Energy Generation Advice Needed

[James P Jassie]

I'm currently progressing through Direwolf20 1.6 pack, I have plenty of resources. My A/E system is fairly well progressed, to the point of having deep storage and import/export for ores into Pulverizers/Redstone furnaces. My current setup for power is as follows; I have an enderthermic pump in the nether - through a tesseract into an iron tank. The tank then feeds a bank of 18 magmatic dynamos which go into a redstone energy cell.
I started last night setting up a couple of quarries which are fed by tesseracted energy from the energy cell. Unfortunately they have drained my energy cell of all power rather fast and my magmatic dynamos back up power and lava store has been completely drained.
My fluid transport pipes aren't providing lava fast enough to the dynamos so i have intermittent energy.

I need some advice on whether i should move my dynamos next to the iron tank so the lava has less to travel.
The second option would be to scrap the system, but my knowledge of power sources is rather limited and so i wouldn't know what the best option would be.

 

[malicious_bloke]

Magmatic dynamos fed by nether lava is the staple way of doing things, it works fine.

Two things:

1. Use fluiducts to move lava to your dynamos, they have much higher throughput than fluid transport pipes, that should stop them running out.

2. I would stick to one quarry at a time, at 64x64 blocks that should keep minerals coming in as fast as you can use them. Also keep an eye on it, i've found they start drawing a ton more power once they hit bedrock and stop drilling.

 

[James P Jassie]

Thank you for your advice.

 

[Lordlundar]

If you have an abundance of redstone you can implement heated redstone generators and supply them with energized redstone from a magma crucible. 320 RF/t for 4 minutes and 10 seconds per 10 redstone.

To add to what malicious bloke has said, you can set up a BC gate setup to disable power feed when the quarry is finished. Set up your quarry and tessaract as normal but don't connect the energy conduit then place structure pipe beside both items in a line. hook up iron gates on the pipes next to each item and use piping wire to connect them. Have the gate next to the quarry set to emit a pipe signal when the quarry is done and set the gate next to the tessaract to emit redstone signal when it receives a red pipe signal. make sure the redstone control for the tessaract is set to low signal then hook up the energy conduit. When the quarry finishes it will emit a red pipe signal to the tessaract gate, sending a redstone signal to the tessaract shutting it off.

 

[rhn]

I'm currently progressing through Direwolf20 1.6 pack, I have plenty of resources. My A/E system is fairly well progressed, to the point of having deep storage and import/export for ores into Pulverizers/Redstone furnaces. My current setup for power is as follows; I have an enderthermic pump in the nether - through a tesseract into an iron tank. The tank then feeds a bank of 18 magmatic dynamos which go into a redstone energy cell.
I started last night setting up a couple of quarries which are fed by tesseracted energy from the energy cell. Unfortunately they have drained my energy cell of all power rather fast and my magmatic dynamos back up power and lava store has been completely drained.
My fluid transport pipes aren't providing lava fast enough to the dynamos so i have intermittent energy.

I need some advice on whether i should move my dynamos next to the iron tank so the lava has less to travel.
The second option would be to scrap the system, but my knowledge of power sources is rather limited and so i wouldn't know what the best option would be.

I would make sure you limit the power to your quarry somehow. Quarries have diminished returns on power so feeding them anything above 400ish RF/t(40MJ/t) each is rather a waste.

You can limit the power going to the quarry by either supplying the tesseract through a Hardened energy conduit(precisely 400RF/t) or X number of Leadstone connections. But that is rather a mess. You could also use a Hardened Energy conduit on the quarry side to limit it to 400RF/t precisely if that is what you want. But what I prefer is to have more control: Feed your tesseract through a Energy cell. This way you can precisely set the output to the quarry as you like by changing the output values of the Energy cell. A Hardened energy cell next to the tesseract would be fine for one quarry, but if you run several on the same channel then you need a redstone energy cell.

This way your Quarry wont eat up everything it can get it hands on and you can throttle it down a bit if power is low.

And yes, fluiducts for the lava to increase throughput or use a better engine/gate or better pipes.

 

[Lordlundar]

I would make sure you limit the power to your quarry somehow. Quarries have diminished returns on power so feeding them anything above 400ish RF/t(40MJ/t) each is rather a waste.

You can limit the power going to the quarry by either supplying the tesseract through a Hardened energy conduit(precisely 400RF/t) or X number of Leadstone connections. But that is rather a mess. You could also use a Hardened Energy conduit on the quarry side to limit it to 400RF/t precisely if that is what you want. But what I prefer is to have more control: Feed your tesseract through a Energy cell. This way you can precisely set the output to the quarry as you like by changing the output values of the Energy cell. A Hardened energy cell next to the tesseract would be fine for one quarry, but if you run several on the same channel then you need a redstone energy cell.

Heh, I did originally put that down in my post but then I did a small test and did see a notable speed increase by bumping up the power above the 400 RF/t so I took it out.

 

[rhn]

Heh, I did originally put that down in my post but then I did a small test and did see a notable speed increase by bumping up the power above the 400 RF/t so I took it out.

Yeah of course it is not like that you wont be able to increase speed by adding more power. But it take more and more power to increase the speed just a bit the higher up you get. The diminishing return starts at 120RF/t, but the effects are negligible in the beginning. But around 400-460RF/t it starts getting so bad that its recommended to run another Quarry and share the power between them.