New FTB player, would appreciate help

[Pixelz]

I have been playing for a few days and have completed my first solar panel. However, a problem came up after I created the first 3 silicon plates, a problem appeared. After that, the only thing that comes up is the text below my heat capacity(this, of course, being my Industrial Blast Furnace)reads the following : ''Insufficient Energy Line''. As far as I know there is nothing wrong with it. My MFE used to be hook up the furnace directly with 8 2x insulated gold cables(Holy EU loss, I know)until it started malfunctioning(Aforementioned problem), so I tried hooking up my MFE to a LV-transformer, then hooking 4 insulated copper cables up to a Batbox and the remaining 3 cables to the furnace, but it still shows that god forsaken text. Could anyone help me?

 

[ICanHazCooKie]

The industrial blast furnace needs a constant 128eu/t to function, moving your mfe closer or using glass fibre cable should solve your problem.

 

[Adonis0]

My advice, disconnect any machines as soon as you notice them displaying that message, and wait for your energy reserves to build up enough power to run them to completion.

What they're doing when they're displaying that, is taking in energy, starting the process, realising it doesn't have enough energy, and restarting the process. So unless you're generating more than they use, then they will chew up literally all the energy you produce.

 

[heggico]

Couple of things. The furnace needs a constant 128eu/t to function. Give it 127 and it will fail. You get your power from an MFE which outputs 128EU/t, so far so good. Then you use gold cable, 8 of them. 2x insulated gold cable has an energy loss of 1EU for every 2.5 blocks. So 8 cables would mean 3EU/t loss, so your furnace will only get 125EU/t. Not enough, so it will fail.
Why it worked for 3 silicon plates? Not sure, it shouldn't have made 3. Did you have 2 mfe's outputting to the same cable? Also make sure to unplug the furnace when that text is displayed and wait for your energy storage to fill up again.

 

[noskk]

The industrial blast furnace has a 100k internal eu storage, so once it's depleted (because you don't provide constant 128 eu/t) you will get that insufficient energy thingie, I'd suggest you to make a specific MFE for the industrial blast furnace.

The other option is to turn off the requirement of constant energy in the config.

 

[heggico]

Ah, stupid. Forgot about the small internal storage. But yeah, just place the mfe closer to the furnace, so you won't have the energy loss.