Well not *entirely*. The energy in the buffer doesn't need to go away, but any partial fuel energy/steam will in fact dissipate. As it stands, there's little incentive to actively turn them off, since the penalty is so steep.
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Well not *entirely*. The energy in the buffer doesn't need to go away, but any partial fuel energy/steam will in fact dissipate. As it stands, there's little incentive to actively turn them off, since the penalty is so steep.
That should only be an issue if there's nowhere for that energy to go, right? If you turn off your dynamos before they start to backlog energy there isn't really any penalty for shutting them down (at least, that seems to be my experience, but I have a very small setup)
Honestly, without the ability to make a tree farm without golem research from Thaumcraft (don't care for RotaryCraft), I found it easier to abandon the Dynamos for Engineer's Toolbox Hydroelectric Generators. They're more expensive, but I don't have to worry about fuel. Of course, I still have the Dynamos set up for emergency power when I need more juice, such as for processing.
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Now I just have to figure how to do it without an 8-block long line of redstone in Horizons.You'd think projectRed or enderIO would have some kind of block to work with redstone signal strengths, but I haven't figured out what they are.
Don't worry... it can be done... I just took the long route for visual purposes and cause its more fun if I don't tell everything
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Vanilla redstone mechanics, or mods? I stand a chance of figuring out the latter!Don't worry... it can be done... I just took the long route for visual purposes and cause its more fun if I don't tell everything
I use computercraft to generate a signal strength of any value so I can cut out on the redstone but I understand that is not in horizons.
There is probably a better way but here I go
When I was tinkering around with Factorization (Leyden jars and battery boxes also have comparator support) I was able to do it with just 2 comparators and one redstone and lever. It reliably stopped the turbine when the jar was at ~98%. If energy cells scale the same way then that is good
When I was tinkering around with Factorization (Leyden jars and battery boxes also have comparator support) I was able to do it with just 2 comparators and one redstone and lever. It reliably stopped the turbine when the jar was at ~98%. If energy cells scale the same way then that is good
I was just thinking (after doing some reading on minecraftwiki.net), that I might be able to do it with a furnace and two comparators.
Vanilla redstone mechanics, or mods? I stand a chance of figuring out the latter!
Mods if you want it shorter...
I wonder if it would be possible to automate this somehow using deployers, such that when your energy cell reaches a certain percentage a new one is crafted, sent to the deployer, and placed down so it can accept the incoming RF. Then, when that one reaches a certain percentage...
I decided to give this a try, no AE style and got it to work!
The front with machines and there inputs. Inputs take exactly the required materials from the barrels.
The redstone, done with project red. Utilizing pulseformers and state cells.
Ive been playing around with this comparator thing for abit the past few days and I realy miss a project red gate that can generate signal strength and a latch that can switch depending on signal strength. Made a gate request so heres hoping it gets accepted *crosses fingers*
Why make it simple and code it out when you can make it awesome and use logic gates to perform the task?
Besides, it's easier to understand - it's a phsycal flowchart, literally.
OK, it's officially been too long since I've played modded Minecraft: it literally took me 30 seconds to realize you meant "a ComputerCraft computer" and not "coding the add-on yourself on your computer".
The comparator thing is good to know, thanks for the tip jaded. I fool around with redstone on a vanilla server but I've never really touched comparators...
This can actually be shrunk down further if you have a PRC. You can have the signal strength input as an integer, compare it to a constant, then have an IF/THEN to output signal if signal strength is greater than constant. All in one block.I sneak edited it in
Programmable rednet controller from minefactory reloaded.
