Gregtech 1.7.10 Issues with EBF

    Hey guys, i've been running into some issues with my EBF on my single player world. After completely setting up my EBF and assuring that there are no errors on the console I tried to smelt steel. When I placed my wrought iron into the input bus and hit the console with a soft hammer, i got the confirmation of "enabled" and the console flashes green and immediately turns off. Each time this happens it consumes one of the materials in the input bus. I thought this might be an issue with the power supply to the machine so I re-created it in a creative world with MV power and tried again. The same thing happened, the console would flash green and consume the material and output nothing. I've attached a couple screen shots of the creative setup.


    http://puu.sh/ofYXr/c7ae090120.png


    http://puu.sh/ofYYq/914af9c6f5.png


    http://puu.sh/ofYYM/e7a9dec95c.png



    Hopefully this is just me being dumb.


    Thanks

    Could you provide a picture of the top of your EBF? I think using a heat proof machine casing in place of the muffler hatch, or having the muffler hatch pointed the wrong way, could produce the effect you describe, without showing up as an error on the console.

    You need also a fluid input hatch in the bottom row with oxygen to create steel from wroug iron. Also you may not provide enough amperage to keep the EBF running. in LV yopu need 3 amps to get to the 96 EU/t needed, but depending on your exact setup you may need more than 3 Amps to be produced/stored for the EBF to run.

    Quote from Kupferdrache

    You need also a fluid input hatch in the bottom row with oxygen to create steel from wroug iron. Also you may not provide enough amperage to keep the EBF running. in LV yopu need 3 amps to get to the 96 EU/t needed, but depending on your exact setup you may need more than 3 Amps to be produced/stored for the EBF to run.


    If the OP didn't have a fluid hatch with oxygen, it wouldn't have started processing the wrought iron. Also, wrought iron to steel takes 120 EU/t, not 96.


    However, I looked more carefully at the second screen shot the OP attached, and the output dot of the battery buffer is visible with nothing connected to it. The cables are connected to the input sides of the battery buffer, so none of the power is getting to the EBF. Unlike single-block machines that iirc won't even start processing with an empty internal energy buffer, GT multiblocks will attempt to start and immediately destroy the processed material (I found this out the hard way once with an implosion compressor).