Galacticraft to Thermal Expansion Power?

[Haxotic]

I wish to power my thermal expansion machines using solar panels from galacticraft, is there a way to do this with the latest build?

[TonyVS]

heavy aluminum wire from glacticraft is the only thing that can extract power from a glacticraft solar panel at this time from my experience.

[Haxotic]

Dang, thank you.

[Darth Crater]

I did some testing in creative. Buildcraft wooden kinesis pipes can extract MJ from solar panels. Of course that still won't power your Thermal Expansion machines by itself. But you can run a MFR Oil/Lava Fabricator off of the MJ and feed the results into the appropriate Dynamo to get your RF.  It's a bit convoluted, but it works.

Edited March 5, 2014 by Darth Crater

[Kezr]

It works if you use (heavy?)aluminium wire to extract the power from the solar cells, and then plug the wire into a TE energy cell to charge it. From there energy conduits work as expected.

[Darth Crater]

Huh, you're right, that's much easier. The panels require Galacticraft wire, but that wire will output RF to energy cells. (It'll put it into Redstone Conduits too, but it seems to output 10-100x less for some reason.)