Geothermal Generator issues

[GrimmDraco]

I hope this is the right section to ask this question, if not I'm sorry. I have only been playing Minecraft for about 1 week now, I've been playing the FTB and loving it, so thank you for that! My question is regarding the Geothermal Generator.
I've built a pump, pumped out the lava into my tanks and now have 2 Geothermal Generators standing by to accept the lava. Problem is, I cannot seem to link the lava to the gen's. I've tried wooden waterproof pipe, cobblestone waterproof pipe and stone waterproof pipe. Nothing seems to be workings. If someone could explain my problem I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Monte86]

Most of the time you will need something to "pull" the liquid/item out of the tank into the geothermal.

I'm not sure on your setup but, you could have a redstone engine connected to the wooden waterproof pipe, which is then connected to the tank and geothermal. You could also just pump the liquid straight into the geothermal generator.

 

[GrimmDraco]

Yes, I tried both hooking a pump up to my waterproof pipes and then into my Geothermal Generators. Nothing happened. The pump did not start pumping (made sure it was powered) and I also tried pumping the lava straight into the Geothermal Generators. It looks on my screen like the pipes are not "hooking" into the Geothermal Generators. Maybe this is how it is supposed to look?

 

[Larroke]

Make sure the solid component of the waterproof pipe is towards the lava tank, if its not hit it with a BC or TE wrench. Put a engine of some type or autarchic gate and your all set.

can you post a Screenshot?

 

[GrimmDraco]

Here are some pictures to help.

 

[potter]

^They look like normal generators to me, not geothermal ones.
Pick them up and upgrade them. Then you need to pipe the lava out using wooden waterproof pipe with a redstone engine on it.
As geothermal ones still output below medium voltage limit, use copper insulated cables for less energy loss than gold ones.

 

[GrimmDraco]

Ahhh geez I'm a moron. I had the 2 Geothermal Generators next to my regular generators in my box..grabbed them by mistake. Thanks so much. God I'm stupid...

 

[potter]

For a week worth of playing and having a whole modpack thrown at you, i'd say it's quite acceptable to make such mistakes ^^,
Good luck anyways!

 

[Monte86]

-edit- to slow at getting my mock up made ;p

yes i remember my first time playing ftb and i tell the same thing to everyone that starts playing it. Mess around with stuff and dont get frustrated if something goes wrong. It just takes time getting used to.

 

[GrimmDraco]

Thanks for the help guys! Seems to be working well now. Only issue is that the redstone engine I installed behind the generators is not working...it's not pumping anything out of the tanks..I will figure it out though I'm sure.

 

[Monte86]

From the picture set up. I never tried but i dont know if you can pump from the bottom of a tank. Also make sure you replaced that cobblestone pipe with a wooden one to connect the redstone engine to.

like this. (Yaa mock up picture time)

 

[potter]

And the thicker brown side of the wooden waterproof pipe needs to be facing the tank. It'll extract from that side.
You can rotate that with right-clicking with a buildcraft wrench ( 3 iron ingots around a stone gear ) .

 

[Larroke]

Is the pipe at the bottom of the tank your output? It appears to be so.. if that's teh case, then it needs to be waterproof wood.

 

[ICountFrom0]

Right, I don't know the texture pack, but those are geothermals, right?
That's gold cable? Geothermal outputs at 20 eu/t, that can go down insulated copper cable with much less power cost.

Okay, tanks don't just unload into waterproof pipes with nothing happening. You need a waterproof wooden pipe to take the lava back out. "OUT" almost always requires a wooden pipe, waterproofed for liquids, and then a redstone engine to power the "pump" that's inside the pipe.

http://minecraftbuildcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Wooden_Waterproof_Pipe

and here

http://minecraftbuildcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Tank

Check those for confirmation.

You where thinking well with a liquid pump, but that's more a "harvester" rather then being responsible for the movement of liquids. It's a machine that turns source blocks of liquid, into liquid in pipes.

Read monte's statement again and you'll notice he also said wooden waterproof pipe, it's the key item you are missing.

(egads I was slow typing that up, sorry)

 

[GrimmDraco]

Outstanding. Thank you guys again for the help. I did not relize it had to be wood pipe. Will change that when I get home from work (stupid work).

 

[ICountFrom0]

Think of wooden pipes in buildcraft as ... interfaces. They connect things "outside" the pipe network with the pipes on the "inside".
This breaks down with machines are contain a way to eject into pipes. Forestry and Thermal Expansion do that for you. There is good news, you can almost never go wrong by adding a wooden pipe where it isn't needed.

 

[GrimmDraco]

Just wanted to update you guys in my setup. I got everything working and added a 2nd tank to store more lava. I'm now running the 2 geothermal generators that provide power to 2 electric furnaces, 2 macerators and 1 squeezer. I've also installed pipes to pump lave to my liquid transposer to fill lava buckets for a couple of projects I have. Once again Ty all for your help!!

 

[Hydra]

For a week worth of playing and having a whole modpack thrown at you, i'd say it's quite acceptable to make such mistakes ^^,
Good luck anyways!

Exactly. My mistakes typically made different size craters. I had to rename one of my first bases to "crater city" due to a little nuclear mishap

 

[Larroke]

Exactly. My mistakes typically made different size craters. I had to rename one of my first bases to "crater city" due to a little nuclear mishap

If our first attempt at this... One of my buddies wanted to clear a mountain near the base, so brilliantly decided to nuke it as it would be less work.

WORST IDEA EVER...

 

[ICountFrom0]

I'm sure there was no mountain anymore.