[AddOn v1.23] Energy Coupler v0.21.1 - Convert EUs <-> BuildCraft Energy

Quote from McFistyBuns

As far as a bukkit port, please, be my guest. I'll post the source. It's a bit messy right now because I just wanted to get some features in.

I think there are a couple of things in play with your observations in that post. First, the quarry can store energy itself, which is probably why you are seeing it operate after the energy stops. If you look at my posts a little higher up, you'll see that the quarry can store 7000 BC Energy and it uses (2 + energyStored / 1000). So, as you can see, a fully charged quarry will run for a bit after the energy going to it has stopped.

The other problem your seeing I think is related to the way BuildCraft's energy system is set up. Overage is discarded and machines always request the maximum even if they are already full. Most machines I've looked at request a maximum of 25 BCE no matter what. So I think a good rule of thumb is never convert more than 32EUs to a machine. I don't think there's ever going to be 0% loss unless BuildCraft changes the way machines request energy.

Does that make sense?

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That last part made more sense to my issues I think. The question is does it sound right a quarry can run on 3EUs? It seems unlegit to me haha.

For how slow it moves? Yeah, sounds legit to /me/.

As far as the energy mechanics; ouch, how very stoneage. I agree that is an inherent flaw in buildcraft its self. It's like everything is a leaky faucet that you just can't dial down to the sip of water you want.

Im very happy that you posted your source. it good to have when i want to nail down Exactly what a block does

Since there's a GUI for the block now, can you please also add a way of dialing in a specific rate of energy delivery? Comparable levels of buildcraft engines would be interesting. To display along side the setting.

I've found that chests work just perfectly with a single LV converter, but I'm not sure if my quarries are running at full speed or not.

Hmm, anyone texture creator mind making textures for this in the Faithful style?

If you want faithful sprites of this one I guess u have to copy block_0 file from faithful/IC2 folder to energy coupler/sprites folder. It should work.

Great mod!

How do I know how much a buildcraft machine needs in EU to operate?

I am not sure if this is happening to anyone else, but with the knew version when i place a stone/gold regulator pipe my game crashes. But it allows me to place wooden ones perfectly fine.

Quote from McFistyBuns

New in Version 0.21, Energy Regulator Pipes!

Never waste another EU again! Regulator Pipes will now automatically calculate and determine the optimal amount of energy to send to your buildcraft machines!

How to use:
1) Attach a Wooden Regulator Pipe to the Energy Coupler BuildCraft output side
2) Attach either a Gold or Stone Regulator Pipe to the energy's end destination, for example a Quarry or even another Energy Coupler!
3) Connect the two endpoints with Energy Pipes
4) Watch the energy flow at a regulated rate after the machine has filled itself up!
5) There is no step 4! The pipes handle everything for you!

Some Regulator Pipe limitations:
- Because of the way Energy Pipes pass energy requests, you may experience energy "waves" in longer pipes. For optimal use, it is recommended that you keep your pipe runs short.
- Wooden Regulator Pipes are only intended for use with Energy Couplers. You may experience unintended consequences when using them with BuildCraft Engines.

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Neat.. I don't suppose you know if it works with teleport pipes?
A couple of my machines are all a bit on the distant side so running power to them normally would get interesting. How short is "short"?
Maybe it's just me but i'm not clear on the regulators, is this a 1:1 sort of thing? I may have to expand my BC solar farm as right now i've got a set of combustion engines powering anything rather taxing (32 solar panel isn't enough for 3 refinery and a quarry)

edit: mmkay.. i'm confused. upgrade to 0.21 and the game fails to load? Don't get an error and I don't see anything in Modloader.txt
ah hah.. got an error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of remaining buffer elements is 64, must be at least 1024
	at org.lwjgl.BufferChecks.throwBufferSizeException(BufferChecks.java:143)
	at org.lwjgl.BufferChecks.checkBufferSize(BufferChecks.java:158)
	at org.lwjgl.BufferChecks.checkBuffer(BufferChecks.java:163)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glTexSubImage2D(GL11.java:2908)
	at ur.a(RenderEngine.java:436)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.k(SourceFile:1173)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:666)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT b8c669ce ----------

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I am not sure if this is happening to anyone else, but with the knew version when i place a stone/gold regulator pipe my game crashes. But it allows me to place wooden ones perfectly fine.

EXACT same thing happened to mine. Bummer.

Quote from Victor_Bob

Hi

I'm having a bit of an issue trying to install this. I've got buildcraft 2.2.5 and IC2 and they seem to work fine with no issues but when i try to add this (simply by dropping the zip file into the mods folder). Minecraft loads up fine afterwards but as soon as i enter the world it goes straight to saving chunks and crashes, afraid i can't offer an error log as it doesn't give me one. Any idea whats going wrong?

Trying to install this on my Single player world and downloading the client 0.20 version. Other mods i have installed are Buildcraft 2.2.5 and IC2, equivalent exchange, too many items, single player commands

I get an issue when using terminal or console to start up but the issue is a sizing error I think

I'm not 100% sure if this addon is the problem, but it's the last one I've installed (and had no problems for the 3 or so days before installing it). Minecraft crashes to a "Saving Chunks" screen, and then black after that.

Here's an error log:

17 achievements
161 recipes
ModLoader Beta 1.8.1 Initializing...
Mod Loaded: mod_BuildCraftCore 2.2.4
Mod Loaded: mod_BuildCraftEnergy 2.2.4
Mod Loaded: mod_BuildCraftFactory 2.2.4
Mod Loaded: mod_BuildCraftTransport 2.2.4
Mod Loaded: mod_CraftGuide 1.2.2
Using 32 audio sources.
MinecraftForge V1.1.2 Initialized
ModLoaderMP Beta 1.7.3 unofficial Initialized
Mod Loaded: mod_IC2 v1.23
Mod Loaded: mod_IC2_AdvMachine v2.1 modded by CPW
Mod Loaded: mod_EnergyCoupler 0.20
Mod Loaded: mod_RecipeBook Beta 1.8
Mod Loaded: mod_zAdditionalPipes Rev29
Mod Loaded: mod_TooManyItems 1.8.1 2011-09-27
Done.
WARNING: Found unknown Windows version: Windows 7
Attempting to use default windows plug-in.
Loading: net.java.games.input.DirectAndRawInputEnvironmentPlugin




Starting up SoundSystem...
Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
    (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
OpenAL initialized.




Commands: 126
Attempting to load: spc_paint
Attempting to load: spc_path
Attempting to load: spc_WorldEdit
New max size: 484
New max size: 784
[AdditionalPipes] HD Texture Patch not found...
[AdditionalPipes] OptiFine not found...
[AdditionalPipes] Loaded 5 Forced Chunks
Warning: Texture /EnergyCoupler/sprites/block_0.png not preloaded, will cause render glitches!




java.lang.RuntimeException: EnergyNet: EnergyBlockLink corrupted (ic2.common.TileEntityElectricMFSU@2cfc8c53 [96 68 59] -> ic2.common.TileEntitySolarGenerator@398e3ced [95 68 60] -> ic2.common.TileEntitySolarGenerator@4f0f93f0 [95 68 60])
        at ic2.common.EnergyNet.discover(EnergyNet.java:410)
        at ic2.common.EnergyNet.emitEnergyFrom(EnergyNet.java:190)
        at ic2.common.TileEntityBaseGenerator.sendEnergy(TileEntityBaseGenerator.java:197)
        at ic2.common.TileEntityBaseGenerator.b_(TileEntityBaseGenerator.java:135)
        at rv.l(World.java:1472)
        at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.k(SourceFile:1384)
        at fs.k(fs.java:34)
        at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:666)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Stopping!

Here's hoping someone can help me.

Quote from McFistyBuns

Ok, I think I got the crash when placing stone or gold regulator pipes squared away in v0.21.1. The downside is that you have to run BuildCraft 2.2.5. Sorry about missing that.

ah hah! that solved my crash issue as well.

I don't suppose anyone has any answers to my other two questions I asked above?

Neat.. I don't suppose you know if it works with teleport pipes?
A couple of my machines are all a bit on the distant side so running power to them normally would get interesting. How short is "short"?