[TOOL] [V1.95b] Percentage based cable loss & resource calculator!

http://bbqroast.strangled.net/stuff/cableCalc/
I just put together a percentage based cable loss calculator.
Notes:

• I am using my own server for now, but if my router crashes and my auto update script doesn't work I will end up with a different IP than the one the link points to (strangled is a freeDNS service). Resulting in it being down.
• IC2 rounds up when the power arrives, for example if you have 4 blocks of insulated copper cable you lose 4% of 32 EU. This is 0.96 EU, so you have 31.04EU which is rounded up to 32 EU.
• Note that the resources part lists the amount of materials that will be needed, not used. For example if you put in "13" it will say you need 9 copper for uninsulated copper cable which actually makes 18 cables (because you can't make exactly 13 so it rounds upwards to the nearest possibility).
• The wiki is wrong about Glass Fiber cables. It seems to have wildly changing estimates (namely 20 and 50) however I have tested it myself and confirmed that the loss is 0.025 or 1 EU every 40 blocks (the wiki has the same loss value in some places, but says that that means it loses 1 EU every 50, not 40 blocks which is wrong (try 0.025 * 50 and 0.025 * 40)).

Please report any bugs on this thread.

Ok I'm working on adding an ingredients table now.

Soz was away on a bike trip.
Thanks a ton for the feed back, nice to see it getting used (about 40~ hits a day :).

Quote from Zudguard

just curious, but why is this both on electric engineering and the industrial engineering forum sections.....?

I thought the Electric Engineering forum was kind of... dead. Everyone uses the Industrial Engineering forum now (which I didn't even know you could post in because my laptop had such a small screen).

Ok guys I added the resources feature! It just tells you the amount of each material you will need :).

Quote from _Tim_

Nice stuff.

Small thing:

How in the world did I not notice that!?!
Fixed.

afraid.org is mind fucking me.
Seems to be working (before the update link wasn't working, the owner kindly helped me and gave me another one on port 8080 which worked. Now the 8080 one doesn't work and the regular one does!).

Quote from ccrraazzyyman

Is this calculating glass fibre loss correctly? I was under the assumption it was 1 loss per 20 cable, and I put 45 in your calculator and it says -1 for loss.

Wiki is broken beyond belief. In some places it has the right cable loss value (0.025EU/block) but the wrong max cable length (in some places it says 50, in others 20). In reality it comes out to 40 blocks (or 0.025EU/block, tested by myself) or 39 blocks because of the way it all works.
Anyway point is if something contradicts the wiki create a new creative world (or get NEI) and do some testing, for science.