Is there a way to automate the steam turbine with railcraft?

[Brian Cherrick]

I know it automatically runs, but what I am wondering is if there is a way (unless it does it automatically) that the turbine (the one from railcraft that outputs EU), can be shut off when the mfe it is connected to is full, and turn back on when it's below a certain percentage. Just trying to prevent it from running nonstop, and burning up the disk when I'm not using it.

 

[casilleroatr]

Have you tried using buildcraft gates and an EU splitter cable (not sure if there is a good way of closing off steam supply to the turbine but if the turbine is not outputting power it may sort it automatically)

Place a buildcraft gate on the MFE and hopefully they can still detect the state of the MFE's energy storage. Output a redstone signal based on that to control the splitter cable. And while I am no expert on IC2 there might even be some internal redstone logic for the MFE that is found by pressing a button in the top right corner of the MFE GUI. Could be worth checking out.

 

[ratchet freak]

the thing self regulates to an extent

the MFE has an option to emit a redstone signal when full. you can use the TE liquiducts to stop steam input by using a servo and setting the redstone control

 

[Shabazza]

Steam turbines already regulate their output automaticly to match the power demand of connected power cells or machines.
If you connect an MFE and it's full, the output will go to 0% and it will no longer consume steam.