detect redstone energy cell's storage

[casilleroatr]

..And to calculate the cost... 1 mj = 5 energy units?..

I just checked on the AE website and you are right.

 

[Wekmor]

Hmm weird then :s

 

[Omicron]

They are commercial steam engines with steam from factorization solar boilers

...huh. I got my threads mixed up then, could have sworn that we were talking about combustion engines somewhere.

 

[namiasdf]

If you are worried about constant updates, why not add a CC timer program.

When the energy cell hits "full", send a redstone signal to the computer.

The computer runs a loop that keeps the engines "on" by default, using a redstone signal. When the computer receives the signal indicating that the redstone cell is full, turn off the engines and sleep for a period of time before running the loop again.

It's quite easy. If you know the load on your cell is 20MJ/t (you can even restrict the output in the redstone cell GUI), the calculations are pretty straight forward. I do those ones in my head usually.[DOUBLEPOST=1373494131][/DOUBLEPOST]edit startup

while true do
--redstone.setOutput("side", true)
--os.pullEvent("redstone")
--redstone.setOutput("side", false)
--sleep(x)
end

side = Side your engines are located.

x = Time you want to sleep for. x = cell max energy in MJ / (MJ/t) / (20t/s)

x should be in seconds. I've tested this a few times. Don't include the dashes. I used them to indent the while loop, for clarity.