Your stuff is way too low to the ground for the project (which is why I'm checking, as apparently I can in fact blow out windmills even without more height than I already have)
Well, one of my setups is at height 181, so if you consider it too low you can try the compact one at height of 237. However it requires more effort to build it safely (while you are harvesting resources for windtowers).
Building some very high structures and wanted to use windmills to power it. I need clarification on the docs before I dump all my resources into this though.
The wiki says that windmills can be built safely at an effective height of 149 or lower. Is that 149 above sea level (IE, I can build safeley at Y 192 without adding obstructions) or does it mean an effective y of 149?
And can I build them safely all the way up to y256 if I have enough obstructions to keep the power down?
As i've edited the windmill page wiki, here it is :
Maximum safe height is Y 149 (sea level is Y 64).
You can safely build them at Y 255 (256 doesnt allow blocks [however wires can be placed somehow]) if you have enough obstructions to lower the efficiency.
If you place a windmill at Y 255 you will need exactly 106 obstructions. [255-149 = 106], the formula you can see at wiki.
I'd suggest you use my special wind tower setups to generate great amounts of energy and safely (aka no windmill breaking).
Use ComputerCraft and enable command block as peripheral. Then write a program to alter the command to give @p on a redstone signal, that can come from the coins passing through an Item Detector (RP2) or a Redstone Pipe (BC + Additional Pipes).</amount>
That would work even better than my suggestion but it requires programming skills which many doesnt have.
The only way luminators can emit more light is using Factorization's method, which is to add "glowing" air blocks that emit light level 15 around the luminator.
Thats what i have suggested earlier (somewhere) but got ignored. I'd like if luminators spread light a bit farther than factorization wrath lamps, so it can compete and be really useful to light huge areas, for a few EU.
If you have tubestuff (if i'm not wrong) you can use the duplicator (admin block which dupes anything inside it), then some automation stuff (preferably redpower) to automate it.
In the shown setup Batbox will get 16 packets of 32EU. One packet would be stored, other discarded.
The better suggestion would be to emit RS signal with strenght, proportional to stored charge. In 1.5 of course.
Batbox will actually get 4 packets of 32 EU per tick because LV transformer can only handle one MV packet, everything else is stored inside transformers buffer until it has a place to go.
For example :
MFSU emits a HV packet of 512 EU which goes to a MV transformer which tries to emit 4 MV packets to a LV transformer, but it only accepts one MV packet, other three MV packets gets stored in the MV transformer waiting for the LV transformer to send the first MV packet.
After 4 ticks MV transformer buffer will be empty, LV transformer successfully sent 16 LV packets (assuming it has a place to go) and MFSU will send another HV packet, resetting the whole process.
Tick one :
MFSU (Send one HV packet) -> MV trans (Have 3 stored MV packets) -> LV trans (Output 4 LV packets) -> Batbox (receives 4 LV packets)
Tick two :
MFSU (do nothing) -> MV trans (Have 2 stored MV packets) -> LV trans (Output 4 LV packets) -> Batbox (receives 4 LV packets)
Tick three :
MFSU (do nothing) -> MV trans (Have 1 stored MV packets) -> LV trans (Output 4 LV packets) -> Batbox (receives 4 LV packets)
Tick four :
MFSU (do nothing) -> MV trans (Have 0 stored MV packets) -> LV trans (Output 4 LV packets) -> Batbox (receives 4 LV packets)
Tick five (same as one, the process starts again) :
MFSU (Send one HV packet) -> MV trans (Have 3 stored MV packets) -> LV trans (Output 4 LV packets) -> Batbox (receives 4 LV packets)
...
So how about adding that button GUI for transformers too, as my MV transformers on windtowers always have to be redstoned. {and i don't like placing those silly levers}
You don't have to worry about energy waste, when machine requests energy or lowering/increasing "voltage" as already mentioned before.
Batbox doesn't show 40480/40000 for example because it would look very silly.
However if you try nuclear control energy sensor kits, it does show those extra EU stored inside storage boxes.
You get energy from cables, not from potato. Also there already is SUB in IC2.
I know but, this is minecraft who cares?
Potato farm + a stack of each cable + autocrafting + decharging system + automation (re-use of cables) = (silly) energy generation.
However, since books are present in the game, I would say that this is a nice suggestion to add...
Maybe a craftable book which contains all IC² wiki recipes, some useful (maybe HAYOISH) information and a changelog (of last five versions) ?
Don't forget GregTech (however it would be insane to use it to transport items over long distaces).
Transmitting via ULV may cause lag, actually. I used Advanced Solar Panels' Quantum Gen for my Test World and emitted about 131k EU through 32 EU-p and my FPS was quartered as compared to emitting via 512 EU-p.
My second way counter that , people could only transfer up to 4 8 EU packets in a single wire (32 EU/t)
To allow tin cables to be used as low-energy-long-distance transfer :
ULV transformer takes one LV packet and splits into 16 ULV packets of 2 EU/p each.
If you want to transfer more than 32 EU/t through distances higher than 40 blocks without any loss through ULV wires you will require lots of ULV transformers.
OR
Increase ULV cable packet limit to 8 EU/p.
ULV transformer takes one LV packet and splits into 4 ULV packets of 8 EU/p each.
Make ULV wires have a limit of four 8 EU packets. Other smaller packets remain unlimited (0-7 EU/p)
ULV transformer recipe :
-> Stone -> ULV cable
Others are what the sprite represent.
When this would be used :
Powering luminators, powering low-tier machines which are within 40 blocks of a batbox without any loss, transfering (very) small amounts of energy cheaply (f.e you want to transfer some energy to a friend's house cheaply)
512 to 2048, redstone signal is needed (attach a lever and activate, is a good way)
Very old thread, necroposting 
Anyway, please don't necropost unless you are adding something very important related to it.
I would like if factorization had some cross-mod compatibility with IC².
Last post was like 4 months ago, this thread only just got opened by a spambot.
And i didn't notice it (as i don't read everypost). Sorry lol haha.
You are powering your workshop with one windtower, get some more and you will be able to feed a mass fabricator with tons of energy.
Till my buddy failed a calculus, mistaking a uranium cell, by a double uranium cell wich triggered a couple of explosions ending up with a big hole on the ground.
Thats why i don't like reactors when you don't have failsafe like Nuclear Control. Actually even if i do i wouldn't use as uranium is not (normally) renewable and wind generates energy indefinetely.
[Forestry Extra bees and EE³ make uranium renewable]
A fusion reactor, it produces absolutely insane amounts of EUs, if I remember correctly 32,000+ EU/t
Fusion reactor? Nah, i can generate 6000 - 15000 EU/t with windmills...
