How to increase EU/t?

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WaterTipper

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I've tried looking this up on the wiki, but it didn't give much info.

Currently I have an energy setup with 12 Thermal Generators, wired up to an MFE with 2x insulated gold cables.
I need at least 128 EU/t, but I'm a little short at about 122 EU/t.

How do I increase this EU/t?
Is it cumulative? Will adding more Thermals increase it?
Or do I need a different source of power entirely?
 
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arentol

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Your problem should be solved by using better cables. You probably have a run of more than 12 gold wires. That is costing you at least 5 e/u per tick from each generator.. far more if the run is longer.

Use glass fibre cables for stone or all of your cabling and you should be fine.

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WaterTipper

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I did an EU reading on the gold cable adjacent to the MFE's output, and it still said 122 EU/t.
I'll still try the glass fiber cables though.
 
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arentol

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EU is transmitted in discrete packets and loss caused by inferior cable is per packet. So if each thermal machine is outputting 24 EU/t then each tick your MFE is going to receive 12 packets of 24 EU - 1 EU per 2.5 lengths 2x insulated gold cable.

The good news is that there is actually a cheaper solution than fibre cable (I was busy and didn't have time to go into detail when I suggested that earlier, but I still recommend using it over gold wire at all times outside the very early game)... Run 3 lengths of copper cable 4 long each from each of 3 input sides of the MFE and connect your generators directly to those. Because each run is only 4 long and copper cable only lose 1 EU per 5 continually connected lengths you will have no loss at all. The copper cables EU limit is 32 EU so you would think 4 thermal generators would overload it, but that limit is per packet, so it actually will have no problem at all with the 4 separate generators which output less than 32 EU each.

Fibre cable should then be used for the MFE output. Or if you want gold could work as well because a loss of 1 per 2.5 cables matters less with the 128 EU packets the MFE will be outputting than with the small packets of the generators. But I would use glass fibre.

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