[Possibly Stupid] MJ/RF Energy in 1.6.4

[Gregolo]

Prepare yourself for a possibly stupid question, but I can't find any documentation online that really answers my question and I can't really seem to just brute force figure it out in game.

I really like steam boilers, I think they're freaking neat. Especially with a steampunk style build that I'm currently working on.

However, with 1.6.4 (direwolf20) I can't for the life of me figure out how to have the typical (boiler-->engine-->redstone cell) system work. Is my only option the steam dynamos now or is there some way to use the old system?

In a nutshell, I can get steam dynamos to output into a RF cell no problem, but the engines just seem to sit there and not do anything.


Cheers.

 

[SatanicSanta]

Redstone Energy Cells don't store MJ anymore, they store RF. And engines do not create RF, the create MJ. The only way you're gonna properly store MJ (in a similar way to the Batbox or REC) is by using Mekanism energy cubes.

 

[hiroshi42]

Steam Engines do not produce RF which is what all the Thermal expansion things run off.

You can use dynamos instead of steam engines, just slap them onto the boiler and away you go, you don't even need a redstone signal.

 

[Gregolo]

I thought dynamos do the exact same thing as the boiler, no? Can I just put steam into the dynamo from the boiler?

 

[hiroshi42]

I thought dynamos do the exact same thing as the boiler, no? Can I just put steam into the dynamo from the boiler?

They are a little like the hobbyist's engine in that they can accept fuel/water and produce their own steam/power or you can provide them with steam from another source (like RC boilers or Factorization boilers). Unlike the hobbyist engine Dynamos provide the same amount of power from either source.

 

[Gregolo]

Awesome, that makes it all work out. Thanks for the info~

 

[Bentenmaru]

I thought dynamos do the exact same thing as the boiler, no? Can I just put steam into the dynamo from the boiler?

You can put the steam from RC steam boilers into the steam dynamos. have done it on a friends server so they will accept steam

 

[SatanicSanta]

You can put the steam from RC steam boilers into the steam dynamos. have done it on a friends server so they will accept steam

It would be slightly ridiculous for Steam Dynamos to not accept steam

 

[MacAisling]

This is my boiler set up with 35 steam dynamos. The boiler provides the steam, but if it ever runs out of fuel, I've ducted in water & coal to all the dynamos. I still need to finish decorating my lava tank with magmatics.

 

[SandGrainOne]

This is my boiler set up with 35 steam dynamos. The boiler provides the steam, but if it ever runs out of fuel, I've ducted in water & coal to all the dynamos. I still need to finish decorating my lava tank with magmatics.

That is a lot of dynamos on a fairly small Boiler. Is that a balanced setup?

Edit: nvm, I'm dumb, you're even saying that you are providing extra fuel to the Dynamos.

 

[Zarkov]

A steam dynamo now seems to be exactly equivalent to an industrial steam engine in terms of power output / steam consumption. 18 of them can run at 100% per 36HP boiler.

Since you can easily get MJ from a redstone energy cell or tesseract by adding a single conduit length, there is no reason (that I can think of) to use MJ producing engines anymore.

 

[Niels Henriksen]

Look at the Steam Turbine from MFR. I got a report from a fellow player that they work with Steam Boiler.