Bug Extra Utilities 2/Ender-IO Wireless power interaction bug.

[Jakalth]

I have found a Bug of sorts that involves an (unintended???)interaction between the Extra Utilities 2 Wireless RF Transmitter and the Ender IO Energy Conduits. This bug causes the Wireless RF Transmitter to treat each segment of Ender IO conduit as a separate energy requiring device. This means that if you have 4 pieces of ender io conduit attached to an energy using machine, and use a Wireless RF Transmitter to send it power, the device will receive 400RF/tick instead of the intended 80RF/tick due to each segment of conduit receiving and transferring an additional 80RF/tick each to the machine.

I don't know if this is an intended operation for the Transmitter or not. The extra power flow is properly calculated so the 400RF/tick going into the machine also means that 400RF/tick is drawn from the Wireless Capacitor.

If this is intended then this topic can be deleted.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Haven't encountered this one yet, but I've been so anal over the years that when going from one form to another I've always used some sort of storage, I.e. a capacitor to avoid potential issues.

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

I have found a Bug of sorts that involves an (unintended???)interaction between the Actually Additions Wireless RF Transmitter and the Ender IO Energy Conduits. This bug causes the Wireless RF Transmitter to treat each segment of Ender IO conduit as a separate energy requiring device. This means that if you have 4 pieces of ender io conduit attached to an energy using machine, and use a Wireless RF Transmitter to send it power, the device will receive 400RF/tick instead of the intended 80RF/tick due to each segment of conduit receiving and transferring an additional 80RF/tick each to the machine.

I don't know if this is an intended operation for the Transmitter or not. The extra power flow is properly calculated so the 400RF/tick going into the machine also means that 400RF/tick is drawn from the Wireless Capacitor.

If this is intended then this topic can be deleted.

Just one thing: I believe the Wireless RF transmitter is ExtraUtilities2, not Actually Additions.

 

[Jakalth]

@GamerwithnoGame Oh! Your right! It is Extra Utilites 2. I'll update the post and title to correct this. I've been working a lot with actually additions so I got my mods crossed... :\

Good catch. But the oddity is the same though wether it is a bug or intended is not known.

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

@GamerwithnoGame Oh! Your right! It is Extra Utilites 2. I'll update the post and title to correct this. I've been working a lot with actually additions so I got my mods crossed... :\

Good catch. But the oddity is the same though wether it is a bug or intended is not known.

Yeah, you're absolutely right, its definitely a thing!

Now, I don't know about "as intended", but its certainly not unexpected (to me at least), and here's why: In Direwolf20's last Forgecraft series, this behaviour was noticed and taken advantage of - they used a single piece of conduit sticking out of one side of the block they wanted to power wirelessly like a sort of... "aerial", for picking up RF from the transmitter. Now, they never tried more than one piece of conduit for this, as far as I remember, BUT it does stand to reason that if one can act like that, then each one will act in the same way. Does that make sense? My guess would be that its not intended behaviour, but is one of those odd mod interactions.

 

[zBob]

I didn't realize that each item would receive 80 rf/t, I thought the transmitter was only capable of sending that amount so I assumed that would be divided between all the possible recipients . I will be interested in testing that some myself as I have only used it for simple things in the way off corners of my base, like that elevator block just above the bedrock layer.

I know it is able to detect energy receivers in its 3 or 4 block area of effect, from your post I am wondering why you are using energy conduits along with the wireless transmitter? Not sure it can be solved as each conduit could receive power from a source so they will all be possible targets for the transmitter. If you are trying to find a work around you could put the transmitter where it can only reach a small energy storage block and run the conduits from there or place it so it can only reach one energy conduit and that will be able to feed the line it is connected to.