Possible to auto-regulate power of Ender Quarry?

[Benie76]

Pack: Direwolf20 1.3.1

I have an Ender Quarry in The Deep Dark, but it tends to suck up a lot of my power when enabled. My AE2 network (as it stands now) takes almost 100 RF. When this kicks in, it's taking 5,120 RF(the maximum output of an Enhanced Energy Conduit.. so it probably eats away even more power than that).

Currently using Tesseracts to move power from my base to the Ender Quarry. And I want to know if it's possible to make a Turtle to do so. Just something that will turn it off when the quarry reaches a certain level of power, then turn it back on. Yet also check if said power is available back in my base.
I have a Turtle already regulating my main power. So.. the two Turtles may need to talk to eachother somehow through dimensions.

I only have two Magmatic Dynamos, both with all three RF upgrades. They give me just over 1k RF/t, and I don't know how many more I'm going to need to combat this power drain. Plus I can see how the lava in the Nether is going to drain even further.

I am thinking of combining them with Steam Dynamos to lessen the amount of Lava that gets drained. Yet I don't know if they're just as good or worse in producing power.

I just want to be able to regulate the power of the quarry, so I'm not forced to do an insane power network with power cables going everywhere, JUST to keep it running (and the machines, and my Network).

 

[Harvest88]

Using conduits/ducts you can feed the power you wish to the quarry. Take for instance the harden fluxducts, they have a output/input of 800RF/T so if you wanted your quarry not to cosume more than say 2.4kRF/t then you could hook up 3x Harden Fluxduct connections to feed it that much power.

 

[Benie76]

So I did a few tests, and discovered the quarry alone is taking 8,720 RF/t. Exactly how many Dynamos am I going to need to combat this with all three RF upgrades? And remind you, this is the quarry alone.
Doesn't include the machines or the AE2 Network.

 

[asb3pe]

Put a Tesseract to send power, then in between the Tess and Quarry put a Redstone Energy Cell. Open the Cell's GUI and decrease the Output to as low as you wish. In current versions the Resonant Energy Cells output 32,000 RF/t but you can output as low as 5 RF/t increments. I think hold Shift key to change Output by 1000 and hold Ctrl key to change it by 5. A click with no key press is 50 RF I think.

The Cell will act as a power buffer allowing you to "dial in" how much power you want to send to the Quarry from your power network.

In my experience, a Big Reactor will be what you want to use for your EnderQuarry eventually, not dynamos. The quarry can really suck down the power, 20,000 RF/t with the top-tier speed upgrade on it.

 

[Benie76]

Ok. I'm not exactly sure how that's going to work. The first one (in my base) is set to send power, and the one (in The Deep Dark) is set to receive power.

Can I still do this?

 

[knn03]

Yes, everything is the same except on the quarry side you add a redstone energy cell. [Tesseract]==>[Energy Cell]==>[Quarry]

 

[Benie76]

Alright, cool. I will let you guys know if this works.

 

[ChemE]

The suggestion to regulate the power flow rate into the quarry with an energy cell is spot on and exactly how I would do it if I were strapped for power and still wanted to run an ender quarry albeit very slowly. As others have said eventually you may wish to generate much larger amounts of power; I consider 1,000 RF/t late early game to early mid game power gen. In my current SMP world I have been having fun running turbines from Big Reactors without using a reactor to generate the steam. 5 steam boilers from MFR will generate exactly 2,000 mB/t if fed lava buckets from an MFR lava fabricator/TE4 fluid transposer duo. You can power the lava fab off an energy cell to boot strap things but once the turbine is spinning the lava fab only needs 800RF/t tops and should run directly off your power grid or one of the turbines. One lava fab can keep 10 boilers running which can keep 2 turbines spinning which is good for 56,000 RF/t fully upgraded. So call it 55,000RF/t profit with no fuel to mine or process; pretty sweet. This lends itself well to ME^4 or a void base in which you want to make something from nothing.

 

[Benie76]

Alright. The Energy Cell seems to be working. Thanks so much, guys. Now I can leave my quarry running.

 

[Type1Ninja]

The suggestion to regulate the power flow rate into the quarry with an energy cell is spot on and exactly how I would do it if I were strapped for power and still wanted to run an ender quarry albeit very slowly. As others have said eventually you may wish to generate much larger amounts of power; I consider 1,000 RF/t late early game to early mid game power gen. In my current SMP world I have been having fun running turbines from Big Reactors without using a reactor to generate the steam. 5 steam boilers from MFR will generate exactly 2,000 mB/t if fed lava buckets from an MFR lava fabricator/TE4 fluid transposer duo. You can power the lava fab off an energy cell to boot strap things but once the turbine is spinning the lava fab only needs 800RF/t tops and should run directly off your power grid or one of the turbines. One lava fab can keep 10 boilers running which can keep 2 turbines spinning which is good for 56,000 RF/t fully upgraded. So call it 55,000RF/t profit with no fuel to mine or process; pretty sweet. This lends itself well to ME^4 or a void base in which you want to make something from nothing.

Do you know if an Igneous Extruder + Magma Crucible + Fluid Transposer setup would be better? People keep talking about the Lava Fab, but having done a bit of math it seems like it consumes 2,000,000 RF/bucket, while the Magma Crucible only consumes 320,000.

 

[Inaeo]

The suggestion to regulate the power flow rate into the quarry with an energy cell is spot on and exactly how I would do it if I were strapped for power and still wanted to run an ender quarry albeit very slowly. As others have said eventually you may wish to generate much larger amounts of power; I consider 1,000 RF/t late early game to early mid game power gen. In my current SMP world I have been having fun running turbines from Big Reactors without using a reactor to generate the steam. 5 steam boilers from MFR will generate exactly 2,000 mB/t if fed lava buckets from an MFR lava fabricator/TE4 fluid transposer duo. You can power the lava fab off an energy cell to boot strap things but once the turbine is spinning the lava fab only needs 800RF/t tops and should run directly off your power grid or one of the turbines. One lava fab can keep 10 boilers running which can keep 2 turbines spinning which is good for 56,000 RF/t fully upgraded. So call it 55,000RF/t profit with no fuel to mine or process; pretty sweet. This lends itself well to ME^4 or a void base in which you want to make something from nothing.

I approve. This setup is sound, and in fact generates more water than it uses in steam if you vent the water from the turbine. This makes it easy to keep a drum of water (to be used as a buffer in case of sudden large draw) hooked to a ender tank for water on demand. If you keep the turbine set to void excess, it won't affect the turbine production rate when your buffer is full.

I currently use a pair of turbines fed by the above mentioned lava bucket system. I have had up to 14 Steam Boilers running off the system at once, and I'm pretty sure there is room for one more boiler (remember that 5 can feed a turbine) on a single fabricator/transposer system, meaning I can get three turbines (@~28krf/t each) running for free.

 

[Inaeo]

Do you know if an Igneous Extruder + Magma Crucible + Fluid Transposer setup would be better? People keep talking about the Lava Fab, but having done a bit of math it seems like it consumes 2,000,000 RF/bucket, while the Magma Crucible only consumes 320,000.

I tried the Crucible at one point, but I wasn't getting the results I needed. Perhaps its worth another look now that I have refined my systems a bit. I know the math works better if you have a large supply of netherrack, but unless you're quarrying the nether, its a limited commodity.

 

[Type1Ninja]

I tried the Crucible at one point, but I wasn't getting the results I needed. Perhaps its worth another look now that I have refined my systems a bit. I know the math works better if you have a large supply of netherrack, but unless you're quarrying the nether, its a limited commodity.

In my version it works with cobble. 1 Cobble = 1 Full bucket of Lava, for 320,000 RF (unless I read the number wrong). You could upgrade it with augments to make it faster as well, and I think the same augments also increase efficiency (but I might be wrong).

EDIT: Just to be clear, the boilers produce EXACTLY 400 mb/t, right?
DOUBLEEDIT: Could it be made more efficient with smooth stone, using a small amount of lava for each block, but then returning that for a larger amount?

 

[ChemE]

Yes, the boilers produce EXACTLY 400 mB/t. I make 5 turbine fluid ports and put the 5 steam boilers directly against them. They will automatically expel the 400 mB/t of steam into the turbine w/o any piping needed. That turbine will stay absolutely rock solid at 28,059 RF/t with 32 ludicrite coil blocks and 80 turbine blades. I don't know whether the magma crucible is fast enough to keep up with demand, two turbines do require a pretty good bit of lava to stay at speed. I should mention that to save on space/complexity I handle getting water to the boilers, lava buckets to the boilers, and empty buckets from the boilers all with SFM. One inventory manager, one lava fab, and one fluid transposer (resonant with all three speed upgrades), keeps 10 steam boilers full of water and 4 lava buckets. I keep a 21st lava bucket in the fluid transposer's output slot.

EDIT: Looks like a magma crucible takes 40 seconds to make a bucket of lava. That is far too slow to keep 10 boilers at temperature. You would probably need 10 magma crucibles to keep up with 10 steam boilers.

 

[Type1Ninja]

Yes, the boilers produce EXACTLY 400 mB/t. I make 5 turbine fluid ports and put the 5 steam boilers directly against them. They will automatically expel the 400 mB/t of steam into the turbine w/o any piping needed. That turbine will stay absolutely rock solid at 28,059 RF/t with 32 ludicrite coil blocks and 80 turbine blades. I don't know whether the magma crucible is fast enough to keep up with demand, two turbines do require a pretty good bit of lava to stay at speed. I should mention that to save on space/complexity I handle getting water to the boilers, lava buckets to the boilers, and empty buckets from the boilers all with SFM. One inventory manager, one lava fab, and one fluid transposer (resonant with all three speed upgrades), keeps 10 steam boilers full of water and 4 lava buckets. I keep a 21st lava bucket in the fluid transposer's output slot.

EDIT: Looks like a magma crucible takes 40 seconds to make a bucket of lava. That is far too slow to keep 10 boilers at temperature. You would probably need 10 magma crucibles to keep up with 10 steam boilers.

Thankd for clearing that up. Love the use of SFM, by the way.