Strange RF issue

[Cougar281]

I've been building on a new DW20 1.7.10 world and I've run across some strange behavor that I can't figure out...

I've got two Steam Dynamos connected up to two hardened energy cells that are stacked on top of each other via EnderIO Energy Conduits. I've tried both one Dynamo hooked to each cell and them all connected together with a conduit that forms an 'H'. Connected together, the Dynamos balance out to the total of the two - about 85-90RF/t. The bottom one feeds my (small) ME system and various ME powered devices - Furnace, sag mill, smelter, etc, which when only the ME system is active, is pulling about 19RF/t. Its config is right side in (blue), left side out (orange) and all others nothing (Gold). The top one feeds my Redstone furnace that makes wood into charcoal to feed the dynamos, my harvester & planter and a leadstone energy cell that's sitting on top of it. It's output config is right in, back & top out and all others nothing. The Leadstone Energy cell I have set to output limit to 50RF/t. It's feeding my quarry via tesseracts (One on each end).

Here's what I can't figure out: If I set the middle tesseract to max output, it starts losing power like crazy. The dynamos get pegged at 160RF/t combined output, and it continues to lose power. I used a conduit probe on the feed to my planter, harvester and furnace, and that shows 0RF/t i the last 5 seconds while this was going on. I used it on the feed to the tesseract and that showed 99RF/t. If I throttle the middle energy cell back to 80RF/t, everything fills up and the Dynamos level out around the 85-90RF/t I mentioned.

So the questions are: Since I have the output on the Leadstone energy cell limited to 50RF/t, how is the only output conduit showing 99RF/t passing through it, and where the heck is all that RF going?

Anyone have any clues?

 

[Jakalth]

Something funny happens between TE energy cells and Ender IO power conduits. The limit you place on output from the energy cells does not always limit how much RF the Ender IO conduits can draw from that cell. For example, I used a hardened energy cell as a buffer between a tesseract and a quarry on the quarry side of the connection. I used a single piece of Ender IO conduit to actually connect the energy cell to the quarry. Limiting the input to 200RF/tick and the output too 150RF/tick did not allow the energy cell to fill. But setting the input to 190RF and leaving the output at 150RF and the cell starts filling, slowly, and the quarry slows down a little. So for some reason there is a connection issue between the energy cells and the Ender IO conduits. But, if I just connected the energy cell strait to the quarry, the quarry wouldn't accept the power in the same way and ran much slower.

What does seem to work though is setting both the input and output to the same value, when you want to limit power flow. So, if you want only 50RF output, when using an energy cell and ender IO conduits, then set both the input and output to be the same, 50RF. You loose some of your energy buffer, but you gain control of the energy flow again.