Hobbyist Steam engine question

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Antmf

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Hi all playing Direwolfs pack and made a hobbyist steam engine filled with water and coal and it it heating up but it doesnt appear to be sending energy via the gold conductive pipes I have connected to my Pulverizer. The engine isnt even going up and down like in his video that I saw. Can anyone shed light on this? It is almost full of MJ and still nothing...
 

Darkprince97

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You need to put some Wooden Conductive pipes attached to the engine, you can't send the energy directly into the golden conductive pipes
 

Antmf

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Ok I have one wooden cond pipe to engine and rest gold pipes to pulv. and still nothing. The engine is hot but not going up and down like I saw in video and still no energy being transported...
 

Bibble

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Right, the required setup for power transfer:
1. Hobbyist engine must be supplied with water and something combustible.
2. The piston must be facing a wooden conductive pipe.
3. This pipe must be connected to a machine, either directly, or via a golden conductive pipe.
4. A redstone signal must be applied to the engine.
5. The engine must be hot enough to produce steam (100 degrees).
6. The engine must be at least half full of steam.

If you've got all these, you should be good to go.
 
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Oxyde89

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Hi guys,
Have a doubt with this Hobbyist, since it produce steam is possible to take it to use in another engine?
Or what is the best Engine to produce steam? so i can use it to ignite the others
I'm new in all this mods.
Thanks.
 

Henry Link

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So that engine only produces steam for its own use. So if you want to produce steam look at a railcraft boiler or extreme reactors (set in steam mode) or some other mod that can produce steam. Steam engines like the hobbyist, commercial and industrial convert steam to power. Something else must be used to produce the steam. In the case of the hobbyist engine it can produce its own steam.