MFR Harvester Bug?

[Pepsimaximo1]

So I set up a harvester from MineFactory Reloaded with a tin upgrade (+2 range radius) to harvest a 7x7 wheat farm and decided to power it with rednet energy cables running from my solar panel. It all worked fine.
I then decided to do some renovating (for some reason, I forget why) and broke the rednet energy cables in doing so. While the cables were broken, I noticed the harvester continued to harvest but it was not draining power (i.e. it was staying at 16000/16000RF while harvesting) despite not being connected to a power source.

I then did some experimenting and from what I've seen, when I first place the harvester (with full power [16000/16000RF], since I broke it with full power) it drains power as it harvests, just like it should. But then as soon as I connect it via rednet energy cables to my solar panel, if I then disconnect it from the solar panel (its only power source) it continues to harvest without draining power.

Does anyone have an explanation for this? Or is it some kind of bug?

 

[alekzcb]

Hi, I know this is a bit old, but this answer is for people from google, since this is the top result for "harvester energy bug".

I was having this problem myself but managed to figure it out with some experimentation. The cables themselves store a small amount of power as well as transporting it, which the harvester drains to continue working. It will finish draining the power after a while, depending on the length of your cable.

You can test this for yourself by getting two pairs of harvesters and power sources, and connecting one pair with a short cable, and another with a long cable. Remove both power sources at the same time, and the harvester with the shorter cable will stop first, because the longer cable has more buffered energy for the harvester to consume. All device that slowly use energy will work in this way.