy requirement of various mod machines? Most wikis seem to be stuck at 1.4 at best, and in-game tool-tips and knowledge base, especially for work speed of machines and liquid use, are lacking and of dubious date or quality (Boiler pressure tanks, for one, have their steam output tool-tip switched)
Steam boilers got changed to use a static amount of fuel and scale the energy output instead. I remember spotting the exact figures somewhere, but I agree it's not super simple to find. All I remember off the top of my head is that a 36HP boiler uses 63 buckets of fuel/hr.
According to one of the
unofficial wikis the steam dynamo uses steam at a rate of 40mB/tick. The TeamCOFH wiki looks like it's still under construction.
Speed of IC2 machines are pretty straight forward to figure out from the IC2 wiki - it gives you the EU consumption rate and the EU/operation. You can then use that info to extrapolate overclocker numbers. There's also an ancient chart showing EU requirements based on overclocker numbers floating around that I think is still accurate.
TE machines are also pretty easy to figure out the speed and power requirement for - energy input is easily found both online and in-game while NEI readily provides power/operation for the various recipes.
Forestry and Buildcraft machines are intentionally vague on their power requirements and what numbers you can find aren't terribly useful because of their constant energy demands. In general, the intention is that you either create an energy-on-demand system with gates or a constant energy system like a boiler. However, their liquid requirements are obsessively documented both in game and on wikis.
Also, for what it's worth, almost every wiki I look at is on 1.5 and transitioning to 1.6. The only 1.4 info I could find pertained to RP2 (which hasn't updated since 1.4) and GT (which hasn't featured prominently in FTB since 1.4). I suppose you could also count the deprecated Forestry farms info since that's still available on the Forestry wiki, though it's clearly labeled as deprecated.
EDIT: IC2 overclocker
chart