Electrical Engine Problem

[mathman]

Hey folks -

I'm kind of new to this, so I might be asking a completely dumb question. I've got an electrical engine that I'm trying to use to power a quarry. My engines are a reasonable distance away, so I'm trying to use a wooden conductive pipe hooked up to a golden conductive pipe to transport the power generated by the electrical engine.

Here's the issue - the power seems to pass through the wooden conductive pipe and "pool" in the first golden pipe. Why would this happen? Is this a bug? I can't seem to find anything on this.

Thanks for your help -

MM

 

[Dkittrell]

Golden pipes bug out all the time , You can break it and reset but it can happen again.Your better off using the redstone energy cells since your stuff is far away

 

[b0bst3r]

Screenshots of the setup please?

 

[mathman]

Here's the screenshot. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

 

[twisto51]

If you're running quarries you have enough resources to use conduit instead. BC conductive pipe flakes out regularly, particularly if you're playing on a server with other people. The further you run it the more likely a slow/hung chunk load is going to cause your pipe to explode. Conduit on the other hand just works.

 

[mathman]

The funny thing is, when using a combustion engine, this very setup worked perfectly. Only when I changed to an electrical engine did this happen. I think it's very odd.

 

[b0bst3r]

If you're only using 1 engine then why use cable at all, just stick it against the quarry, but that brings me to point 2.

The buildcraft wiki is very VERY VERY old and says that a quarry runs with a max of 9MJ/t, that's very wrong. A quarry kinda maxes out at about 45MJ/t although it will take upto 100MJ/t to gain full speed the difference between 45 and 100 is only very very small.

So running a quarry off 1 electrical engine is going to run it, but very very very VERY slowly.

 

[mathman]

I'm not intending on powering it with just one engine - I originally set it up with several, but reduced it to one for test purposes.