MFSU --> MV Transformer Help

[roodtooder]

Alright I have scoured the internet for a solution and nothing has come to light.

My issue:

I recently built a nuclear reactor... Everything is working great and it is feeding energy to my MFSU. WONDERFUL. Next objective was to convert the energy down into LV which obviously first you must convert to MV. WELL I spent hours with different wire configurations and tested all kinds of theories, and it plain wouldn't work.

Now obviously, I open up the mfsu gui and it shows it is gaining energy. But then I hit the wires leading from the dot side of the mfsu to my MV transformer with a EU reader, it says there is no energy flowing.

My brain hurts and I would just like a solution.

P.S. I have a MFE converting to LV perfectly fine. The issue is MFSU to MV to LV

And yes, I am aware that the single dot from the mfsu goes to the 3 dots on the MVTrans.

EDIT: Alright well I built an MFE to substitute for the nuclear power and now THIS isn't emitting power either..... -.-

[gotyaoi]

Simple question: is there anything on the other side of your transformer? If so, does it have any work to do? If there's nothing using power, well, no power will be flowing through the system.

[Torezu]

It should be...

MFSU -> glass fiber or HV cable (optional) -> MV trans (NOT RS) -> gold or better cable (optional) -> LV trans (also NOT RS) -> copper or better cable (optional) -> machines.

If you replace any of those components with anything else, more than likely the components will melt/explode. Also, as gotyaoi said, if you don't have machines or anything else drawing power, power doesn't flow. Obviously, you want to insulate the cable to reduce EU losses, and of course your 3-dot transformer sides should face the higher-end cable/MFSU/transformer.

[roodtooder]

Well I have it hooked up to a rotary macerator or w/e they are called and the red lightning power thing was already full and it was up to 10000 rpm... Do i need it to be doing work for it to draw power?

[Torezu]

Well I have it hooked up to a rotary macerator or w/e they are called and the red lightning power thing was already full and it was up to 10000 rpm... Do i need it to be doing work for it to draw power?

Advanced machines should only very slowly draw power to stay up to speed/heat/pressure, and use power more quickly when actually doing work. It's also possible they don't draw any power at all after they're up to speed (they have internal power storage, so that's what you saw with the little lightning bolt - they will do work after you shut off the external power, consuming that storage). Those same advanced machines need a redstone signal to activate, and work best (or at all, though that may be a Tekkit bug) with low voltage, unless they're doing a lot (stack upon stack, fed by redstone engines) of work.

[gotyaoi]

Yeah, basically toss some stuff in there to be macerated. If the red bolt stay full, you're good. Most machines, once they fill up their internal capacitor (the red bolt), won't draw any more power. The advanced machines, if you're keeping them warmed up, draw an extremely small amount of power, so that you probably wouldn't notice any drop in your MFSU or MFE, especially if it were being recharged by nuclear power.

[Torezu]

The advanced machines, if you're keeping them warmed up, draw an extremely small amount of power...

And, since they're slower than basic machines when they're not warmed up (and the induction furnace consumes an incredible amount of power when it's cold to boot), there's good incentive to keep them hot. You can use solar cells as a load buffer if you don't feel like running generators or a nuke plant all the time, too.