The LP and HP turbines behave identically. While they have a steady steam supply, they accelerate until they reach their maximum speed. Torque is a function of steam supply and tends to vary within 1kNm.
All I can tell you is that the HP turbine had a static output via the dynamometer. Whether that's because its truly static, or a loss of precision on the numbers, or because I did it back on 24b, no idea.
Technically not "direct" but definitely a plausible idea
That was because pre-v25 HP turbines absorbed far more steam than they were capable of generating. The torque calculations generated something like 100MNm of torque, but it got capped at 65kNm. Now, they only take in as much as they need, so it can often behave like the LP turbine. That said, supply enough steam, like from a fusion reactor, and you will lock it.
I considered that, but the magnetostatic engines are capped at 256 MW. If the reactor generates 48 GW, which it should be capable of, then you'd need 192 magnetostatic engines, an insane shaft junction setup and a number of induction generators. Not feasible from several angles. Anyway, I will try to lock the output ;=) One HP turbine less won't hurt.
Woops I forgot about that. Another plan down the toilet.
No, but I'm considering it. The thing is annoying to power though. I hate to use more than one gearbox.
Really? I seemed to recall it drew very little power without particularly high speed or torque; don't see why two gearboxes (or any at all) should have been necessary.
I'm judging from the description. It needs 4KW at 4krad/s. Not much power at all, but it's pure speed. Induction Motors are all relatively high in torque output, and even with a steam engine, I'd need a CVT if I don't want to waste power. Or I could use four DC engines and a 16x gearbox. Or a T1 magnetostatic with a CVT (I'll probably end up doing that since I don't want another connection on my main battery). It is not difficult, but it's an excessive amount of resources spent just to power a pipe pump.
Technically, updating is easy. I didn't have any problems except ID conflicts with Ars Magica, which isn't normally in Monster. However, you need to break all your RotaryCraft engines before you update and replace them after the update, and you need to add lubricant logistics to all your magnetostatic engines. That didn't take me very long since I had the lubricant infrastructure in place, but it's still somewhat annoying.Not to break the flow of conversation but how easy is it to update Monster to the latest versions? ElC is currently killing my server seemingly no matter what I do, not even because of variable input. I set up a system, no generator connected (so no power flow), relay>resistor>motor lines to drive my preheaters, toroid VDGs, and solenoid (so 9 relay/resistor combos, 6 of them with motors at the time), turned on the relays as a test, instant disconnect and TPS spike. Restarted the server, the moment it finished loading was already at 600+ms and climbing, couldn't even get in to try to diagnose the exact component causing the problem. I'm starting to wonder if it's a problem with the relays in general or relay+red alloy wire interaction, since by itself, unpowered with no redstone signal, no problems. I can only hope updating will fix this, I've had to restore that age from backup just to make the server accessible again.
Thank you for the information. I noticed you were using the batteries, I don't have any in my setup...I wonder if somehow the electricraft pathing code is freaking out because there's no source and multiple destinations. Frustrating that I can't debug it very well. I can try rebuilding and adding intermediate batteries to see if it changes anything, do the batteries accept redstone to toggle output on/off, do you know, or must I use relays? (At work now but want to start planning how in the world I'm going to lay things out, heh.)
