[Suggestion] Need for a metering system for IC2 energy

set out a trade-o-mat and 1:1 trade electrolized watercells for regular watercells then count how many regular watercells you get back and multiply that number by how much eu it cost you to electrolyze one cell

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set out a trade-o-mat and 1:1 trade electrolized watercells for regular watercells then count how many regular watercells you get back and multiply that number by how much eu it cost you to electrolyze one cell

Yes it's a good way too, but it's a handable way of selling energy, it's not working with cable ...

But Electric Meter has already been suggested, one more last week ...

I agree. You can create a way of sending power if an operator is online, through use of some timer system to send the ammount of power conatained in one energy unit stored in a central facility. And you could possibly set it up to just sell off a full storage unit (MFE probably) worth of power to a single person. It would still require operators though, which is a bit annoying. Maybe adding some form of system that uses a similar thing to the trade-o-mat to sell power off to a single home based on an item used to pay for it, such as uranium, diamond, iron dust, etc.

How are the users consuming power? Are you looking for an overall statistic of how much power is produced and used across the server? Or are the users using power from a public power plant or something similar and you need to know how much they use?

Would just work with Redstone-O-Mat (I already suggested it) + Timer (or Vanilla equivalents, if you do not have RP2) + Splitter Cable + Detector Cable (Assuming you know about EU/t).

The only issue is that with that idea, you would need to rig up an extremely complicated delayer to be able to know that exactly the right ammount has been sent, and it wouldn't be dynamic, so you would be losing money because it can't stop the timer when power isn't in use, unless you use the RP one. However, not all people like to run it, and it does have some added things to learn how to do that may become annoying.

ok here is an idea you will need the following
1) 2 batbox's
2) 3 batpaks
3) 2 filters
4) some tubes
5) a counter
6) red allow wire

you'll have to work out assembly but the concept is you use tubes to pass a charged batpak from a batbox on generator side to a bat box on the machine side and back and then count the number of times the batbox runs out

I haven't looked into it much yet, but doesn't the new version of nuclear control add energy storage meters? Not sure if they're usable to actually charge for power but it'd be worth looking into.

Use either a computercraft or RP2 computer to monitor the time in ticks that the redstone current from a detector cable is active (check for redstone each tick, then add one to a variable) and then multiply the variable by your eu/t on the cable, then it's a simple matter of calling that multiplied variable to the screen.

I just posted a screenshot in the screenshots section of a power meter/automatic payment system I made. It's quite simple actually.

Energy-O-Mat re-added in the latest update

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1.98:
- Added Energy-O-Mat
- Fixed crash when removing Personal Safes
- Fixed Cropnalyzers adding NBT tags to items in the hotbar
- Fixed crash with rubber tree generation disabled
- Fixed crash when loading some worlds
- Fixed sided inventory for the Crop-Matron (Hydration Cells top, Weed-EX bottom, Fertilizer sides)
- Fixed shift-click behavior with machines
- Fixed console spam when moving energy tiles with frames
- Fully disabled crop trampling
- Miners output to RedPower relays and other smaller inventories
- Improved right-click charging for Single-Use Batteries

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That should cover what you need i think.

Does the Energy-O-Mat have the same function as back in IC1?
If so, it's not really useful, as you'll probably have to buy energy in bulk as you only get 4000 EU per purchase.
Maybe an interface for you to set the Energy-O-Mat output will be useful, or just have multiple versions of the Energy-O-Mat, 10 000 EU, 100 000 EU, 1 million EU and 10 million EU.

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Does the Energy-O-Mat have the same function as back in IC1?
If so, it's not really useful, as you'll probably have to buy energy in bulk as you only get 4000 EU per purchase.
Maybe an interface for you to set the Energy-O-Mat output will be useful, or just have multiple versions of the Energy-O-Mat, 10 000 EU, 100 000 EU, 1 million EU and 10 million EU.

An interface to set the amount would be lovely. Being only able to sell 4000 EU in one trade is very limiting (Like, I'd like to sell a couple million EU to someone for a single uranium ore/ingot, since I can easily turn that uranium into about 28M EU)

The amount is customizable.