Confused about Reactors and remote Temp units

[thedeester1]

Ok Ill try to explain this the best I can.

I built a nuclear reactor just a single one for starters. I dont want to blow up my world just yet. I put a block under it and added a lever. First Problem. The lever has to be on to make the reactor run. I watched some Vids and they say the reactor runs till it gets a redstone signal...OK I could just use a not gate here...not a massive problem I just wondered why?

Secondly I made a remote temprature sensor. I made the remote sensor kit and clicked the reactor to get what I call the "Location card". I placed My remote temprature sensor within 8 blocks of the reactor. Fed in the location card I then Powered the Remote temp sensor with a LV power source.....Nothing happens? It stays light grey. I look in the remote temp sensor and it has power....The red power bar is up to the top ( Its powered through a MFSU with step down transformers to give LV).

So I thought there must be a problem with the location card? I built a machine Monitor pannel next to the remote Temp sensor. Made it nice and big with the extender units. Gave it a redstone signal and used the Location card in that.....It works. Gives me all the Info of the reactor.

What did I do wrong with the Remote Temprature sensor? No matter what I try It wont detect my reactor?

I wanna use this to shut off the reactor incase of overheat...Even if I do have to NOT the redstone signal.

 

[Omicron]

I built a nuclear reactor just a single one for starters. I dont want to blow up my world just yet. I put a block under it and added a lever. First Problem. The lever has to be on to make the reactor run. I watched some Vids and they say the reactor runs till it gets a redstone signal...OK I could just use a not gate here...not a massive problem I just wondered why?

Because you are watching outdated videos. Reactors recently got a complete revamp; among other things, the redstone behavior changed.

Secondly I made a remote temprature sensor. I made the remote sensor kit and clicked the reactor to get what I call the "Location card". I placed My remote temprature sensor within 8 blocks of the reactor. Fed in the location card I then Powered the Remote temp sensor with a LV power source.....Nothing happens? It stays light grey. I look in the remote temp sensor and it has power....The red power bar is up to the top ( Its powered through a MFSU with step down transformers to give LV).

What are you expecting to happen? Is your reactor even on and generating heat? Try to provide screenshots describing the "will not detect reactor" issue you see.

 

[thatsIch]

Ya you should provide some screenshots on your setup. Best in vanilla texturepack, cause as you described it sounds correct.
Lately Direwolf made himeself a reactor (4-6 episodes ago) but be aware its for 1.2.5/1.3 afaik. So you need to read up the changelogs. Dont trust the wikis cause most times they are outdated, be it 1.4.5 or 1.3

 

[thedeester1]

Well all the Info I read that said if the reactor is on and the Remote sensor has power and a location card it should go green to say the reactor is found and isnt overheating. Mine stayed light grey which the Wiki's said meant not detected a reactor. Dark grey is for no power to the remote sensor Which if I cut its supply It went dark grey and I had the location card in which worked in the Industrial machine display (whatever its called). Will have to wait for screen shots now as I built the reactor away from my base in an "Oasis" in the mountains. I put the reactor in a lake (Now found that water cooling doesnt work after a certain upadate). Any way I didnt light up the cliffs too well and had a creeper Incident which damaged some of the set up.

Also I had the reactor set up quite nice and producing a decent amount of power but went for a few extra chambers. I got a bit carried away and it started cooking my cooling cells so I turned it off. As without the safety from the Remote temp sensor Its Liable to go BOOM (like my first attempt). I thought the colling cells were supposed to regenerate if in a reactor but so far they havent so I dare not turn it back on. At the moment Im so short of tin I cant make new cooling cells so it looks like the reactor is gonna be offline for the moment.

Im back to mining coal with a fortune pickaxe and coking it in a coke oven. Slow but lossless. Dont have the tin to make cells for lava even and Im towing to make enough power to get the magma thingy working fast enough to make lava cells to centrifuge. All the tin I find Im using for this purpose. Was going down the steam boiler path but Im having trouble getting the Nether resources needed even for that. My at first good progression has come to a grinding mining slog a bit like day 1. I feel as If I have hit a wall!!

Oh regarding Versions. When I load up it says Minecraft 1.4.2. No Idea which FTB it is I just play Beta A from the FTB loader. Im new to Mods and Minecraft in general.

 

[thatsIch]

not while in process. when you turn it off they should regen.
to be honest, you dont need a nuclear plant anyways cause what you want to do with your excess energy?

and if you play on 1.4.2 you have to look up for version 1.4.2 feed the beast tutorial, cause IC2 is modifed by a bunch of other mods, so there might be changes to effects etc.

 

[thedeester1]

Well I dont really have that much excess energy. My aim was to build the reactor central to all my stuff. Im using a good deal of automation which needs conastant fueling if it is to be maintenance free (Ie dont have to keep going around turning stuff off). So far I have an automatic tree wood farm and rubber farm. Im looking to auto make and craft fertilizer and mulch. Im using the magma crucible to maximise my tin operation, the Idustrial centrifuge takes masses of power especially when using cobble instead of netherwrack. I am in the process of making a diamond factory. I have a five block macerator/smelter for one drop ore processing. Im using coke powered steam engines to power the operation at the moment but Im running out of easy water sources. I am wanting to build auto cactus, wheat and cane farms. I have a Quarry sorting building set up to sort out the quarried ores but gave up on the quarries because of the amount of power needed for poor ore returns. Running the Cobble from this into the Magma crucible was an aim at one point but the power required means ive either gotta pump lava a mile to make goethermic cells (which I really need for tin production) or make masses of coke which even though I have 3 automated coke ovens (Pumped in and pumped out with redstone engines) Is painfully slow.

Given the distances between each operation and the Reactor. The cable losses would be high so Id need to power a lot of MSFU's and run (my thought) a lot of HV overhead un insulated cables like a proper power grid to still get the power needed after the distance losses.

I also have a jet pack and other tools that require charging in MFE's Or MFSU's.

I am very new and there is a lot of stuff I dont really understand yet. I spend a good deal of time reading wiki's, I havent found one for FTB yet. I only played vanilla before and got fed up with all the redstone creations ending up HUGE.
My first reactor supposedly had an output of 4EU/t...Dont understand this as it was charging the MFSU at about a 1000 EU/s. If there are 10 ticks to a second then that should have been 40 EU/s given the readout on the Industrial MC monitor?

Ive only been playing FTB just over a week but was so taken with it I guess Im trying to run before I can walk. I maybe (not knowing what was envolved made the mistake of making my base in a nice secluded area with lazy pools and mountains in the background. I now know why old settlers made homes by the sea....They had engines to cool and steam to make....LOL

The reactor has been off a all of today and the cooling cells didnt recover. Maybe I took em past the point of no return? In which case they are scrap as I havent found a way of reprocessing them to get back the tin I used making em. Maybe Ill try some in the centrifuge tomorow and see what happens?

Thanks for all the help so far....Im addicted to this game. Oh and the reason Im so wanting "More power" is because Im an Electrical engineer in RL.

 

[thatsIch]

stuff like farms etc are better of with advanced solarpanels + electrical engine (totally sufficient, maintancefree and no wirestress)
it keeps them autonom

the only reason why I would need a nuclear plant right now, is to fuel the mass fabricator
else you put so many ressources in it without any real gain.

My setup: 16 advanced solarpanels plugged to a MFSU fuels every advanced machinery 3x to 4x (like 4 rotary macerators etc) except Mass Fab
If need is be I can add MJ through activating Electrical Egines through hours with just a MFSU so the regen rate is very good (each produces 8EU/t at day and 1EU/t at night/rain)
the next tier solarpanels generates 64eu/8eu andl ast 512/64eu

the last tier produces as much as a very effiecient nuclear plant though much more expensive though maintancefree and regenerable! go green!

if you really want to fuel it within a central point, use the IDSU
http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?title=IndustrialCraft-Addons:GregTech-Addon#IDSU

though stupidly expensive but love it <3

there is no real wiki for ftb, well there is one but its not really maintaned I think (maybe cause its still 1.4.2 dunno)
though
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/complete-list-of-mod-wikis-info.1781/
this might help you

the monitor has a bug, you need to multiply it by 4 I think? use the manuel EU-Reader if you rly want to check it

I have recently watched JoeHills from the Hermitcraft-Server
Biffa and Topmass host a FTB Server too, where JH plays

http://www.youtube.com/user/joehillstsd

he started to create a nuclear setup, so maybe its worth checking out. For me nuclear isnt the way to go, cause the risc of explostion and loss of my base would break my heart xD
So I am knowledgable about it but havent dug too deep into this theme

 

[thedeester1]

Thanks for your reply but I read this thread: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/reactor-planner-can-i-rely-on-it.3169/#post-34206 You can see in there that A: I dont think the Wikis list the right energy value for the Uranium cells (Or my reactor is a special work of art. I didnt put a stop watch on it or anything but counting 1 1 thousand means its pretty close to twice the listed value). And B: I was pretty sure there was something wrong with the machine monitor. IMO it should be x10 not x4. Could be x8 though my counting isnt always great and I had a couple of beers...

No offence but Im totally new. I never played a Minecraft Mod In my life. I only played Minecraft since September. So ALL help is welcome!!!!!!!!

The main reason I built the reactor is because I was fed up of mining coal or using all my tin to make geothermic cells. Plus Im running out of water to make steam and cool engines (above). It was cheap and could be done with the "machines" I had and the resources I mined. Im nowhere near advanced solar panels yet...OOPS. Im having trouble finding anything worthwhile in the Nether and all that red is starting to give me headache. Blaze rods and magma cream, give me a break Im enchanting armour and charging my jetpack just to avoid the Zombie Pig People.

I probably did waste a lot of stuff I got experimenting and making boobs. For example using the bronze wrench without making it electric with "no destroy" (Or whatever thats called) "what? I clicked on you and got a machine block back" Insert swear word HERE. Im just finding my feet.

You might laugh but it took me over an hour to work out that there were 2 different types of Power in FTB (and thats what I know now) EU/t and MJ. I spent ages trying to power my first quarry from a batbox and generator. Im an electrical engineer so I kinda made the technology progression backwards. I started with electricty. Went to nuclear and ended up with STEAM. Ah well still having fun!!!!

 

[Mikey_R]

Well, there is a bug with Nuclear reactors at this time where they produce 2 times the energy in the same amount of time, so the Wiki values are what they are meant to be.

I will say, I have 4 advanced solar panels and have no nuclear reactor setup. They aren't hard to make and don't take many resources. Glowstone is also easy to get. Just take some cobble, pillar up, make a small platform and dig at the glowstone. You don't need much and it's very easy to do for a quick initial trip in.

 

[thedeester1]

Got loads of glowstone!!!! Made a jetpack after my first trip to the nether...I think that took glowstone? For me a jetpack is essential in the nether. It might just be my world but my nether portal is surrounded by lava lakes. I didnt manage to get a silk touch pick axe yet so taking water (as ice) to the nether is Impossible. Luckily the island my portal was on had glowstone and I made the jetpack.

With the jetpack I fly up to the glowstone on some netherwrack....Mine out a platform. Dig the glowstone and if im close enough It doesnt fall into the lava. Id like to find blaze's but since my reactor is looking secure (its not awesome but it saves me mining coal all the damn time) Ill be happy...I did the reactor with all overclocked heat vents...Loads of copper but little tin (I have copper comming out of my ears). Like I said its not awesome but its not eating cooling cells and the uranium cellls last a fair while.

 

[Sara Dr In te House]

Component Heat Vents will regen the damage to the cooling cells if I am not mistaken.

DireWolf20 has several of his videos from episode 50 covering his nuclear reactor. He discusses the issues concerning his reactor as well a stable setup that uses no cooling cells instead uses overclocked heat vents and component heat vents keep his reactor with no heat. He starts his build here

and continues his build for about 3 videos or so in length showing every step of the way.

 

[thedeester1]

Thanks Sara ill be watching that Vid....I did however find the tool on this thread very usefull.... http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/reactor-planner-can-i-rely-on-it.3169/ My reactor is by no means awesome but Im hoping it isnt dangerous!

My first attempt went into meltdown....and made a massive hole in the ground taking most of what I mined with it. I used a bit of common though and put it far enough away from my base. Luckily Steve suffered no Ill effects from the radiation appart form repeating himself himself himself. So all all is good good good.

Maybe it was because he was mining lead at the time....jk