Thanks for the help. I read up on everything regarding cables, but really I didn't know what to think. Since I've never used IC and started using IC2. Despite watching videos for IC & IC2, so really I felt out of place and thought I'd ask for help.
Goes to show, even simple things are a challenge for some of us. 
I have spent hours looking between various videos be it tutorials, Let's Play or otherwise. Also looking at the wiki, trying to see where I'm going wrong. The problem is everyone uses different types of cables, when using solar panels and it works just fine for them. Am I missing something, that's used in the process or was something changed?
Be it just 1 solar panel on a newly started map, or a fully built solar array, I cannot collect power with any cable aside from glass fiber. I'm mostly looking for using this in my SMP server, but it's the same in SSP and SMP for issues. Is there any possible way of using other cables, aside from the glass fiber for solar collection?
Just tell me I'm doing something basic wrong, because I would feel better knowing that. 
