Let's Talk Laser Drills (1.5.2 Unleashed)

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I decided not to necro billion other threads because of reasons.

Now, from what I can see, 100 MJ/t max per precharger. Does that mean each laser has a maximum 400 MJ/t processing rate?

This means that 500t/ore or 125s? (Two minutes).

Due to my base geometry, I can't do some of the other innovative designs that incorporate multiple drills being redundantly charged by multiple lasers. Though, what is the max distance from the drill that you can have the laser positioned at?

I guess I mainly want to hear about your experiences with laser drills and the antics of using them. Because they produce essentially all the ores you requires, (aside from TiCo, etc.) do you use igneous extruders to satisfy your cobble, or do you have enough stores from your initial quarries, such that you never concern yourself with such things.

I have also just recently started using TE for ore processing, and discovered that all you need is cobble to sustain the entire processes that TE utilizes (cobble into sand, etc.). Significantly different than IC2/GT machines, but puts the game into a new light. Also means I don't have to worry as much about things blowing up in my face, or how to use all that nickel.
 
Try if you can find config file
config\powercrystals\minefactoryreloaded\common.cfg

I'm not sure if it exists in older version like 1.5.2, but there should be line
I:LaserDrillPrecharger.ActivationCostMJ=500
Which naturally means 500 MJ max per precharger.
 
Hmmm, is that for 1.6+ or 1.5.2?

Laser drills did not exist in 1.4.7, hence the earliest release for them was 1.5.2. There are already existing discussions about the energy requirements for them, cross referencing about three times that 100 MJ/t per precharger, was the nominal value.

Please reconfirm. I am not sure what the title of this thread was.
 
Well, 4 prechargers @ 500 MJ/t = 2000 MJ/t.

200 000 MJ/ore / 2000 MJ/t = 100t/ore / 0.25s/t = 25s/ore.
 
In Monster 1.0.9, each pre-charger consumes 5000 RF/t. Using four of them, an ore is created every ~13.5 seconds.