reading energy level from redstone energy cell

[rhn]

If you have Nuclear Control why not just use the Range Trigger? Its specifically designed to turn stuff on and off based on energy levels. Energy levels that you yourself can set in the Range Trigger UI. The sensor cards work fine with both EU storage and Energy cells. And its wireless over large distances with range upgrades.

 

[Azurl]

Very late on replying to your question. Yes, you can use ComputerCraft to read a redstone energy cell. I see people where they said to use gates and so forth but this is very useful and can do a lot more than any gate. Here is a very simple example how to read the cell via ComputerCraft.

cell = peripheral.wrap("bottom")
cellStored = cell.getEnergyStored()
cellFull = cell.getMaxEnergyStored()
cellPercent = math.floor(100*cellStored/cellFull)

-- Using tonumber to take off the unwanted decimal
print(tonumber(cellStored))
print(cellFull)
-- Better format
print(tonumber(cellStored).."/"..cellFull.." "..cellPercent.."%")

On being more powerful than any gate, is you can use if then statements to do certain things, like change the output or input of the cell. You could have exact number matched before it does something e.g. like 20% or a specific number 134777. Hope this helped.

Better late than never, that seems like a better solution than what I had previously used. thank you [DOUBLEPOST=1385595047][/DOUBLEPOST]

If you have Nuclear Control why not just use the Range Trigger? Its specifically designed to turn stuff on and off based on energy levels. Energy levels that you yourself can set in the Range Trigger UI. The sensor cards work fine with both EU storage and Energy cells. And its wireless over large distances with range upgrades.

but this was for redstone energy cells, which store MJ, not EU. Nuclear control is for industrialcraft power no?

 

[rhn]

but this was for redstone energy cells, which store MJ, not EU. Nuclear control is for industrialcraft power no?

I suspect it might have been originally, but it also works with Energy cells(and conduits actually). You can/could also use the liquid sensors on Railcraft/Xycraft tanks.
I personally use the Range Trigger everywhere to control my energy production. There is a few pics of some of the stuff here: http://imgur.com/a/dSMKv

Two Range triggers controlling Biogas engines:

 

[PierceSG]

Am I correct to say that the Nuclear Control addon doesn't necessarily needs IC2 around to work? Standalone to say?

What about the Advanced Information Panel?

 

[rhn]

Am I correct to say that the Nuclear Control addon doesn't necessarily needs IC2 around to work? Standalone to say?

What about the Advanced Information Panel?

Ehm from what I can see it is dependant on IC2:
http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Control
Also all the recipes for items contain IC2 stuff, so doubt it.
Really hope it gets updated to 1.6 and the new IC2, cause its one of my favourite mods(well one of the mods I use the most).

 

[Darkone84]

Speaking of Nuclear Control does the Energy Sensor Kit work on the Redstone Energy Cell?

 

[rhn]

Speaking of Nuclear Control does the Energy Sensor Kit work on the Redstone Energy Cell?

Probably should have specified more clearly. Yes the Energy sensor kit is actually what you use in the Range trigger too. And it works on both Energy cells and Conduits(Conduits actually have a storage, but why you would want to measure it I don't know. Use it as a trigger for network being powered maybe?).

 

[shortybsd]

Better late than never, that seems like a better solution than what I had previously used. thank you [DOUBLEPOST=1385595047][/DOUBLEPOST]

I use this same thing for everything, nuclear reactors, big reactors, mfsu's, redstone energy cells... It is the only flawless thing I could use where the power wouldn't flip on and off fast due to the limits of gates. 2 if statements solve everything.

if(mfsuEnergy>=9000000)
--turn off reactor
elseif(mfsuEnergy<=1000000)
--power on the reactor
end

very basic but very effective as I have a big window from where it turns on and off.