Jargen Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Hi, Would it be possible to get a load of redstone engines and connect them to conductive pipes, then shove that into a converter and then power batboxes? I have tried a test setup but i cant get any power out of the conductive pipes (I attached a mining well instead of a converter to test if there is any power). Is this actually possible or am i wasting my time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechaCrash Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 It is possible and you are wasting your time. You can get a similar amount of power with a lot less investment of effort and resources if you just build some solar panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 It is possible and you are wasting your time. You can get a similar amount of power with a lot less investment of effort and resources if you just build some solar panels. Welcome to minecraft, where the roundabout, more visually impressive method is sometimes preferred. OP, it is possible. What you have to do is line them up with each redstone engine attached to one conductive wooden pipe, around a 1x10 or so gold conductive pipe (don't use stone conductive, too much loss). At the end of the gold conductive you need a teleport pipe. Then, elsewhere, place the other conductive teleport on the BC-IC2 (i think it's called the Energy Link). This way, you can build multiple piston stacks, all going to the same IC2 power storage, without having to worry about complex wiring/piping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jargen Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Welcome to minecraft, where the roundabout, more visually impressive method is sometimes preferred. OP, it is possible. What you have to do is line them up with each redstone engine attached to one conductive wooden pipe, around a 1x10 or so gold conductive pipe (don't use stone conductive, too much loss). At the end of the gold conductive you need a teleport pipe. Then, elsewhere, place the other conductive teleport on the BC-IC2 (i think it's called the Energy Link). This way, you can build multiple piston stacks, all going to the same IC2 power storage, without having to worry about complex wiring/piping. Would what i gain from it be of any real benefit? Or would i need a massive amount for it to be of any practical use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 You would need great towers of pulsing machinery for it to be any good. But it looks damn impressive. It's probably an investment of 100 engines or more, to get anything really substantial. in fact, probably 200 or so would be about right. However, the infrastructure involved would then work for ANY engines, so when the time came that you could automate the production of coal via EE, or Fuel/biofuel vie BC/Forrestry, you could use the=ose same towers to make enormous amounts of energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grindle2000 Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Almost a hundred redstone engines will just barely run a quarry but it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jargen Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 use the=ose same towers to make enormous amounts of energy. The what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 The large banks of redstone engines. They can be easily modified to be peat fired ingines, and then suddenly they make really good amounts of energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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