weirleader

look up three posts... :-)

one additional suggestion: mining turtles = safe and easy ore extraction; no explosions, no attacks by zombie pigmen.

I know, it's a stretch of the imagination.

I grabbed it from this post (see the last post for the link). It seems it's based on Sphax 128, but may have some modifications.

The "arrows" in this example, are the six 'pixels' adjacent to the orange/blue bars. in both cases, they sort of 'point' right.

think this image will work; let me know if it doesn't. [EDIT: guess I can see for myself] [EDIT #2: orange arrow point out (right), blue arrow pointing in (also right, in this case)]

right at the juncture between conduit and energy cell should be something indicating direction; whacking it (right-clicking) with the wrench will toggle it to IN or OUT. I'd share a pic, but I've never posted images on this forum and I know they have some specific way you're supposed to do it. If you continue to struggle with it, I'll see about uploading a pic.

did you make sure that (a) the orange arrow is pointing out (as opposed to a blue arrow pointed in) -- if not, right-click with the wrench so it's in output mode, and ( maybe this is silly to point out, but is your redstone energy cell set to require a redstone signal? (EDIT: oh, just occurred to me that orange/blue might simply be my texture pack; but there should be some sort of arrows indicating directionality)

in short, yes. And they (redstone energy conduits) do a good job of bleeding off energy when a system is at capacity so that engines don't overheat (at least, my magmatics don't).

THANK YOU! I could not figure out what I was doing wrong, and it just never occurred to me that of course the dimension wasn't loaded.

you might keep an eye on this thread, as it's already on the same topic and has quite a bit of input.

Can't believe I have to ask this, but I've searched and cannot find the answer: How do you use a straw on mob essence? I was just taking a look at this feature and was able to extract essence and transpose it to a tank. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how the straw operates to ingest it! EDIT: so, in a fit of desperation, I poured it out on the floor and drank from it. Can't believe it was that obvious. I somehow figure it'd let you drink from a bucket, for example. *facepalm*

you might start here: http://ae-mod.info/

I hear you -- I've been struggling with the same (general) problem. I thought myself pretty handy at logic gates, but that was limited to and/or/xor/nor/etc.... other generally basic gates. Now that I've been introduced to things like an SR-Latch I'm realizing I've got a long way to go. And, like you, everything I find is crazily technical and not a whole lot of practical help (as far as I can tell). So if you find something useful, please post it back here!

well I did a complete system overhaul and managed to implement a similar setup, so thanks for the pics. I wasn't sure what qualified as Set or Reset in the SR Latch, but trial and error worked just fine for that. However, I am using this setup with a magmatic array and so my magma crucible is linked in to the SR Latch. This is causing me problems when I want to independently trigger the crucible (for non-power-related magma generation), because I can't figure out how to create an OR gate based on (1) a lever and (2) the SR Gate. I have to imagine it's possible, I just suspect I don't understand RedNet or the PRC well enough to properly implement it. RedNet tips anyone? [EDIT: Never mind; figured out it was just tunnel vision. I was so sure I was messing up the RedNet that it never occurred to me that the liquiducts were full (thus preventing the crucible from engaging). Just using the Output from the first Channel as one of the inputs on the second was sufficient... I feel sheepish.]

maybe it's a case of empty/not? Buckets can only be empty/not empty, redstone conduit can either be charged or not (edit: I mean, infused with redstone, whatever that's called)... maybe the Tranposer only recognizes that it's not empty any more?

yep, that worked -- I feel silly now for having destroyed the first one; but I love how inexpensive that mistake turned out to be.

can you pick up a linking book once it's been placed on a stand? maybe I did it wrong, but I seem to have destroyed mine.

yeah, well, my son and brother gave them a try within hours of firing up the new Tekkit and immediately got lost. One could return, the other couldn't; then they got separated (I'm still not sure of the details) and I finally decided to teleport him back to base (since I control the server), but I'd never had to use /tpx before and I managed to screw that up too, killing him multiple times before finally figuring it out. By his description, I think he was in limbo for at least part of the time. Suffice it to say, after that fiasco, we're all a bit hesitant to touch Dimensional Doors again. :-D

wow, thanks for the detailed description. I have been meaning to poke around at Mystcraft (I believe that's what you're referring to) but just hadn't gotten around to it. This makes me think I really am wasting my time if I don't!

http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/help-please.45042/#post-369613

you might try this thread

and I'd highly recommend this video -- RedNet stuff is sweet!

and may I recommend steam engines, magmatic engines, or combustion engines as opposed to stirlings? Maybe I'm just bitter, but I had so many of those blow up on me because I got distracted and left them unattended. Steam and magmatic don't blow up (though magmatic will seize on you if they max out and can't distribute power -- smack them with a wrench), and combustion won't if you keep them cooled with water (haven't tried that yet, but that's my understanding). And all (I believe) produce more power than stirlings.

excellent -- looking forward to trying this. Of course, I still need to get an assembly table operational; but this is my first project as soon as that's done. Thanks!