Windmill not powering tin cable directly below

[Paul Ostregich]

Hello everyone

I was having trouble setting up my wind mill and was wondering if anyone could offer some assistance.

My setup is like the image below. If I insert a battery in the windmill, it charges it just fine. But i'd like to transmit power to my bat box below. My batbox isn't getting charged, which is approx. 40 blocks away. I checked the wires below the wind mill with the EU-Reader. And it seems like theres 0 EU in the cables.

Any info to help me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks =]

 

[Zerren]

40 blocks away you said? That might be too far for tin cable transmission. Try putting the batbox closer up the cable.

 

[Democretes]

Is your batbox facing the right way? And your windmill might not just be generating power at the moment.

 

[DaWhiskers]

Tin cable loses 1 eu over 40 cable lengths, move the batbox to less than 40 cable lengths and see if the problem re-occurs.

 

[CrafterOfMines57]

It is possible for there to be no wind, move the windmill one down, and if it doesn't work, wait a bit. It is also possible for them to glitch (not certain if that was fixed yet), if you place another windmill, and that produces power, your wind mill may be glitched.

 

[Jay Cee]

It is possible for there to be no wind, move the windmill one down, and if it doesn't work, wait a bit. It is also possible for them to glitch (not certain if that was fixed yet), if you place another windmill, and that produces power, your wind mill may be glitched.

Naw he said he managed to charge a battery.

My guess is try moving it to 20 blocks and see if it charges otherwise check the orientation

 

[Paul Ostregich]

Thanks for the feed back guys.

It seems that the windmill was producing 0,6 EU/t. And that was getting lost on the way (By lost, i mean that if the cable isn't powering something successfuly, it doesn't carry any current. Hence the 0 readings from the EU-Reader).

After moving the bat box closer to the windmill (8 blocks away), i was able to start charging it. I measured the windmill, cables and batbox itself with the EU-reader and got a reading of ~0.6 EU/t . I then moved the batbox to 20 blocks away, then to 30 blocks away and finally to 40 blocks away from the windmill. I read the current(EU/t) values on each move and it seems that as long as you dont make the cable longer than 38 blocks, it doesn't lose any current. So after putting the batbox to 38 blocks distance from the wind mill, i got a current of ~0.6 EU/t again. Putting it 39 blocks away resulted in no current in the batbox or anywhere in the cable. So like i said, if it's not powering something, then there's no current.

Just wanted to share some info incase another newbie like me has a similar problem.

I do want to ask a final question: Is the current values i'm getting normal? I've seen 0.8 EU/t output sometimes, but not higher (for now at least). It seems quite low

Thanks.

 

[Democretes]

I do want to ask a final question: Is the current values i'm getting normal? I've seen 0.8 EU/t output sometimes, but not higher (for now at least). It seems quite low

Those values are pretty normal. If your only at Y:101 then you're not going to generate much energy. The higher you go the more energy you generate. If you want to make some energy off of wind mills check Spwx's Windmill Engineering thread.

 

[Paul Ostregich]

Those values are pretty normal. If your only at Y:101 then you're not going to generate much energy. The higher you go the more energy you generate. If you want to make some energy off of wind mills check Spwx's Windmill Engineering thread.

Thanks for the link it was a nice read

I also read up on cables, and transformers. Although it seems complicated at first; after understanding how the mechanics of electricity works, i now have a much better grasp of the concept. I would recommend anyone having trouble with 'electric stuff' to check out the industrial craft wiki.

Now to turn theory into practice! (hopefully)