Solar panel!? Not working for me??

[goen]

Dear all,

I try to build solar flower in technic pack 5.0.5 and when I finish build it there;s no electricity at all.What happen?

[SimpleGuy]

Your problem sounds like this to me:

"I got a math problem that I can't solve. What's the answer to it?"

So, with the lack of information at hand, I'll give you an answer:

Not much is happening.

[Beer]

Question 1: Which solar panels are you using? Blutricity ones via Redpower, or the IC2 ones.

Question 2: Are you using Redpower solar panels with IC2 circuitry (that won't work)

Assuming we're talking straight IC2, do you have the following:

1. Unobstructed daylight

2. Either:

a. Batteries in your solar panel(s)

b. Wires leading from your solar flower to a batbox, MFE, or MFS?

3. Are you using long copper wire? If so, you might be experiencing severe energy degradation. This can be solved by moving your storage closer to the flower, or using glass fiber cables (expensive to make).

Also, Technic has been updated to Technic 6 (for some time now), so good luck using backdated crap.

[Jay?]

Im going to be nice and ask questions until you realize what you did wrong.

Did you plug the power cables into an input face of your batbox?

[goen]

@ Simple guys : Thanks

@ Beer: I use The panel that got to craft with generator + 3glass+3coal dust and 1 electic circuit I guess. Yeah.

1. I build it on top of the mountain so no obstacle.

2. No batteries in my panel and I connect it to MFE.

3. Yes, it's a long one but when I check it with my EC meter at the solar panel and the copper wire around it. It's shown no EU at all but when I pluck RE batterry in to it, it charged!!!

@Jay? Well, which side is input face?

Anyway tomorrow is Saturday. So I think I gonna get time to get a look into it more clearly.

Thanks for the help so far.

[Jay?]

3. Yes, it's a long one but when I check it with my EC meter at the solar panel and the copper wire around it. It's shown no EU at all but when I pluck RE batterry in to it, it charged!!!

@Jay? Well, which side is input face?

Okay, there are two possibilities. The first is that you have more than five blocks of copper wire between your solar panels, and the storage unit. The other is that you have the wire plugged into the face with the dot. That side is for outgoing power ONLY. Plug the cables into another side, and it should recieve power.

[goen]

Okay I'll check when I get home.

[Neowulf]

No point in using anything but tin cable for going from renewable generators (solar, wind, water) to your first energy storage. Solar and water will never give more than 1 or 2 EU/t, and wind generators conveniently break themselves if their generation ever goes above 5EU/t (can only be reached in a thunderstorm if the windmill is above height 80).

[goen]

Okay seem like I got mess up with the wire and put the wire adjacent to each other and cause the electricity to halt or something like that now I fixed it and it work now. Thank you very much.

[Beer]

No point in using anything but tin cable for going from renewable generators (solar, wind, water) to your first energy storage. Solar and water will never give more than 1 or 2 EU/t, and wind generators conveniently break themselves if their generation ever goes above 5EU/t (can only be reached in a thunderstorm if the windmill is above height 80).

It never occured to me to use tin wiring at all, but what you say makes a ton of sense. So, thank you!

I swear I learn something new about this stuff every day.

[Jay?]

It never occured to me to use tin wiring at all, but what you say makes a ton of sense. So, thank you!

I swear I learn something new about this stuff every day.

I actually think tin is more valuable than copper, since you need it for batteries in generators. I use copper, because god damn it's EVERYWHERE.

[Neowulf]

I usually dig my way down to the bedrock and start clearing out a large area, so tin is pretty common for me while copper is rare.

Of course once you get either a quarry or an IC2 miner going you don't really have to worry about either.

[Wudzerivovneach]

There's also the extreme distance that tin can travel to a BatBox with absolutely no loss, equal to the glass fiber cable without expending massive amounts of diamond. You could have a non-stop 32 EU/t for every moment of sunlight. You could probably have 32 EU/t all night as well, by filling up enough of the reserve with excess to be used through the night. Then you could use multiple BatBoxes, run their output into the higher-tier storage units, and have non-stop MV or HV, or even run multiple of those HV outputs into an inverted HV transformer and have EV. And a mess of solar panels sitting around somewhere making building an actual structure in the area impossible, and on top of that, a massive headache trying to work around the loss system to get it to travel far enough to even reach your base from the central collection point somewhere in the middle of the aforementioned mess with as little loss as possible, most likely.

[Beer]

I've usually got quite a bit of tin and copper lying around in addition to iron. So I'm not terribly concerned about resources. I have been playing the infq seed and uncovered many resource rich tunnels that I don't even need right now. I also usually skip the batbox and go right for the MFE. Between EE and Thaumcraft I can usually squeak out enough diamonds to get that going.

But the tin cable thing just really makes a whole lot of sense. I should've done the math but I'm lazy and just want to horde energy for the eventual apocalypse of flying second life penises.