Bob Leonard

Hi Plowmanplow. Thanks for the response. I'm using fuel refined from oil. So, it should output plenty of MJ/t. After poking around the forums for a while, I found someone mention connecting the output of the engine to more than one face of a redstone energy cell. When I tried this I found that the energy cell was receiving energy at a much faster rate. Why is this necessary? Does the engine only produce energy on strokes (producing an average of 6MJ/t through energy pulses)? Is the best practice to simply to build a large number of energy cells? If energy cells are touching, will they transfer energy between them? Lastly, on point one: are you saying the engine will only produce 6MJ/t if the engine is using oil and running on red?

I'm trying to use combustion engines to power a quarry, and I've noticed a problem with my MJ/t. I've read online that combustion engines should output 6MJ/t (although I've never been totally clear if this is on green, yellow, or red). However, if I connect a combustion engine to a redstone energy cell I can control the rate that energy leaves the energy cell. Theoretically, if the combustion engine produced 6 MJ/t, and I set the redstone energy cell to output a maximum of 5 MJ/t (with a load connected to the energy cell, like a quarry), then the redstone energy cell should built up a surplus of energy. However, when I try this (with a combustion engine running on green), I find that the redstone energy cell never fills. Moreover, I found that when I connect two engines to the redstone energy cell the energy cell will accumulate energy when I set the output to 2MJ/t, but it will drain when I set the output to 3 MJ/t, suggesting that each engine is outputting between 1 and 1.5 MJ/t (again the engines are running on green). I've tried using conductive pipe as well as redstone conduit with the same results. So the question is: what's wrong with my reasoning? Do combustion engines really output such low power on green? Or, do I not understand redstone energy cells? Perhaps its a difference of ticks versus seconds? I should note that I'm not using the most recent version of tekkit. I'm currently using 1.1.5 because I found that everything beyond this version breaks the conductive pipe gates.