Help with Power Converters

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Murk02

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Okay, so my question is simple. Is it possible to run more than one of the same producer using the same input?
I have 2 steam boilers powered off biofuel creating steam, which this goes into 1 liquid tesseract. I then used that tesseract to provide steam into a Steam Consumer(Power Converters) into an Energy Bridge and then into a BC producer creating MJ into some redstone energy cells. Since I have almost an infinite amount of biofuel and steam now thanks to MFR, I wanted to set up multiple BC producers to max out my MJ output, however when I link one up with a separate set of power converters and separate tesseract, it shuts the other one off? Does anyone know a way around this or one my best bet be to just use steam engines? I just liked having everything compact!

Thanks for any help![DOUBLEPOST=1375114221][/DOUBLEPOST]Just wanted to provide images for extra help. thanks!
 

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Benjywa

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It looks like you have a problem on the input side.

I.E. your tesseracts are only receiving 160 steam so you can only have 1 producer running on that rubbish input. You should be chucking 1440 steam into that tesseract and 720 to each steam consumer but you are not.

even if only one of these were on and 1 off you would be kicking out more power

I may be being dense but don't most setups have 9 liquiduct outputs into 5 input faces on the tesseract... I am guessing this is for a reason - I have a setup where boiler steam is direct into the consumer and have to hook up on 5 faces to get input correct

MOR inputs into tesseract and let us know
 

Murk02

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Hm.. I thought liquiducts were the best way to send and receive liquids. How would I maximize my steam output? The boilers both sit at 1,152,000 of steam constantly even with the quarry running at the 32MJ that the BC producer is outputting. So I don't think it's a question of my input side of biofuel or water. Just not sure how I would take it out faster.
Sorry, I've been playing FTB for a good long time now, but I've never had an issue with drawing liquids like this before. I'm sure I'm sounding like a noob!

EDIT: Okay, so I was poking around the Wiki and there is a limit on energy tesseracts which is 100 MJ, but as far as I can tell, there is no limit to liquid tesseracts. I could be wrong though, the wiki isn't always 100% correct
 

Murk02

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Ughhh. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.. Even with two tesseracts..
 

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Murk02

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Well.. I wish I would not have wasted your time man, but I appreciate your help. For what it's worth, I will go ahead and say what I did wrong, incase someone else might have the same problem. I had the right set up to begin with. However, those power converters only supply you with the exact amount of power that is being used, with the exception of how many liquiducts you have in each side of the tesseract or the steam consumer. So, to test it, I turned my redstone energy cells to 100MJ/tick (max for quarry), and sure enough, the power converters supplied the cells with 100MJ. Shew -_-'