Reactor not making EU?

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Hello My nuclear reactor randomly stopped outputting EU.It is on and has cells in it the cells take damage when its running but output 0 EU.
 
First off, what (minecraft) version are you using.
After that. How much was it outputting? What cables were you using? Transformer(s)?
And how did you notice that it wasn't outputting power?
 
Knew i forgot something using mindcrack 8.3.2 [1.4.7] using Glass Fibre cableing and a Hv-transformer and MV-transformer so my MFE doesn't go boom and yesterday it was outputting 360 EU/t
 
Huh. And here I was hoping you did something silly like use tin or copper cables. Then I could go "AHA!" and point at your burned out cables. Now I don't know and I look like a jerk.
You need someone learned in the ways of 1.4.7 and gregtech (I forgot most of the former, don't play gregtech, sorry).
 
Hah i wish it was that simple i read somewhere it would make steam but it didn't so i don't know?
That's a config option. If you changed it to output steam, then I think it's trying to do that. Pretty sure it's an either/or option.
 
If your MFE is full it will stop outputting

Check for the redstone signal(can't remember if a signal enables or disables a reactor in 1.4)

Steam reactor is a config setting, if that's been changed then it won't directly output EU
 
IC2 reactors stay active as long as they're receiving a redstone signal, regardless if anything is accepting the power or not.
They don't behave at all like the rest of the generators.
 
Using red alloywire instead of redstone but it works the same right? and there is also no redstone near the MFE
 
IC2 reactors stay active as long as they're receiving a redstone signal, regardless if anything is accepting the power or not.
They don't behave at all like the rest of the generators.

Not with the way he's measuring in 1.4 which is using an EU reader on the wire because the reactor didn't tell you... And a redstone signal used to DEACTIVATE the reactor but I can't remember when this changed...

Red alloy wire sometimes works, make sure a piece is placed on the reactor not just next to it
 
Red alloy wire works fine. If it's tic'ing and the rods are taking damage, then the reactor's running. Maybe give some screenshots of teh reactorz?
 
Not with the way he's measuring in 1.4 which is using an EU reader on the wire because the reactor didn't tell you... And a redstone signal used to DEACTIVATE the reactor but I can't remember when this changed...

Red alloy wire sometimes works, make sure a piece is placed on the reactor not just next to it

Well, it was changed (or you miss-remember) on or before 1.4.7. It's been a while, but I first got into FTB packs with dw20 on 1.4.7 *puts on rose tinted glasses * oh that was such a fun couple of months *regretfully takes them back off*. And a redstone signal is how you activated the reactor. You use signals from things like the heat sensor paired with a not gate to turn it off.
 
Eu ready says 0 EU but the information panel says 360Eu/t
Right. The info panel is pulling its information from the reactor, wich is, in fact, running. The EU reader will only tell you how much power is being transferred (wich will be 0 if nothing's receiving it). In the case of the reactor "output" doesn't mean power's going anywhere, it just means the reactor's making it (in this case it's then going *poof*)
 
reactor is running everything is hooked up and i go to look at the MFe and its not charging there all at 0 :/
 
Check inputs and outputs, transformers input on dot at higher voltage and no dot lower voltage, MFE dot is input and other faces output
 
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well i ran a wire from the reactor to a differnt MFE and it started charging >_> maybe it doesnt output from the botton
 
Check inputs and outputs, transformers input on dot at higher voltage and no dot lower voltage, MFE dot is input and other faces output
Um, that doesn't sound right. Transformers and Storage units (Batbox, MFE, etc.) all only output on one face, but input on all the rest. Storage, the dot is output. Transformers one-dot sides are input, 3-dot side is output.