Issue with Advanced Regulator

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    I have seen some designs on here for Thorium/Plutonium hybrid reactors. Fuelling on these is often done by an attached GT-AdvanceRegulator as this seems to be the only block capable of placing the different fuels in the right places in the reactors. I have replicated this fueling design in my world reactor setup but I have a issue......


    When the reactor fuel is swapped out the advanced regulator explodes. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


    The advanced regulator does not accept power from the front, i.e. its output face. Thus it is safe to attach it to the side of a reactor, which outputs power itself.


    However, you have placed the advanced regulator in such a way that its upper side facing is flush with the reactor chamber above. Therefore, as soon as the regulator does something, uses energy and requests new energy, the nuclear reactor will attempt to fill that energy request. Since the regulator can only accept up to 32 EU/p, it explodes because your reactor is likely attempting to cram several hundred EU into it at once.

    Ahhhh, so because it has reactor surface both infront (where there would be no input) AND above (where it would accept 32EU/t) it's recieveing the 512EU packets from the reactor......make sense now.


    Thanks very much.....I will redesign.

    I move a reactor chamber and redid the wiring. Now the only face of the regulator that is attached to the reactor is the output (regulator receives power from a different feed) and now everything seems to function as expected.


    Thanks for you help all.