What causes cables transmitting MJ randomly explode?

[Kuupie]

Hello forum dwellers

I have a problem where MJ transmitting conductive pipes act weirdly. First, the most prominent problem is them exploding randomly. I have six electric engines connected to a querry through golden conductive pipes and they just randomly explode. Or some of them do. Second problem is that the wiring I have in my base just randomly stops working. It sometimes gets blocked (theres a huge chunk of energy in the pipe) or just stops transmitting altogether and I have to destroy the pipe and install it again.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[WatcherInTheShadows]

Energy backs up and causes that.

 

[tunnen]

If you are using conductive piping and you are supplying power (engines) but have no load on the system (Machines running), the power will build up in the pipe until it explodes. This also happens if you create a loop in the conductive pipe. This can also be a problem if your engines are in one chunk and your load is in another. If the chunk with your load is unloaded but the engine chunk stays loaded, you'll have the same problem. I suggest moving to energy conduits from the Thermal Expansion mod, if you are able to.

 

[Saice]

Yeah you cant just leave those guys running. The pipe backs up (you can see a blue thing getting bigger and bigger then turn red) then explodes.

This can happen when all mahcines on the pipe are full.
You are creating more MJ then your using.
You have a loop in your pipes that is cuasing a build up.

 

[Minethulhu]

Use redstone energy conduits (from thermal expansion) and problem solved. No more energy buildup/backkup.

 

[Kuupie]

Thanks for the energy conduit tip. What puzzles me is that I am powering a quarry and according to wiki it can eat up to 100 MJs of power, way above of what six electric engines produce. Oh well, I'll give those energy conduits a try.

 

[Saice]

Use redstone energy conduits (from thermal expansion) and problem solved. No more energy buildup/backkup.

I agree there but depending on what you have these might not be something they can readly build.

 

[Kuupie]

Oh and to IcountFrom0: no upgrades on engines.

 

[tunnen]

Did you walk away from the quarry? The quarry itself acts as a chunk loader, but it's possible it could be right at the edge and your engines are in the chunk but some piping is not. When you walk away, the chunk with the piping unloads, but the engines continue to run but have no path to send the power.

 

[Kuupie]

No, actually the last time it happened I was idling next to the quarry while browsing the internet.

 

[thaile4ever]

The quarry was change to use at max 9 32mj/t. It work similar to the TE machine where it has an internal storage and the more charged it is the more it uses.

Well it use to be 9, not sure what your problem is then.