I really dislike the typical 'solar flower' arrangement most ic2-ers use for solar panels. It just doesn't look right. Is it to save on cable or something?
It's to reduce cable loss yet still have as many solars attached as possible. But the old solar flowers are ancient ever since glass fibre cables were added, and with experimental having no cable loss, there is literally no reason to use them anymore unless you're running low on cables and/or space.
No, every 40 blocks it lost 1 EU. It's why you could just put 39 cables then a transformer/EU storage block and reset it without losing anything, EU loss was only in whole numbers. But in experimental no cable has loss right now until you turn it on in the config, which then yes it's how you describe.
