Noob Breeding question!

to work out heat levels the best way to have a look at heat levels is to have a coolant cell or some other component inside the reactor to give some kind of heat levels.

I don't use reactors much, too much trouble to sort out

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…=1k10101001501521s1r11r10

use htat to help you sort out a good reactor, it is a really good tool

lol, i don't know what that reactor is to be honest. for some weird reason the app has never worked for me, that was just the link i have in my bookmarks.

I use the downloaded version

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http://forum.industrial-craft.…page=Thread&threadID=4915

If your breeder has heat dispensers, advanced heating techniques can drop the heat up time to ~30 minutes from ~45+ with the typical heat up configurations from cold start. Storing hot parts is the only way to significantly reduce the heat up time. If you find any other way, let me know.
Without heat dispensers, 5 buckets of lava is 10k heat in the hull, instantly, and hull is all that matters to breeders.

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So you're telling me to run this for 40 mins:

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…g=1m101010114010101001010

And then use this to breed?: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…c=1m101010114110101001019

That's one way to do it, sure. Probably easiest for a novice. Another easy alternative is to store hot parts when a energy producing config finishes, and use those hot parts to breed with. Further down the linked tutorial post is more advanced techniques that can be done quicker, but require your attention.

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Also,
my reactor has six chambers, and is surrounded by water. Will this make
a difference?

Yes, but easy to adjust for. Additional external cooling reduces the number of cooling cells for neutral breeding config. Less parts means less time heating in heating config.
Heating config http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…cve2ls31q1y0ymvq5c377i5mo
Breeding config http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…vxtxx383h1exh7hpsdbj61khs

Quote from Rroy141

And does the water around the reactor have to be a source
block, or can it be running water?

% of max hull heat Environmental effect
40% Flammable blocks within a 5x5x5 cube have a chance of burning.
50% Water blocks within a 5x5x5 cube (both sources and flowing) will have a chance of evaporating.

Do not count on source blocks, at breeding temperatures they will evaporate and will not be replaced. Please use flowing water, it has the same cooling effects, without the unreliability.

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Since this is a different plan, should I run it for a different amount of time? Or the same 40 mins?

Slightly less. The hotter it is, the better it breeds. Look at the meltdown time on the heating config. Switch configs shortly before that time. It is slightly different but still exceeds 40 minutes. A good rule of thumb is when the heat bar on your parts has lost the last red dot indicating it has some durability left, it's time to turn down the heat.

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Also, I plan to have a wire coming from the reactor to my MFSU.. Is this accounted for in these plans?

Wires and redstone (for your off switch) can both be attatched to chambers, and need not connect directly to the reactor. I like my wire from the bottom, redstone from the side. A lot of people like redstone from the bottom. The only time you'd need direct access to the reactor is pipes/tubing to insert single use coolants continuously.