Engines not working...

[hungrymoose]

Ah, that explains a lot.

What's your recommendation on cheap engine energy setups?

[cerevox]

Magmatic engine. They take in lava, put out decent energy and don't explode ever. Once you hit the nether, lava is free and if you can get a tessearct and pump in the nether you can draw infinite power easily. From bottom tier to top tier, magmatic engines can handle it.

[hungrymoose]

Ah cool, thanks Cerevox!

Also any youtube tutorials i should look at in particular for the magnetic engines?

[cerevox]

Tutorials really are not needed for simple setups. Put lava in magmatic engine. Magmatic engine points into wooden conductive pipe. Wooden conductive pipe is connected to regular(stone/gold) conductive pipe(gold is much much much better than all alternatives). Regular conductive pipe goes to machine needing power. Machine gets power. Yay!

If you want fancy you can replace all conductive pipes, both wood and regular, with redstone conduits. Or add a liquiduct/pump set up to pump lava into the magmatic engine instead of carrying it in buckets.

Also, keep in mind that since magmatic engine is a TE engine it does not need a redstone input, although you can change that if you want in its internal gui.

Lovely picture showing a magmatic engine with a bucket of lava sitting next to it, a wooden conductive pipe, gold conductive pipe and then pulverizer grinding up yummy ores.

[hungrymoose]

Tutorials really are not needed for simple setups. Put lava in magmatic engine. Magmatic engine points into wooden conductive pipe. Wooden conductive pipe is connected to regular(stone/gold) conductive pipe(gold is much much much better than all alternatives). Regular conductive pipe goes to machine needing power. Machine gets power. Yay!

If you want fancy you can replace all conductive pipes, both wood and regular, with redstone conduits. Or add a liquiduct/pump set up to pump lava into the magmatic engine instead of carrying it in buckets.

Also, keep in mind that since magmatic engine is a TE engine it does not need a redstone input, although you can change that if you want in its internal gui.

Lovely picture showing a magmatic engine with a bucket of lava sitting next to it, a wooden conductive pipe, gold conductive pipe and then pulverizer grinding up yummy ores.

AHHhhhha! thanks !! So much easier to understand with that picture! Visual learning :p