Plasma generators stop accepting cells when connected to more than one machine?

[viveleroi]

I have been setting up Plasma gens to power some centrifuge plants getting ready to run my fusion reactor continuously. I have temporarily made some plasma cells and have placed them into the plasma generators.

I have three generators - all connected to some AESUs via HV cable. I've noticed that the generators that are powering two AESUs stop working after the first cell is complete - they refuse to begin processing the next cell and I have to wrench and re-place before it will take a cell again.

The AESU is not full, the empty cell slot is not full. However, the generators that's only powering a single AESU (not two), does not have this issue.

What am I doing wrong? Hopefully pumping in the plasma once this is up and running won't be a prob

 

[Pandemoneus]

Could you please post a screenshot of your setup please?

 

[viveleroi]

http://d.pr/i/RKHF

This is luckily just a temporary setup as far as the generators go, but:

- Plasma generators are setup with output side connected to the HV cable block.
- The hv cable connects each generator to one, or two AESUs.
- The AESUs power (at 512eu) a row of industrial centrifuges (2 overclockers, 2 transformer upgrades each, meaning each row needs it's own dedicated 512 supply)
- The cent's should be running all the time (aside from this power issue).
- The AESU and the Output slot of the Plasma Gen are not at all full.

Which leads to the problem:

- If a plasma gen is connected via HV wire to more than one AESU, it stops after processing a single cell-worth of plasma. No matter how many cells are put in at first, or later, it has to be wrenched and re-placed before it will process another cell.

 

[viveleroi]

Additionally, I have two plasma gens connected via hv wire to my energy injectors and they too stop accepting cells after the first one. Normally I'd be pumping plasma to them but until the power issues are solved for the deuterium banks, I can't sustain the reactor.

 

[Siro]

No idea why cells are stopping from that image, but have you tried emptying the cell into the generator via a liquiduct/transposer or similar? Or poke them with a portable scanner to see what's wrong.

Also, you could probably save a large chunk of energy and space by exporting/importing to two routers that serves all the centrifuges instead of directly to each one.

http://i.imgur.com/YNbU8yi.png

Hidden behind the wall are the connections for the power and furnaces to connect up the top and bottom row and electrolyzers and water supply for the electrolyzers. The 3 routers on the left side handle exporting empty cells & hydrogen cells and importing deuterium cells. I know it's not yet at the point of providing continual fuel, but I'm still working on my he-3 line.

 

[QuantumPugilist]

Which modpack version are you running?

I've not gotten up to fusion in the 1.5.2 pack yet, but in 1.4.7 I had plasma generators feeding 20 AESUs via glass fiber cable.

Have you tried cycling the generators entirely manually? Place cell, remove cell, place cell, etc. Another thing to try would be pumping plasma directly from the reactor to the generators via liquiducts.