People using battery boxes, wire, and multiple solars

[Weylin]

Just FYI...

THIS is overkill:

This, from as far as I've tested, running as fast as possible, and through the night, works just fine:

This has just been bugging the hell out of me lately... It's just not necessary unless you're running an electric furnace for a long period of time. This other stuff? They use next to no energy at all, they'll run straight through the night without hardly making even a dent in their internal battery, not to mention the invisible one that solar panels have.

[DanielJin]

Could I just ask what is the block? I am not very familiar with the texture pack.

[Weylin]

The block on the left is a battery box, and the one on the right is a retriever.

[DanielJin]

Right, that's a good thing to know. Don't need much energy to run redpower machines unless it's working constantly.

But what about frame motors/pumps/sorting machines?

[Weylin]

I've managed to run a sorting machine non-stop with nothing more than a solar on top, ran for several hours and never had any problems.

As for frame motors and pumps, I have not tested those.

[Beer]

I've managed to run a sorting machine non-stop with nothing more than a solar on top, ran for several hours and never had any problems.

As for frame motors and pumps, I have not tested those.

Pumps are a decent drain because in most cases they're working for long periods of time. I've had one drain a couple of batbox's with 8 solars attached, but it was also running for many minecraft days draining a lava ravine.

[warpspeed10]

Frame motors use energy in proportion to the number of frames they move.