Force engines only running with redstone?

[Poppycocks]

the problem is that i have one liquiduct line with milk and one with forceliquid :/ so i have no really decent setup :c[DOUBLEPOST=1378395576][/DOUBLEPOST]

Great setup, do you have a liquiduct one? XD

Nope!

However, what you can do is pump both the water and force trough a single liquiduct. You just have to switch liquids.

The problem here would be getting the ratios right, so that one or the other doesn't win over. Certainly an overengineered project which'll make you lose more space than you saved. Fun though.

would a cookie suffice?

I have some cake next to me, would that suffice?

 

[Siro]

pictures would be really nice guys, if you could post them so i see your setups

this is how mine looks so far. I want to use every 4 sides of the redstone conduit but as i said the liquiducts get in the way. i might try the rednet cable thing, but its kinda slow :/

Rednet cable is instantaneous, and just conducts redstone signal. You're probably thinking of transfer pipe and transfer nodes. The rednet cable is for turning your engines off or on (what you're using redstone blocks for). The advantage of using (highly upgraded) transfer nodes with transfer pipe is to supply both liquids via one pipe in a more compact setup.

 

[Albeleo]

pictures would be really nice guys, if you could post them so i see your setups

this is how mine looks so far. I want to use every 4 sides of the redstone conduit but as i said the liquiducts get in the way. i might try the rednet cable thing, but its kinda slow :/

You would only need slight modifications to your current setup to use all four sides of the conduit.

Dump the redstone blocks; you can transmit a redstone signal more cheaply with rednet cable or even just vanilla redstone wire/torches/repeaters.

Alternate your liquiducts to compactly supply the engines. By that, I mean run one liquiduct with liquid force on top of the engines on the left of the picture. Add another row of engines on top of the conduit, and now the liquiduct you just pace will be supplying both the left and top rows of engines. Next liquiduct runs above the right row, to the right of the "new" top row of engines, and carries the throttle. Continue to set up in that pattern around the engines and you can get liquid force and throttle to four rows of engines with only four lines of liquiducts.

Add in a redstone signal that hits the back side of the engines (the only face that should be open at this point) and you are set.

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[GamerBeast]

Yea ive ffigured it all out now. Thanks guys!

 

[Loufmier]

I have some cake next to me, would that suffice?

it`s not a question you should address to me.

 

[PureEvil]

Oh I see your point, the lava liquiducit could be my force liquiduct, and the rednet cable could be my milk liquiduct and then i just slap some redstone blocks behind the engines. Did I get it?

yes, that's what I meant, glad you got it working.

 

[Vauthil]

On the subject of transfer nodes... this is my extraordinarily slipshod Force Engine setup on the principle of using the ExtraUtils nodes. Check if you can see how many different things the same conduit line is handling:

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Note: I ended up specifically using conduit for my squeezers because of the constant pull the squeezers were requiring and using. The ExtraUtils stuff does a "seek and drop off" setup that works best with machines with internal buffers (MFR, TE), and so I can power the ranchers via the transfer nodes, but it's not a good bet for the squeezers.

As I noted, extremely slipshod. I did it very quickly largely just to have something mechanical going on outside my sad little house (I haven't gotten to just "play the game" a lot lately).