Hey guys! I've been trying to find a good way to power my Ender Quarry with a speed 1 or 2 upgrade. But the problem is, that I've made at least 5 magmatic dynamos, all with 2 fuel efficiency, and 2 power-gen upgrades. Each one produces 320RF/T, but it is still not enough! It can't even handle a speed 1 upgrade! Any suggestions on better power-gen? Besides a Big-Reactor?
Best power-gen DW20 1.7.10
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Try a Reactor from big reactors. Upgrade to Full sized turbine when possible. The Reactor will produce a few thousand RF/t. The max turbine will produce close to 30,000RF/t.
Might want a laser drill to make finding some resources easier. Botania makes getting glowstone loads easier.
Edit: sorry didn't fully read the post.
Might want a laser drill to make finding some resources easier. Botania makes getting glowstone loads easier.
Edit: sorry didn't fully read the post.
If you have the infrastructure to auto-brew potions, the potion generator from ExU will also produce around 300 RF/t for a complex potion, and then you can combine 8 of them to a single 8x generator.
Similar with the culinary generator, if you can auto-produce food with high saturation values.
You can also feed a big turbine from Big Reactors (it's not a reactor!) with steam created by a Railcraft boiler. With a 36HP boiler than produces 720 mB/t steam you should get something like 10k RF/t. The boiler can be fueled with Fuel, Ethanol and a few other liquids.
Similar with the culinary generator, if you can auto-produce food with high saturation values.
You can also feed a big turbine from Big Reactors (it's not a reactor!) with steam created by a Railcraft boiler. With a 36HP boiler than produces 720 mB/t steam you should get something like 10k RF/t. The boiler can be fueled with Fuel, Ethanol and a few other liquids.
How big would the Turbine have to be? And how many rotors would it need?
Also, I've just been testing a turbine in a creative world, how do I slow down the RPM? lol
Or power the boiler using solid fuel. Charcoal is a bit of a setup to make, but a tree farm using some of the biomes-o-plenty trees, cherry blossom trees in particular, is self sustainable and can easily supply the boiler with the charcoal needed. You'll just need a planter and harvester(no fertilizer needed with cherry blossom trees, they grow that fast on their own, and produce vast amounts of wood, really) for the tree farm, and a pair of furnaces to convert the wood to charcoal.
Benefits:
1: lots of wood, over 40 blocks of wood from the bigger trees. And most of the trees should be of the larger variety.
2: nearly as many saplings as wood. Good for making biomass/biofuel as well.
3: renewable
4:a single farm growing as few as 11 cherry blossom trees can sustain a single, hot, 36HP boiler indefinitely.
Drawbacks:
1: infrastructure... needs several machines and a good power base to get the boiler up to temp before it becomes self sustainable.
2: Causes some block and/or frame lag when your near the tree farm. Best to have it chunk loaded at a distance from your main base.
3: Noisy...... :\
4: Can be messy.
BTW: 720mb/tick of steam relates to 13 blocks of enderium for the coils and 28 turbine blades. A turbine that size, running at about 1800RPM, should produce around 8214RF/tick. I do not have the numbers for Ludicrite(the pinkish alloy in big reactors) yet so do not know how many would be needed of those blocks, or their output from 720mb/tick. would need less blocks though, but the same number of turbine blades.
You slow down the RPM by reducing the flow of steam in the turbine. By default it would say 2000, dropping this down will let you stabilize the turbine at the speed you want.
other options include:
1: ender power, if you have a constant, and substantial, surplus of enderlily seeds and ender pearls. You'll need quite a few generators...
2: nether star power. If your willing to make a large wither factory with all the spawners and killing rooms that go with it.
3: More magmatic dynamos? Something like 10 more with a way to turn them on and off remotely as needed.
4: .......
:edit: ok, if you use 30 blades(odd numbers of blades act funny...), 13 enderium blocks, and 1 block of iron for the coils, you should be able to run the full 720mb/tick through the turbine and use it all. Otherwise, the 13 enderium blocks would only be using around 706mb/tick. This would be if your trying to keep the turbine as close to 1800RPM as possible.
Benefits:
1: lots of wood, over 40 blocks of wood from the bigger trees. And most of the trees should be of the larger variety.
2: nearly as many saplings as wood. Good for making biomass/biofuel as well.
3: renewable
4:a single farm growing as few as 11 cherry blossom trees can sustain a single, hot, 36HP boiler indefinitely.
Drawbacks:
1: infrastructure... needs several machines and a good power base to get the boiler up to temp before it becomes self sustainable.
2: Causes some block and/or frame lag when your near the tree farm. Best to have it chunk loaded at a distance from your main base.
3: Noisy...... :\
4: Can be messy.
BTW: 720mb/tick of steam relates to 13 blocks of enderium for the coils and 28 turbine blades. A turbine that size, running at about 1800RPM, should produce around 8214RF/tick. I do not have the numbers for Ludicrite(the pinkish alloy in big reactors) yet so do not know how many would be needed of those blocks, or their output from 720mb/tick. would need less blocks though, but the same number of turbine blades.
You slow down the RPM by reducing the flow of steam in the turbine. By default it would say 2000, dropping this down will let you stabilize the turbine at the speed you want.
other options include:
1: ender power, if you have a constant, and substantial, surplus of enderlily seeds and ender pearls. You'll need quite a few generators...
2: nether star power. If your willing to make a large wither factory with all the spawners and killing rooms that go with it.
3: More magmatic dynamos? Something like 10 more with a way to turn them on and off remotely as needed.
4: .......
:edit: ok, if you use 30 blades(odd numbers of blades act funny...), 13 enderium blocks, and 1 block of iron for the coils, you should be able to run the full 720mb/tick through the turbine and use it all. Otherwise, the 13 enderium blocks would only be using around 706mb/tick. This would be if your trying to keep the turbine as close to 1800RPM as possible.
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The max turbine uses 32 ludicrite blocks (4 rows of coils) to produce 27,000+ rf/t from 2,000 mb steam/t (80 blades). With 32 enderium you get 20,000+ rf/t from around 1,730 mb steam/t, iirc. Note that this is with the power multiplier in the config set to 1.0. You can build it with the blades 2 wide coming off the shaft, so the casing would be 7x7x16.
I think a 7x7x3 reactor with 5 fuel rods will be able to produce 2,000mb steam/t, but I like to build mine with 9 fuel rods, so I'm not certain.
I'm not sure you can avoid big reactors & reliably power the ender quarry with speed upgrades. Even after the update I think you still need somewhere in the 8,000 to 12,000 rf/t range. You could always go with the IC2 reactors. Bump it up to 40 magmatic dynamos & you should be all set.
I think a 7x7x3 reactor with 5 fuel rods will be able to produce 2,000mb steam/t, but I like to build mine with 9 fuel rods, so I'm not certain.
I'm not sure you can avoid big reactors & reliably power the ender quarry with speed upgrades. Even after the update I think you still need somewhere in the 8,000 to 12,000 rf/t range. You could always go with the IC2 reactors. Bump it up to 40 magmatic dynamos & you should be all set.
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Am curious, if your running 5 magmatic @ 320 rf/t your putting out roughly 1600 rf/t are you still using the first tier conduits?, they only move 640 rf/t so it wouldn't matter how many engines/generators while using them, only get 640 rf/t, have to upgrade to move more then 640 rf/t.
This is probably the case, try upgrading your energy conduits or whatever you use to a higher tier!