Efficient Redpower 2 Thermopile setup

[Vovk]

don't forget that thermopiles only output around 50 watts in the stable water configuration. If you were to convert it into MJ using a blulectric engine, you'd get around 1 MJ a second, around equal to a redstone engine.

EDIT: also at Antice - RP2 engines can output up to 32 MJ/t but take 1000 watts to do 1 MJ

at optimal conditions you can expect around 50W from a thermopile, 200W from a solar panel during the day, 2500 from a wind mill and 5000 from a wind turbine - though I've seen a turbine get close to 10,000 in an eternal storm mystcraft age.

 

[thatsIch]

thanks for the setup, but I want it to generate basalt and not energy xD therefore solar/wind are much better options

 

[Saice]

don't forget that thermopiles only output around 50 watts in the stable water configuration. If you were to convert it into MJ using a blulectric engine, you'd get around 1 MJ a second, around equal to a redstone engine.

EDIT: also at Antice - RP2 engines can output up to 32 MJ/t but take 1000 watts to do 1 MJ

at optimal conditions you can expect around 50W from a thermopile, 200W from a solar panel during the day, 2500 from a wind mill and 5000 from a wind turbine - though I've seen a turbine get close to 10,000 in an eternal storm mystcraft age.

its all about power use. If you pipe that tiny pile into some batteries and your spike usage is not all that high or long you can pull much higher wattage off the batteries.

 

[Saice]

Recent update on my pile I had a sort of oddly huge project and ran into my storage limit. I have since tripled the size of my pile.

I did run it to some oddities with my pile this large. It seems to randomly go into OMG hyper wattage sometimes when I try and say charge some bat boxes.


2013-01-10_18.32.51 by Saice, on Flickr

But seems to sustain 650 watts fairly well


2013-01-10_18.41.21 by Saice, on Flickr

Edit:

After little it settle in seems to taken to hanging around the 1000 watt range when put to load.


2013-01-10_19.31.53 by Saice, on Flickr