I had cable fires at LV until I did what Pyure said - I began using 4x Tin Cable with 4-battery Buffer Boxes. Fires were rare, the much more common problem was that a machine would not have enough amps and would get stuck in that endless loop making that horrible sound.
Starting at my Railcraft Steam Tank, I have 4 Tank Valves with an Ender IO fluid conduit attached to each one. These conduits then combine into one line and goes directly to 4 GT LV Steam Turbines. On the output side of the Turbines, 4x Tin Cable connects all 4 Turbines together and then I place my first 4-battery Buffer Box. After that comes 4 pieces of 4x Tin Cable in a straight line. On the 4 cables, I place 8 GT LV machines - 4 in front of the cable on the floor, and 4 directly on top of the cable. Then comes another 4-battery Buffer Box, then another 4 lengths of 4x Tin Cable with 8 more machines, then another Buffer Box, etc.
The 4 valves on the Railcraft tank were important. My batteries in the Buffer Boxes kept running down without it - the Turbines weren't getting enough steam quickly enough. Each Ender IO conduit-to-valve connection can handle 200 millibuckets of steam per tick, but the conduit itself can transmit 800 mb per tick, thus we need 4 valves on the tank with 4 extracting Ender IO conduits.
You might not need a Buffer Box every four lengths of cable, that just seemed like a good compromise to me. You might be able to just use one Buffer Box right at the beginning of the line and not use any of the subsequent Buffers, but I didn't experiment to see. I had the materials so I went ahead and built multiple Buffer Boxes and batteries just to be safe and never have to worry about machines running out of power. It really depends how many machines you have in operation at the same time (which is another way of saying how many amps you are drawing at any one time).
Starting at my Railcraft Steam Tank, I have 4 Tank Valves with an Ender IO fluid conduit attached to each one. These conduits then combine into one line and goes directly to 4 GT LV Steam Turbines. On the output side of the Turbines, 4x Tin Cable connects all 4 Turbines together and then I place my first 4-battery Buffer Box. After that comes 4 pieces of 4x Tin Cable in a straight line. On the 4 cables, I place 8 GT LV machines - 4 in front of the cable on the floor, and 4 directly on top of the cable. Then comes another 4-battery Buffer Box, then another 4 lengths of 4x Tin Cable with 8 more machines, then another Buffer Box, etc.
The 4 valves on the Railcraft tank were important. My batteries in the Buffer Boxes kept running down without it - the Turbines weren't getting enough steam quickly enough. Each Ender IO conduit-to-valve connection can handle 200 millibuckets of steam per tick, but the conduit itself can transmit 800 mb per tick, thus we need 4 valves on the tank with 4 extracting Ender IO conduits.
You might not need a Buffer Box every four lengths of cable, that just seemed like a good compromise to me. You might be able to just use one Buffer Box right at the beginning of the line and not use any of the subsequent Buffers, but I didn't experiment to see. I had the materials so I went ahead and built multiple Buffer Boxes and batteries just to be safe and never have to worry about machines running out of power. It really depends how many machines you have in operation at the same time (which is another way of saying how many amps you are drawing at any one time).
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