Water Tower Woes (Pic of Issue)

[CorianWornen]

Okay, so I'm playing a tekkit server with my GF and we have a small issue. After much work and death, we are working on an infinite power source using a water tower. This has worked before when Tekkit 3 was released but it doesn't anymore, I'm wondering if this is due to a bug or an update. The set up is a tower: Five by five with the corners brought in, centered and raised off the ground by one is a batBox surrounded by four watermills, each with a bucket inside. I then proceed to fill the surrounding areas with water. I've only filled up two block heights with water but the first batBox isn't charging at all. This was a system I used to create infinite energy for a macerator, electric furnace, extractor, and compressor, and that's all I'm trying to get it to do now.

[bwillb]

Watermills don't automatically suck up water. You can use a deployer and tube system though.

[CorianWornen]

As stated previously though, this system did work when tekkit 3 was released, I'm wondering if this NOT working is due to a change in IC or something like that? And I have no idea how deployers or any of that work.

[bwillb]

ah you know what I was mistaken, they actually do... but the water source has to be ABOVE the water mill.

[joe5]

water mills have been known to spontaniously not function

[CorianWornen]

So do I need to fix it or not? If so can someone suggest a more reliable system?