Stirling Engine not heating up?

[eculc]

I'm getting started in a new world and thought I'd use stirling engines as an early power source. However, only one of my stirling engines is heating up and pumping fast enough to produce the power I'd like.

All three of my Engines are pointed directly at a machine. For a short time, I had pointed the one engine that would heat up at another engine, and that one heated up as well, but once I turned it away the other engine cooled off again.

Anyone know why some of the engines won't heat up, while one will?

 

[whythisname]

I'm guessing you're producing too much power which causes 1 to heat up, or you have other engines feeding into that warm engine. Normally the Stirling engines shouldn't heat up, as far as I know they're designed to always stay cool. They'll also never explode if you use up all the energy they produce (if you don't they will explode, just like Redstone engines and many others).

 

[slay_mithos]

For the sake of information, let me tell you that the two engines from BC (sterling and combustion) don't give more power when going faster.

The only engine I know that give more power as it heats up is the redstone engine. To a lesser extend, the biogas engine too, as it requires to be heat up to even work.

Apart from that, all engines produce a fixed amount per game tick, and release that energy once per cycle (when the "head" hits the pipe or machine).

 

[MilConDoin]

The TE engines also need to heat up to get to full MJ/t.
The Steam engine starts with 0.x (forgot the exact amount) and takes a short while to reach 2 MJ/t production.

 

[slay_mithos]

Well, if you go that way, Railcraft also need to heat up. And the boiler is even way worse.

The "heating up" for the stirling engine is the green/yellow/red stages, and those have absolutely no effect on the MJ/t that the engine will provide. It just makes it output more frequently, in lesser amount per output.

If you don't believe me, you are free to check on the actual code for them on github.