Cable limits

Flex_Zoroark · October 30, 2020 at 9:07 PM

So I want to power my underground miner by a long cable leading to solar flowers, but no matter how many I put them, no power goes to the miner.

Is there cable limit where the power just stops completely? What do I have to do to have long working cables?

I would be very glad if there was a cheap solution, but I will not be mining on the surface anyways, nor do I want to wrench and carry solar panels from place to place.

Thank you in advance

gone · October 31, 2020 at 1:55 PM Official Post

Several questions to help us get further:

1. Which cables are you using?

2. How long are your cables?

3. Are you using a buffer/transformer block inbetween the solar flowers and your underground base?

Shirolol · November 2, 2020 at 6:58 AM

Every EU packet loses some power per unit of distance traveled through a cable.

In an MFSU that sends energy through a glass fiber cable this is not a problem, but if you have a huge number of solar panels connected via HV cables, you will not get any EU due to this.