Magmatic Engine Troubles

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Quite possibly because no energy is being requested. With magmatic engines (and possibly other kinds of engine as well, I'm not sure) connected to conduits, they go into a low-output mode when nothing in the network wants energy. This helps reduce fuel bills when you don't need them.
 
That seemed to be the problem, but now i have another, about 8 of my 64 magmatic engines are putting out above 3 MJ the rest are putting out .4 any reasoning behind that?
 
They suck at balancing the overall output?? Or.. the 8 are closest to the tesseract your teleporting power to. It's can also be the recovering the 25% power loss of the tesseract and keeping the conduits saturation near 100%.
 
redstone signals? I've done that many times with these esp. having liquiducts / conduits near each other and tanks. Also worth checking conduit direction arrows in case.
 
hm.. could be the conduits not being set to orange or more likely conduit oversaturation, either way the good news is the reduced energy output means slowed lava usage. not a total loss at least
 
If the only ones running at full speed are the closest to your lava tank, Id guess you need more connections to the lava tank. Liquiducts can carry a ton of liquid, but are limited where they connect to the tank. I'm running 24 magmatic engines and they required 2 connections to the tank even though one central line feeds them all. Both connections feed a single pipe and this allowed mine to run at full power. Steam works the same way. You need 9 connections to the boiler to get max power to 18 steam engines even though a single liquiduct can carry it all to them.