Geothermal Generator

[Htbrdd]

Im rather confused about the out put from a geothermal generator. I have lava being pumped into the generator and it will charge if i place an item in the generator. But if i add copper cable or gold cable (uninsulated) and run that to a batbox the batbox never sees the input and never recharges. The bat box is about 15-20 block away is that the problem or something else? Thanks

 

[Bickers]

you shouldnt use copper for anything more then 5 blocks and never use gold cable unless its MV is the geo connected to the correct side of the batbox? the dot is output and rest are input

 

[MrZwij]

Sounds like something is miswired (BTW, copper cable is your best choice in that scenario). Remember a batbox accepts power through all the faces that DON'T have a dot on them. A screenshot would probably help if that's not the problem.[DOUBLEPOST=1360337366][/DOUBLEPOST]

you shouldnt use copper for anything more then 5 blocks and never use gold cable unless its MV is the geo connected to the correct side of the batbox? the dot is output and rest are input

Copper loses 1 EU per 5 blocks - he'll lose a bit of power, but the batbox should still charge.

 

[Bickers]

Sounds like something is miswired (BTW, copper cable is your best choice in that scenario). Remember a batbox accepts power through all the faces that DON'T have a dot on them. A screenshot would probably help if that's not the problem.[DOUBLEPOST=1360337366][/DOUBLEPOST]
Copper loses 1 EU per 5 blocks - he'll lose a bit of power, but the batbox should still charge.

that is why i asked if its connected to correct side and for EU loss i hate looseing EU so i was stateing that he will have loss this can be circumvented by adding more batboxes

 

[Htbrdd]

I can get a screen shot when i get home from work. What do you mean by mv? Yes it is connected to the bottom of the batbox and i see the dot above. I have the wiring coming out of the left side of the geothermal generator. Should i try a different cable?[DOUBLEPOST=1360347622][/DOUBLEPOST]maybe i should do geothermal->batbox->cable>batbox>elec furnace? would that maybe work better?

 

[Bickers]

I can get a screen shot when i get home from work. What do you mean by mv? Yes it is connected to the bottom of the batbox and i see the dot above. I have the wiring coming out of the left side of the geothermal generator. Should i try a different cable?[DOUBLEPOST=1360347622][/DOUBLEPOST]maybe i should do geothermal->batbox->cable>batbox>elec furnace? would that maybe work better?

that would work good and would give a nice 80k eu buffer on the 2 batboxes MV is 128 eu/t same as what is outputted from a MFE batboxes are 32 eu/t so there LV almost all machines are LV inputting any higher cause them to explode

 

[Htbrdd]

Thanks guys adding the second batbox got it working.