Blulectric Engine specifics

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Cosmology27

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So considering this engine is probably the most efficient (in my opinion) I'm using it to power my assembly table. I want my assembly table to not take 10 years to make the hard stuff, so I'm putting down hundreds of solar panels for my engines. The problem is that the blulectric engine does not feed into conductive pipes, so I'm using a redstone energy cell. I've realized a couple of things.
First, it takes just over 70 solar panels to have the redstone energy cell reach its max input.
Second, and this is where I would like your input, is that it appears to only take in about 350 MJ a second. Considering it can take 100MJ/t, you would think it could take about 2000 MJ a second... Why is it so low? Am I wrong in thinking that it's 20 ticks per second?
Also, is there a more efficient or easier way to use the blulectric engine for this type of thing? Or do I need to filter it through a redstone energy cell?
If you have any advice on a better MJ/t source I'd like to hear that too.
Thanks
 

Cosmology27

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Thanks, that is helpful (the laser mj thing, and that blulectric engines do connect).
Also, I'm using Ultimate.

I think I figured out the issue. It's not that redstone energy cells can only take 100 MJ/t, it's that each packet can only be max 100 MJ. I'm feeding it about 6k MJ a second right now (300 MJ/t) which is 3x what is "should" take, considering what it's GUI says. I'm doing this with power converters and RP solars.

thanks for those two pieces of knowledge though, that'll help a good bit