Also, our current Thorium reactor setup designed along the same philosophy:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…lb0q4wxxtv5a3wuglhcmhvwn4
Not quite as inspired design-wise but with only 4 excess cooling it's hard to argue with its 4.11 efficiency
Posts by Beesus
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Hey all,
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…1kksgkv1sfct3p89hp4zseq68
I've been toying around with the reactor planner and lucked out today with this design. I usually prefer no running cost to my reactors and either MKI or MKII because external cooling systems feel cheap to me. My last design of choice was a MKII reactor that required gregtech 360k coolant cells which are very costly in terms of glowstone and don't ever seem to fully cool off properly, so I was very excited to finally work out this MKI that is only 6.6% less efficient per uranium and you can keep dumping more cells in without worrying whether or not the reactor has cooled off enough. For reference, the design that I was using before:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…8hfq43csx6wraav7rtuogn400
Enjoy!
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Thanks for the quick responses, guys. I'll tinker with the storage device idea.
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So I took on my first big high voltage transfer project and I'm a bit confused. I'm using a MFE channeling into a redstone-powered HVT, then over about 150 tiles of 4x insulated iron cable into an unpowered HVT, split into two unpowered MVTs via very short (<10 tiles) lengths of 4xiron cable, which are each adjacent to an unpowered LVT, then into a bank of 16 furnaces via more short (<5 tile) copper wires. I've double checked that the facing of the 3 dots on all transformers is toward the higher voltage. Even using a generous distance of 200 blocks I assumed the energy cost to furnace a stack of something would be about 22,000 EUs since the energy loss for 20k would be (200 * .8) / 2048 or about 8%. It ended up working just fine but taking over 60k EU. From this forum and the wiki I was under the impression that a HVT could only output packets of 2048EU, but this is what I saw with the voltage meter while a couple of the furnaces were operating:
The machine toward the back connecting with the gold cable is the MFE and although I didn't get a screenshot I'm 100% sure that the 3 dots on the HVT are facing toward the iron cable. I've checked over the entire setup again and again. Even if there were a problem on the receiving end, is there any reason at all that it would be sending what looks like tiny packets of 36 and 39 EU at a time? I tried this also with a MVT in between the MFE and HVT at the beginning, but same result.
Thanks in advance. I know it has to be something stupid that I'm missing but I'm out of ideas.