Suggestion: Machine powering redstone when a adjacent BB/MFE/MFS reaches 70% capacity

Dombas · September 10, 2011 at 7:53 PM

Machine powering redstone when a adjacent BB/MFE/MFS reaches 70% capacity.
Similar to how electrolyzer works. It would allow, for example, to send only excess power to a mass fabricator by powering a transformer with redstone.

An alternative:
Instead of redstone power, the Machine could simply send EU. That way the storage unit would essentially always send power through one cable and if over a certain capacity, also through the cable connected to the Machine.

Lurch1985 · September 10, 2011 at 9:00 PM Official Post

Could possibly use the electrolyzer as a kind of selective power relay. Making it either charge water cells, or send the excess power along a cable attached to it when the storage unit is above 70%.

Alblaka · September 11, 2011 at 10:29 AM Official Post

The problem is, if you just add this function and place a line of redstone next to the MFE, it will shut itself off every time it reaches 70%.
We'll need to code a special block only emitting redstone into a certain direction. Which is already planned.