PixieNinja

Yeah, forgot to add that I had Forestry installed along with Tekkit. I see posts for people installing Forestry, so hoped that this would have some relevance here, just in case this is due to some incompatibility between the two, and in case it's some documented issue with a simple fix. I shall take my query to the Forestry forums and hope I can find assistance there.

In my game, Crated Nikolite doesn't seem to exist. NEI shows up "crate with unknown content" where I suspect it should be, as it looks like a picture of Nikolite on a crate, but the game doesn't allow me to craft any. Is there a simple fix that I can do in order to get it working?

Sounds good in theory, but how do I implement this via the Tekkit mods?

I know that's the easiest option, but I kinda like the machinery noises, just not this one! I really wanted some way of setting up a power supply where some of it can remain dormant until more power is needed. For now, I've split my 8 geothermals to supply 2 MFEs, so power is now just being drained from a single one, and hence four of the geothermals are turned off. I assume that, once more power is required and the first MFE has been drained, then the 2nd one will kick in.

I'm not too familiar with the rate at which energy flows - can't my current system fill the MFE quicker than it can drain? In which case, the geothermals would be off whilst the 2nd MFE was being drained, but the same behaviour would be experienced when the 1st MFE was draining into the 2nd. Unless I'm misunderstanding the concept?

I wonder if my best approach would simply be to cut off the MFE until I have enough devices to need more power than my 8 geothermals knock out, save them simply just topping it up a few times a second? It seems that the MFE will always be drained no matter how I hook up the geothermals, even if I bypass it as well as supply it. Not sure if some form of redstone circuitry wizardry could help me here. Anyone else know of anything I could try?

Nope! Still not a clue.

Mine is much simpler - array feeds into an MFE along with a small solar array, then through an LV Transformer. Output of this goes to furnace, macerator, etc and a quarry. I've done a quick video of it's behaviour. MFE stays at 600K EU constantly, so anything that is used out of it is being constantly topped up by the generator array it seems, hence the cycling on/off.

I've no idea where it's going wrong for me then. I've tried to follow as much as your design from your picture, including bypassing the MFE too, but power is still being drawn from the MFE first, and then just topped up straight away by the generators, and still doing the annoying on/off cycle on 6 of them at the same time, no matter what way I wire them up. It might just be down to other aspects of your system?

I'd tried having each line of generators feeding into a different side of the MFE, but the behaviour is identical no matter which way I wire it. I suppose I can just encase the system in a few layers of stone so I don't hear it every time I enter my house, but I just wondered if I could come up with some system that was compact, efficient and not too offensive on my ears, that would intelligently draw from my generators as and when more were needed If I bypass the MFE and link the power directly to my low voltage line, the generators still flicker on/off, but it's in a random pattern, and it makes SO much less noise. Going to the MFE though, 6 of the generators all cycle on/off together, and that's what makes all the noise.

I'd tried painting them so that the wiring was an 'S' shape on the top of the array, as opposed to junctions everywhere, but the behaviour is still the same :(

Hi guys... I've set up a small array of geothermal generators feeding into an MFE. They're all sat together in a 3x3 square, and have a similar 3x3 array of cables atop them to feed into the MFE. The system is currently generating more power than is being drawn from the MFE, and as a result the majority of the generators are cycling on and off repeatedly in order to top up the few EU used from the MFE. Is there any way for me to rearrange the system so that it just uses as many generators as it needs, or am I stuck listening to 8 of them cycling on/off a few times each second?