Tutorial: How to Cheap and simple wire Solars (13 and 32 flowers)

Quote from Viktor_Berg

Here is another 32-panel design, slightly more compact (7x7 instead of 9x9):

I must say, this one looks beautiful :3

Quote from Gorni

i HIGHLY disrecommend making wireplanes, this will cause your computer to get HUGE cpu spikes caused by the calculation of all possible wire connections, and at a certain point (about 5*5 plane) kill your game, rendering your world unloadable.

Could always use the nifty painter item thing to make coloured cables. I may play around with that later...

As well, Machines != Conductors.
Thus you can freely set up the flowers like mentioned above, as long as you keep the number of cables intersecting low.

5x5 grid = lots of 4er connections.
Solar panel above = 4 3er connections, nothing else

Quote from Gorni

i HIGHLY disrecommend making wireplanes, this will cause your computer to get HUGE cpu spikes caused by the calculation of all possible wire connections, and at a certain point (about 5*5 plane) kill your game, rendering your world unloadable.

This will be fixed in a later release

I approve of excessive usage of cable coloring :3
Disapprove of TMI'd stuff though.

61EU flat array using only an MFE, taking advantage of the fact that:

• 61 x 1EU pulses don't combine to a 61EU pulse, and thus won't fry copper cable or a BatBox. (But I used an MFE anyway since a BatBox wouldn't be able to discharge as fast as it was being fed.)
• Even if they did, none of the cables actually take >32EU anyway, because of the intelligent pathing in the energy net (and at the moment, cable colors, but that's just to save CPU - it'd work even without them). The sides of the MFE are only taking in 25EU, 5EU, 25EU, and 5EU.

11x11 square, but still 100% space efficient because they can be placed right next to each other diagonally. Yes, I TMI'd this, my real array is only a 32EU.

Felt a pang of pride and had to share my new setup. Half an inventory full of iron ingots (legitimately mined, this is in my non-cheating map!) later, I've got a lovely 17x17 (diamond shape) 128EU setup based roughly on four of Viktor_Berg's aesthetically awesome design. 128 solar panels, 4 batboxes, and 1 MFE to collect my winnings. Throw in an LV transformer to turn it back to 32EU pulses so I can wire some of it to my other machines, throw whatever they're not using to a matter generator, and bam. I'm turning sunlight into diamonds. (Or iridium plates, as the case may be.) I can screenshot a disassembly of it if anyone wants, but it's pretty much just what's in this thread already. Awesome stuff.

Yeah, having a diamond array in a square world just looks awkward. But I'm too OCD not to have exactly 4x64 panels.