Eu Storage options, Mfsu,Aesu,Lesu,Idsu..

[Jeff Fisher]

Well I just set up a huge steves cart tree farm and to get things started set up 32 generators to burn planks from the farm. Even with only 32 generators my mfsu cant sture as muich energy as I want to store..

I'm Not to the point yet where I can make things that require Iridium really as I don't have a matter fab set up yet..

So what do you think is the most efficient way to store tons of EU?

I was looking at the lesu but just to get a decent amount of storage or output you really need a crap ton of lapis.

 

[Omicron]

Well, if one MFSU doesn't do it...

...build two MFSUs.

(I'm serious, though. If you don't have the materials for the other storage units, then that's the one lossless path left to you. You could of course hook up an electrolyzer, if you are willing to accept a 10% energy loss...)

 

[Guswut]

I was looking at the lesu but just to get a decent amount of storage or output you really need a crap ton of lapis.

It's fifteen metric craptons of lapis, and it's still only really useful to make a nice house out of and nothing more.

As Omicron said: If one MFSU's power isn't enough, build two more. In reality, you should never need to store more than 100,000,000eu as the most EU you should ever need in one go is 90,000,000eu. You need to consider your EU storage as a "buffer" between your energy production, and energy consumption systems.

Besides that, now that you're making way more power than you need, it's time you start making UU matter via the matter fabricator. Set it up after a few MFSU's, and set it to only turn on when the first MFSU (the last to fill up entirely) is filled up. That way you'll keep your buffer, and the matter fabricator will run whenever you have more power than you need.

Good luck!

 

[noskk]

I think AESU is enough, not only for storage unit but also for charging purpose, and the output is adjustable to smaller number.

 

[Jeff Fisher]

Another quick question what is the purpose of hooking up more then one industrial grinder to the machine casings? Does it just act as having more industrial grinders? I'm setting up my Ic2 & gregtech machine room next to my eu generation room and trying to map out where I want the machines.

 

[Guswut]

Another quick question what is the purpose of hooking up more then one industrial grinder to the machine casings? Does it just act as having more industrial grinders? I'm setting up my Ic2 & gregtech machine room next to my eu generation room and trying to map out where I want the machines.

Yes, each industrial grinder is a working industrial grinder. You can have up to four of them off of the same machine casing structure. When you start needing to grind a LOT of things at once (and you will), having the ability to quadruple your output is a really good thing.

 

[Jeff Fisher]

Will one of my industrial grinders touching the casing from my insudtrial blast furnace mess anything up? I know some multiblock things cant have anything touching them

 

[Guswut]

Will one of my industrial grinders touching the casing from my insudtrial blast furnace mess anything up? I know some multiblock things cant have anything touching them

Mm, I have no idea. I'd suggest testing it to see. I don't think it will, but I have no evidence either way as I spaced out my machines a good deal. Good luck.

 

[crazy_fab]

for both grinder and blast furnace, hooking more than one to some machine casing allow you to save on machine casing while increasing the number of machine you have, ie increasing your production speed.
If I were you I would not invest too much on storage, a handful of MFSU is what you'll need at max. You should more worry on either production (which you seem to have for now) or consumption( go find some iridium and consume this eu with a matter fabricator)
You could also store wood until you need it, barrel are cheaper than MFSU.

 

[KirinDave]

I really wanna like the LESU, but I'm not sure when you'd actually want to use it. The biggest problem is how insanely weak the output is. You need to drop a bunch of blocks to even get it to low voltage.

 

[Guswut]

I really wanna like the LESU, but I'm not sure when you'd actually want to use it. The biggest problem is how insanely weak the output is. You need to drop a bunch of blocks to even get it to low voltage.

One of these days, I'm going to mine up enough lapis to make a nice sized house out of the LESU storage blocks. Why? Because living inside of a massive battery sounds like fun.

Besides that, yeah, it's a lot easier to just make a bunch of MFSUs in bulk.

 

[KirinDave]

One of these days, I'm going to mine up enough lapis to make a nice sized house out of the LESU storage blocks. Why? Because living inside of a massive battery sounds like fun.

Besides that, yeah, it's a lot easier to just make a bunch of MFSUs in bulk.

Especially once you can quickly produce big sums of aluminium and lithium for the MFE component, the MFSU becomes crazy cheap. You can increase the efficiency of your lapis by grinding then compressing to plates. I guess this process is even fancier in newer Gregtech releases.

 

[noskk]

Will one of my industrial grinders touching the casing from my insudtrial blast furnace mess anything up? I know some multiblock things cant have anything touching them

No, nothing will mess up, you can even share machine casings between different kind of GregTech multiblock machines (as long as the set up is correct).

 

[abculatter_2]

Another option I'm surprised no one has mentioned is to make a large amount of some form of item EU storage (Lithium batteries would be great for this). Then make an automated system which fills the batteries when there is an excess of energy, and discharges them when there is a shortage. Batteries with the same charge level should be storable together in barrels, or if you're into Applied Energistics they could be stored on their own little preformatted storage cell.

 

[MeinerEiner]

Thats an interresting idea.
I doubt it will be efficient, since you get more EU in an MFSU compared to 6 Lapis Crystals +MFE, but setting it up should be fun

 

[PeggleFrank]

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The spoiler tag in this forum is incredibly hard to use, for some reason. You'll have to deal with an empty extra spoiler tag, for now.
If you want to be completely inefficient and awesome-looking, then you could consider this design:
Please note, this is a picture of something in my Tekkit server. Please don't kill me 3:

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You output energy on the top. You can cap off the cables and just make a hole in that cap when you want to send that energy somewhere.

Have a huge batbox battery that's 10 blocks wide and 10 blocks long, that goes from bedrock to the sky and having a base wrapped around it feeding into it and drawing from it would be awesome.

 

[abculatter_2]

Why not just make it a giant block of your chosen energy storage unit?
That is a really cool-looking idea, by the way.

 

[PeggleFrank]

Why not just make it a giant block of your chosen energy storage unit?
That is a really cool-looking idea, by the way.

I've tried that before, and the energy storage units don't like to send energy directing into eachother. Of course, every server I join, it doesn't work, but every server I haven't laid hands on it works. As such, most of my energy buffer systems are incredibly complicated and completely unneccesary.

That is a really cool-looking idea, by the way.

Thanks



Actually, now that I think about it, my battery design is essentially a Xycraft tank. You can take the energy out of it at any level, and it'll only draw energy from that level.

 

[abculatter_2]

As far as I am aware, energy storage blocks simply immediately emit their energy into whatever storage block is in front of them. This means you should have no problems with a block so long as you remembered that the blocks are basically a one-way cable, and had all of the blocks converge into one block in the end.

Also, as for my earlier suggestion, it is of note that 1 lithium battery will store 100,000 EU. Lithium batpacks will store 600,000. This means a single chest can store 270,000 EU of Lithium batteries, and 1,620,000 of lithium batpacks.
Although, crafting these lithium batteries into MFEs would be a far more efficient use of them. But still, the option is there.