Magmatic Engine Troubles

[cardshark1234]

Why do they start at 4 MJ and go down to .4? I have conduits hooked up to a tesseract.

 

[ApSciLiara]

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.

 

[cardshark1234]

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?

 

[Harvest88]

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%.

 

[cardshark1234]

They are the 8 closest to my tank.

 

[biomirth]

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.

 

[Adragal]

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

 

[DriftinFool]

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.