Cable Loss Calculator - CLC

That is very nice, good job! *bookmarks*

There is a typo at the start: "Enter total EU traveling trough cable", should be "travelling through cable"

Personally i know how to use each cable, but i see how this could be good for beginners.
Great job.

PS: the site "logo" is pure win

Nice thing but the numbers in the darkgrey fields of the table confuse the hell out of me, I understood that the color shows if a combination is good or bad but that's it.
If they show the loss, then why does Glassfiber show for 121 EUt over 200 blocks 1210 in green in the 1eu packet row?

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Hello Everyone!

Some weeks/month ago I started playing IndustrialCraft2. And I'm the thinker type of person, always engeneering new stuff. So I was wondering about the cables and how they work. It was really confusing and the wiki didn't really help. But then I found this part of the forum and suddenly I understood how all those and and work and so on. So I sat down and updated the wiki. Adding more info to EU and Cable Loss.
To help others in this situation and to help deciding what cable to use I decided to create a JavaScript Cable Loss Calculator! Now after 2 weeks it's done (learned javascript from scratch ).

You can find it at this link below on my server:

Cable Loss Calculator

(I will update the link once I got some domain.)

Im open to feedback and bugreports. Please tell me what you think.

Greetings Lomsor

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Could you change it to a percentage (or just add a percentage somewhere), eg if I lose 32 EU and I am using 128 EU packets it should have 25% loss somewhere- would be very handy :D.

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Some questions:
What's the max output of the nuclear reactor? It would be handy to know to update the wiki.

The absolute maximum you run it like this for more than a handful of seconds and it's a bomb maximum? 2400 EU/t
Note your basically not going to see a configuration like that. Something more "realistic" would be missing a chamber, the top layer would be empty and it would have ice being pumped in. Still a bomb waiting to happen though.

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Hey everyone ... I've updated CLC. It includes now:

Percentage!

Overall Colors! With Parabola modifier so that you can see a difference even at lower numbers!

Thanks for the requests and feedback!

Edit:
Wow the lowering of the Glass Fibre Cable is impressive. 5%(@512EU-P) Loss over 1000 Blocks compared to 39%(@2048EU-P) With HV Cable! But expensive he ...

Some questions:
What's the max output of the nuclear reactor? It would be handy to know to update the wiki.

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You asked for one, i will give you three...

The max output of the reactor using ONLY uranium cells is 2,400 EU/t with a max generation time of 6 seconds.
With a water CASUC you can get 1740 EU/t and run it forever as long as you supply (and remove) 8 buckets per second.
With an ice CASUC you can get 1820 EU/t and run it forever as long as you supply 6 ice blocks per second.

EDIT: Err, i forgot to remove a chamber on the ice CASUC, it's 1820... Not 2050! And 6 ice blocks per sec.

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Thanks for the answers. Just noticed RawCode just updated EU on the WIKI. I asked because nothing can support 2400EU-Packets and it would burn any wire and device even EV-Travos.

Well, a HV transformer on a reactor chamber that is converting to HV will survive the reactors output AFAIK. Even then, attaching more than 1 cable to the reactor will (AFAIK) split the 2,400 EU packet into smaller packets.
Even so, I don't even think there is a >2048 EU/packet check on HV transformers converting down to HV... Only one way to know for sure eh?

I'm glad Someone made a calculator like this but i gotta say.. since i'm color blind It's very difficult for my eyes to make out a few of the colors from the background. Would there happen to be a version of this that uses something I personally could more easily read? IE something that uses symbols instead of colors?

and yes i do have trouble discerning green from orange

Edit: What i mean to say is, Not only is it the green from orange.. but the color of the background happens to be one that causes everything to blend to my eyes so i strain to be able to make out the numbers

Percentage of loss?
For example "Power Lost: %20"

the easiest colors for Me personaly to be able to read without having to strain my vision are Black, white, Grey, red, and blue. Greens yellows and some oranges blend to easily. There are a few diffrent forms of color blindness though and each person is different so if anyone else who has a similar problem with the loss calculator please post!

The calculator is great! I'm glad that you have the percentage checkbox, and personally will always have it checked.

Do you know anything about loss when combining multiple types of cable? When I have an array of solar cells or waterwheels, I usually use tin cable for all the junctions (no loss for 39 meters), then switch to insulated copper (no loss for 4 meters), before finally going to a batbox or transformer. But, I wonder if I could just alternate between tin and copper indefinitely without loss.

Do you know how this is handled?

What about forks? If there is 5 insulated copper for a line, it will have loss, but what if those 5 copper insulated pieces are forked, so that no path is longer than 4? Is there loss then?

I don't think you should update it, because cable loss are easy to calculate, compared to Nuclear Things ...

^ I don't know that I'd say that. What I would say is, you probably don't need to update it because cables haven't really changed. It should all be accurate still.

I didn't even know about this until just now. Awesome!