After watching one of DireWolf20's videos where they toured Rorax's base, I wanted to build a tower of dynamos with a energy conduit between them all and being fed the lava from the sides. But I've noticed a problem with it. After the energy cell has nearly filled up, most of the dynamos went to a low state of only pumping out 4rf/t which is what I want them to do. But like 1-3 of the dynamos is still pumping at full power. It seems like my system is draining a lot more energy from specific dynamos for no apparent reason, rather than draining from all of them at once. As a result I'm burning through a lot more fuel than normal as all these engines are running at max speed. I have already tried to replace the dynamos as well as the cell and cables. Currently running direwolf's 1.6.4 modpack on latest version. any advice is appreciated.
Issue with TE Dynamos
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If you have some staying at full power, it means your system is drawing that much. If you disconnected the output from your energy cell and let it fill, all of your dynamos would go into the idle mode. They don't use much, but they still use fuel even idling. If you really want to save fuel, you use one energy cell as a buffer. Have your engines turn off when it us full, and kick on when it is almost empty. Not sure what the best way to do that in the Dire pack is though. I've heard comparators can read the state of energy cells.
So if I'm hearing you right, The dynamos won't draw evenly from all the engines, they'll get requested for more energy and will try to provide despite how much the others are outputting. I'll have to look into comparators as it seems they changed how gates interact with energy cells.
If you're making a ton of dynamos that are constantly drawing even a small amount of fuel, you're going to end up wasting a lot. I recomend setting up a redstone comparator to the energy cell then use MFR Rednet to get the sidnal strength and relay it to the dynamos to turn them off. The fuller the Energy Cell is, the more dynamos that get turned off so you effectively only have dynamos running when you're drawing that much power. It works rather well and I would recomend doing it otherewise you're going to waste a lot of fuel.
You power the steam dynamos for free (not including the metal it takes to build) if you use a Fatorization mirror setup to generate all your steam and keep it in tanks. I highly recommend that set up provided you have the metal for it.
Your fuel consumption would not change if dynamo's performed the way you want them to(All slightly powering up instead of most staying low power and a few going max power) because the energy consumption scales exactly as far as I know. It also does account for the small amount of RF produced by low powered engines which is why "full power" might be something more along the lines for 70 RF/t rather than 80 because your system can't accept the full 80.
If I remember that episode correctly those were all energy cells an no dynamos. Also RF systems act a certain way in a direct line. Meaning from one end to another. Describing it to you here would just be a huge wall of text. But if you make some loops in your system to make it less linear it generally makes everything in the system run one an even footing.
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Anytime I have had multiple dynamos, generally a single one will throttle up as you require power. Then 2 and so on. You will have several idling and some at full power. They won't all run at the same speed unless they are all idling or at full power.