Posts by chikitulfo

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A possible solution would be for machines to emit a redstone current while working.

Yeah that could be even better.

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The only problem with this is that the power to the machines will be intermittent, rather than continuous.

Yeah, I already thought that it would be intermittent, no problem with that at all, as far as no current gets lost in completely charged MFEs.

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I realize thats probably confusing, I think ill make the system and post a pic.

Not very confusing, I understood perfectly your idea.

Although for that I need an MFE redstoned, and thus this MFE is not sending its current to the more important machines all the time, because it charges itself first.
It's a grat idea though, I'll think about it and see how can it be done.

The ideal thing would be to have a way of detecting that an MFE is fully charged when it is not redstoned (and therefore forwarding all current), which would mean that there's nothing requesting energy ahead of it. At that moment, there's no need for energy on the main machines, and the storage is full. Then it's the perfect time to switch on the mass generator.

For that some kind of detector block that turns redstone on when an MFE is full or whatever would be really useful...

Because using an energy-o-mat to detect current in a cable wouldn't work unless the MFE is set up to fill up before sending energy. And if it is set up for that is not sending current to the higher priority machines either...

Yeah, the idea of it with the use of a lever I have in mind, what I really want is to automate it to "turn the lever down" when the storage array is full...

Not even possible with an energy-o-mat as was suggested on the minecraftforum (when they work properly, that is)?

Hi everyone!

So here is the situation: I have all my different generators wired to an array of MFEs to store the energy, and then after the array i have all my machines, which are most of the time working.

The thing is, whenever I'm not heavily macerating, compressing and extracting things, the generators fill up really quickly the energy storage array.
Therefore, in order to not have a lot of unused energy, I thought of having a mass generator that would only work whenever I have all my storage array completely filled.

What i want is: Some machines (macerators, furnaces and so on) are able to work whenever there's any energy on the storage array, and some other machines (mass generator) will not work unless the array is completely full (meaning machines are not working).

I thought about a switch cable, that will be turned on by redstone to power the mass generator, but for that some kind of mechanism that automatically powers the redstone would be needed.

Does anyone have any idea about how this could be achieved?