Just for completeness sake, I did leave two re-bats in the charging bench. Sure enough, they're both gone, along with the charge that was in the bench. I'll be sure to let you know if the problem persists after I do all the updating next week.
Merry Christmas!
When my company leaves after Christmas, I'll certainly give that a try. It's entirely possible there's some kind of strange interaction with one of the other mods I have (I only listed the ones that seemed to be directly related to the issue at hand). Also, since 1.4.6 is out, I'll likely be doing an update to that as well, and (hopefully) installing Redpower to boot. So after all those different things, this might just all go away on its own anyhow. Eheh.
Already have an update. My server got restarted just recently.
I set up a high voltage charging bench along the line between an MFSU and an LESU (so it's being fed by the MFSU.) I also set up a storage monitor and linked it it the MFSU. The MFSU is being fed by a standard IC2 reactor. The facility is all within the range of a RailCraft World Anchor.
Before the server restarted, the monitor linked to the MFSU was showing data, as was another linked to the LESU. The charging bench had more than 6m EU stored in it. I logged in about 15 minutes after the restart and am the only player who has been on. Both the storage monitor cards have disappeared and the HV Charging Bench was below 1m EU, charging again from the reactor that was running at the time of the restart.
So, color me confused... But, there's what I've been able to gather through this little test. Unfortunately, I had NOT left any ITEMS in the HV charging bench - only energy. It was my intention to do so, but the restart caught me off guard (still getting used to this host's schedules).
I'll try leaving a cheap electrical in a charging bench AND I'll set up a storage monitor to watch a non-gregtech storage block. Probably be a couple days before I find the results of these two tests. Company coming in to town for the holidays tomorrow. I WILL get back to you when I can with what I find.
Hmm... Much though I love APM for the charging benches and (now that I know about them) the storage monitors, I'm having a couple of strange problems. I'm not exactly sure what is at fault on both of these cases, as they seem to only happen while I'm logged off. First, the relevant (I think) version info:
Forge 6.4.1.430
IndustrialCraft2 1.110.137-lf
APM 1.1.42 for IC2_1.109
GregTech 2.54b
So, here are the two strange issues that are taking place...
First, I have repeatedly logged in to find my HV Charging Bench and the energy storage device that feeds it drained. No items are left in it to charge, it's not being provided a redstone signal, no other devices on the energy network are drawing constant power. I'll leave with full power in the HV bench and come back to find my whole network dry. Since removing the HV Charging Bench from my network there have been no problems.
Second, I have two GregTech energy storage systems that I am trying to use with Storage Monitors. The first is an LESU with enough blocks added on to provide 28m EU storage. The other is an AESU. I've created the cards, linked them with the devices, placed them in the Storage Monitors and everything works absolutely perfectly... but when I log back in after some amount of time with nobody on the server, both the cards have vanished.
In either case, it -seems- that these two issues happen at some point after a daily reset that the server provider schedules, but when I do a -manual- reset, everything seems to be just fine. Also, in the case of the charging bench problem, another set-up which has ONLY a charging bench, MFSU and a reactor seems to hold its charge (though it exists in a separate (mystcraft) world AND I haven't heard of any of my other players having the same kind of problem.
As to the second case, I'm not sure if that might be a GregTech problem or an APM problem, but as I said - everything does work just fine. It's simply that the cards vanish without any explanation that I've found.
I've got to say, I'm quite impressed with GregTech. It adds an incredible amount of planning and thinking and working on things to pull off this or that outcome. But I have just one question (that's quite likely been answered before but sheesh... 182 pages?).
Is our illustrious add-on author a very bored real-life chemist? There's crazy detail about all those minerals!
