I'm finally getting my head above water with this mod, having worked out most of the basics, but in building a refinery I've noticed there's no remotely powered pump options, as in, I'd like a pump that works being powered by redstone conduit that is being fed MJ somewhere else. I realize devices all hook up to the conduit, but wooden pipes don't, and I'd like to be able to put a little more power behind them than a redstone pump. For now I've double and triple redstone pumped a few, but I think it'd be useful if there was a hydraulic or pneumatic pump option, something like a redstone energy energy cell in that you could configure inputs and outputs and have it work on wooden pipes. Hell, just make R.E.C's work on wooden pipes and my prayers will be answered. Is this possible or is there already an item that does this I just haven't found?
Redstone Conduit Powered Pumps?
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You can power wooden pipes with any engine, not just redstone engine. The only remote powered engine would be the electrical engine. It needs EU, though, so you'd have to do some IC2 power stuff or just a Geothermal Generator fed with lava from Magma Crucible+Igneous Extruder combo. But if you're doing lava you may as well use a magmatic engine which is pretty much overkill for wooden pipes.
Obviously there is no engine that would require MJ to produce MJ, what would be the point in that? Seems restricting that you have to use an engine but that's how it works.
Obviously there is no engine that would require MJ to produce MJ, what would be the point in that? Seems restricting that you have to use an engine but that's how it works.
For remotely powered pumps, I use 4x Redstone Engines, which pretty much has the pump running full-blast.
However, there's a simple solution for you... the Redstone Energy Cell will automatically power something it is adjacent to, no pipes necessary. I'd throttle the output to 1 MJ/t, though.
If that doesn't work for you, place a couple of LV Solar Arrays on a BatBox hooked up to an Electrical Engine.
However, there's a simple solution for you... the Redstone Energy Cell will automatically power something it is adjacent to, no pipes necessary. I'd throttle the output to 1 MJ/t, though.
If that doesn't work for you, place a couple of LV Solar Arrays on a BatBox hooked up to an Electrical Engine.
the RP engine also needs Blueticity to run. Which could run off a themopile or solar panel.
Oh yeah you're right but that is way more expensive. I remember it requires diamonds.
No not really. You just need a lot of storage. I use one sometimes on my base and all my BT power comes from my therompile and 18 bats. I don't run it non stop. But since it scales you can actully use a timer, counter, and toggle as a sort of pulse motor to get a finer control over its intake and output letting you scale its MJ use to your needs.
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Actual I looked at my build I only use a timer for it to work as a pulse motor and you can run it off 1 solar cell for low power items or off a batt. The key is just getting your timer to the power you want. A toggle is only needed if your trying to keep the one and off cycles longer instead of a pulse.
It is basically how electric motors are often used in the real world you pulse them power instead of altering in power you give them you give them max but alter how often they are on.
The only down side here is sometimes the engine takes a bit to charge up before use but once it is running it will be happy to run off the pulse as long as it keeps getting power regulary
I would love to see how this works, would you mind posting a few pictures or maybe listing some of the specs?
I can see what you're doing here... instead of having the engine always on, you pulse energy to the machine in discreet packets. Thus if you send one packet every second, you'd be using 1/20th of the power, and delivering 1/20th of the power output.
My question here is how do you deal with all the lag that a rapid timer creates?
Sure I just made a thread because I knew you would ask.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/how-to-use-the-bt-engine-as-a-pluse-engine.7894/
You don't set it to really fast if you want it for higher MJ use a toggle so you can have your on cycle more then just a pulse.