What is the point of the "middle tier" energy cells and conduits in TE3?
A single steam dynamo, leadstone energy cell and leadstone conduits are enough to power your machines long enough to make the higher tier redstone versions, the hardened conduit and hardened energy cell in the middle is skippable and largely obsolete.
The only time I ever build hardened conduits or energy cells is when cross-mod stuffs like PowerConverters recipes need them.
A single steam dynamo, leadstone energy cell and leadstone conduits are enough to power your machines long enough to make the higher tier redstone versions, the hardened conduit and hardened energy cell in the middle is skippable and largely obsolete.
The only time I ever build hardened conduits or energy cells is when cross-mod stuffs like PowerConverters recipes need them.