Electromagnet or ATOMIC Electromagnet?

[Silmenume]

I'm pulling my parts together to build my fusion reactor and was confronted with an "Electromagnet" and an "Atomic Electromagnet" in the NEI screen.

 

Does it matter which one is used?  Is there any functional difference?

 

Thank you!

 

Best,

 

Jay

 

PS - I suppose its obvious but I am running 1.2.6b from a clean upgrade of 1.1.10 (whole new world)

Edited February 24, 2014 by Silmenume

[TonyVS]

I already asked this on the atomic science forums. there is a tool tip added to the later versions of atomic science. The atomic electromagnets is for particle accelerators and will not function with the regular electromagnets. and the regular electromagnets are for fusion/fission reactors etc

[Silmenume]

Thank for the heads up TonyVS.  It would have taken me a while to get around to thinking of posting on the Atomic Science forums.

 

Best,

 

Jay

[TonyVS]

another thing I discovered is when your particle accelerator derps out and goes BOOM, the atomic electromagnets do not blow up, the glass still does though..... cheaper to fix thank god

[Silmenume]

I haven't played with particle accelerator's yet, but plan to - especially with this new Tekkit release.

Good to know that they do go BOOM! and that there are recoverable parts after said BOOM!

Best,

Jay

[TonyVS]

they went boom in 1.5.2 as well but now only the glass is destroyed and you only get a fraction of it back just like before. I always keep a few stacks of each on hand