Fusion reactor
- Thread starter Shakie666
- Start date
-
The FTB Forum is now read-only, and is here as an archive. To participate in our community discussions, please join our Discord! https://ftb.team/discord
I assume the lack of any response means that no-one uses fusion reactors (understandable considering their cost), but it means that i'm alone in this venture 
. I have seen guides regarding fusion reactors but they were all made before the reactors were updated.
. I have seen guides regarding fusion reactors but they were all made before the reactors were updated.Oh, OK! Well then.
- Attach superconductor wire to both output sides of the reactor and link them together: you'll have two 1 000 000EU packets pulsed through the system regularly
- Hook 16 supercondensators to the supercondensator
- Hook 16 HV Transformers to the supercondensator
At that point you will output 32768EU/t. Hook it to your storage. A wise man will set this system up to output 32768EU/t from storage as well.
Edit: Apparently the supercondensators are not required but I'm not certain leaving them out is optimal, although it's certainly less expensive.
- Attach superconductor wire to both output sides of the reactor and link them together: you'll have two 1 000 000EU packets pulsed through the system regularly
- Hook 16 HV Transformers to the supercondensator
At that point you will output 32768EU/t. Hook it to your storage. A wise man will set this system up to output 32768EU/t from storage as well.
Edit: Apparently the supercondensators are not required but I'm not certain leaving them out is optimal, although it's certainly less expensive.
Oh, OK! Well then.
- Attach superconductor wire to both output sides of the reactor and link them together: you'll have two 1 000 000EU packets pulsed through the system regularly
- Hook 16 supercondensators to the supercondensator
- Hook 16 HV Transformers to the supercondensator
At that point you will output 32768EU/t. Hook it to your storage. A wise man will set this system up to output 32768EU/t from storage as well.
supercondensators are redundant, just use 16 HV transformers per output slot. I have no idea if you actually get double the EU out by using both output slots, first I've heard about it but I'm sure someone else will come in and confirm that either way.
The way I did it to save my costs (We had nowhere near the billions of storage, we just piped it into a matter fab for now and are working on upgrading storage from that) was to only make 2 crafts of superconductor wires, have them go straight up from their output slot, and from the top down attach a hv transformer on each side of the wire for 4 wires worth, then just use glass fibre to carry that into our matter fab (or your storage).
Actually had done some testing on this specific thing not long ago. You actually need a lot of HV transformers hooked to the superconductor wires (EV side to wire), and then connect the HV output with fiber cable, not a storage block directly. As soon as I did that, it was flowing great.
Screenshots of the setup I was working on to automate the reactor tending and power extraction. Big wall of superconductor wire closest to tower is all HV transformers and right on the other side is all glass fiber cabling going over to the various storage blocks I had set up. Relay tower is on a matter fab to eat up juice so storage wouldn't fill up. The setup was actually working perfectly once I got the power extraction problem solved. I do not know why you have to wire > HV > cable > storage. All I know is it works and the internals for my power core to drive my entire base build are mostly done now.
Hope this helps.
Edit: A link to the thread I was discussing this and got helpful suggestions to solve the problem.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/tinkering-with-fusion-reactors.10134/
Screenshots of the setup I was working on to automate the reactor tending and power extraction. Big wall of superconductor wire closest to tower is all HV transformers and right on the other side is all glass fiber cabling going over to the various storage blocks I had set up. Relay tower is on a matter fab to eat up juice so storage wouldn't fill up. The setup was actually working perfectly once I got the power extraction problem solved. I do not know why you have to wire > HV > cable > storage. All I know is it works and the internals for my power core to drive my entire base build are mostly done now.
Hope this helps.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/tinkering-with-fusion-reactors.10134/
LOTs of EU storage devices. Depending on the power draw of the base as a whole or whatever you have on the system beyond storage you could need tons of the largest possible storage. IDSUs are shared so only 1B there so stacks of AESUs probably the next best bet.
Or an IDSU into a matter fab. Let's be honest when are you going to use more than 1billion eu at once.
someone's going to make something that uses over 1 billion eu now. with centrifuges.
Well I figure if you're going to run 5 fusion reactors, an IDSU just doesn't hack it for your needs. Also never let power go to waste is one of my mantras. I'll build huge power storage areas just to not lose a bit of generated power. I figure if my power stops generating for whatever reason I want to be good for a long long time. At least as long as I think it'll take me to rebuild the power generation side of the house from scratch.