Hi guys,
I just wanted some input to energy storage,
right now I have 44 mfsu in 4 rows,
:MFS-Unit: :MFS-Unit:
Like this,
yes they are connected in the middle for an even distribution of energy.
My problem is now I need more storage and more output,
I can’t get ideas for a compact design,
hope you could help me
More?
We need Ultimate MFSU with 100 bilion storage!!
Honestly I wouldn't suggest it. Why you need so much energy? Mass fab can use any amount (in 512 EU packets). There is nothing else which would take so much energy in reasonable time.
You can also use electrolysers, one block with hydrogen cells in chests stores 3 times the capacity of mfsu, and really sick amounts with diamond chests. Unfortunately they discharge slowly. If you are rich you could alternatively use lapotron crystals.
Read this forum topic i started awhile, it will tell you the benefits of wiring storage units in different ways.
[Question] Parallel v. series
So maybe you should just go deeper?
Diamond Chest full of Laptrons seems like your best option, despite the huge expense...
Diamond Chest full of Laptrons seems like your best option, despite the huge expense...
nice idea, a chest with lapotrons can hold more EU than a MFSU. except from that, use a third dimension to place the MFSU's. you can't make them smaller so a block with only MFSU's is already the smallest design.
Most compact energy storage is, naturally, uranium blocks. One stack of them is 40 billion eu. Sadly, it requires a complex machinery to tap in.
Overall, energy storage in IC is very, very inferior to energy production. Energy is use it, or lose it. Not that much unlike RL, actually.
no other mods then IC² no Laptroncrystalls in chests, just plain mfsus.
that's pretty much the problem. it would be a not even noteworthy effort to build something with RP2 wiring/logic to let your last MFSU's emit a signal once full and stop all generators to not waste fuel.
on the other hand is RP2 only making things smaller and easier to handle. with clever placing of your generators/MFSU's and some normal redstone logic arrays (those big things with torches people already created years ago before RP1) you could do this. those logic gates should still be somewhere on the minecraft wiki.
Just wondering, what r u gonna run with all that power?! If its for massfab (what else) then I would place all the mfsu's output side up and run wires along both the bottom and top of every mfsu. Then make input connect somewhere on the bottom, and somewhere along the top, put a spliter cable connected to massfab. Then, run redstone to a lever. Pull lever for uu.
With this design, every mfsu outputs at the same time and u will never need more storage, becaue u will be able to output all the energy at once.
Optional, put an inverter (realy easy, even with normal redstone) in the redstone line and use a button in place of a lever. This will make the massfab default to off, and when u press the button, it will turb on the massfab for a few ticks, and make a bit of uu.
Why not store energy in form of UU?
