Thermionic Fabricator

[Taien]

Hey guys....I'm attempting to use a Thermionic Fabricator and I can't get it to work. I've followed the instructions on the wiki for Forestry, but it seems that when I hook a redstone engine up to the Fabricator the engine won't turn on for some reason. Does it just not work with redstone engines?

 

[Abdiel]

No, you need to use a "real" engine. Since some time ago, redstone engines will only work with pipes, no machines.

 

[Rikki21]

Forestry wiki clearly states the Thermionic Fabricator requires 2MJ/t to run.

Redstone engines should be used only for pipes and the pump, nothing else.

 

[Dylan Meurs]

actually the redstone engines no long output to wooden conductive pipes and will only work with compatible machinces like a pump, the required power just has to be low enough for the engine to run it

 

[ItharianEngineering]

It needs at least 2 MJ/t to heat up glass hot enough to melt it so a redstone engine won't work

 

[Rikki21]

I think we were both talking about wooden transport pipes, not conductive.

 

[Taien]

So I hooked up a combustion engine instead and it still seems to not be heating up (although the engine is at least running now). Argh.

 

[Rikki21]

Pictures of your setup would be helpful.

 

[Taien]

I got it working finally, turns out the combustion engine only produces 1MJ, so I needed two. I wish redstone engines still worked.

 

[Rikki21]

Combustion engine or Stirling Engine? Combustion requires fuel/oil and water to prevent overheating. Stirling Engine only requires coal/charcoal. Stirling only produces 1MJ, combustion should provide much more.

 

[ItharianEngineering]

a combustion engine using lava as fuel only produces 1 MJ/t

 

[Rikki21]

a combustion engine using lava as fuel only produces 1 MJ/t

Really? That doesn't seem right, but okay. Wiki confirms that. Compared to the magmatic engine, that seems really low.

 

[ItharianEngineering]

It is a lower MJ/t but it can run much longer on 1 bucket of lava than the magmatic engine does.

 

[akamanu]

On the beta pack i was running a few of the thermal expasion machines and the rolling machine with redstone engines (4 each machine), ofc it was very slow, but well it was free.

/manu

 

[Exedra]

I love watching people wonder why they can't power their machines with redstone engines. I always get a good laugh out of it.