[Suggestion] Solar Panel output spot

So basically through the use of a wrench, you want solar panels to act like RP solar panels and transmit energy? If so then I definitely like the idea

cool, i'm ok with this but only if the solar panels's output are ULV.
so u can connect 5 solar panels together without using cable, acting like one but after that, if u connect the 6th it will explode for overload.
Completely remove the need of tin cable into solar is bad in my opinion....

Maxing the cumulative output of a single pannel to 5 seems perfectly reasonable. An array of solars would tile like a sugarcane plantation in the sky. So very high. In the sky.

Otherwise, it is limited simply by the quality of the cable connecting to the solar hub. If tin, you don't want more than 5 strung together; if copper, 32; etc. That would be much more freeform and, considering it, I'm happier with that. If cable isn't used and you were to, for example, have the hub output directly into a mass fab... well you could string up 512 of them safely, but that seems like it might be too ridiculous a situation to contemplate.

I am a bit puzzled by this suggestion -- turning a generator into a hybrid storage block, and internalizing the cabling.

I say "storage block" since, assuming the generation of EU occurs prior to transmitting, a solar 'downstream' (closer to the stalk of the solar flower) would need to store all or a portion of the EU transmitted to it during the previous tick. I am unfamiliar with the code for the E-net, so I don't know how possible it is to combine the two classes of object.

Putting that aside, we have the concern of size. If restricted to LV, one would be able to construct a field roughly 64x64 (imagine a grid of city blocks and how one would calculate the distances). This is greater than the distance permitted by tin nets, and thus may tend to encourage solar spamming. I am given to understand from Alblaka that EU-spam is virtually non-existent. One would need to experiment to find out if this new mechanism would offset the increase in solar sun-checks, which I am also given to understand has become negligible. (whoops, tin would be 80x80. Found during proofreading)In addition, it has the additional property of decreasing the cost of a solar field by the cost of the cables -- especially when using an electric wrench.

Personally, I would be more inclined towards a mechanism for coloring tin cables (which has been previously suggested). Such would do something similar to this without the additional algorithmic overhead of having to double-wrench a solar to remove it, nor of having to make sure you don't miswire your solar-chains and cause an explosion. (*)

Not a bad idea, but I think it requires some further refinement to avoid exacerbating what it may be intended to ameliorate.

* -- Okay, so the explosion possibility may be a plus to some who dislike solar

So solar panels can output into other solar panels, effectively being used as micro storage blocks? How much EU of input could a solar panel withstand?
I'm not satisfied with how the mechanic of the output spot works, having to orient hundreds of panels for a solar farm.

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If Solar Panel has no side marked as output, it behaves as now.

That creates a small problem. How do I return them to an "outputless" state?

Throwing another idea into the pot:
Not sure if this can be easily done, but can't solar panels check for other adjacent panels and then be grouped, having only one single output spot?

Only the panel that is set down / removed would have to check once, it's not something that has to be repeated.

Of course there has to be a limit or else ULV cables will become redundant.
In combination with the connected textures mod, that comes built-in with optifine, I can imagine beautiful 3x3 sized solar areas.

Quote from Alblaka in a PM (in same thread, gave permission to quote) [sic]:

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Indeed 100 1EU packets cause 100 times the labor (> ms ned by CPU) a single 100EU packet would cause.

This labor is, however, abyssimally small in IC² (whilst it was a killer in IC1) and can be neclected.

However, nontheless the simple existance of 100 Generator producing said small packages is a significant amount of labor, compared to a few Geothermals (or Nuclears, though these again cause a lot of labor due to the way their calculation works).

Using High-yield (Generator, GeoGen, Reactor with high output) generators IS less labor-creating then using numerious smaller generators. In the end both are quite neclectable in regards to labor until you intend to build them in masses (talking about a few k and upwards).

Wiring is barely capable of creating any real lag. The only time it can is by removing/adding(or in regards to Splitter cables, switching) elements of the Enet. Thus if you build a giant 32³ cube of wires and
then connect a splitter cable with a rapidly ticking redstone clock, it's "User-created wiring lag", yes. Otherwise you should barely see issues.

The most noticeable lag issue of IC² is sound, currently.

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