Infinite Solar Panels!

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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-17 01:43

Finally! I have finished my Solar Panel Production Line.

Problem is that it currently relies on a hell of a glitchy Additional Buildcraft Pipes mod that has Teleport Pipes for easier pipelines instead of complicated long pipe lines that it would normally take. In the spoilers are screenshots.

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Two of my 8 Dupers

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Final Product (Solar Panel)

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One of the Subproduction Rooms

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Uhoh, a bit of an overflow issue. Time to adjust some of my restriction flows

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Main Chest Room

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Conversion Room (Lots of pipes)

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Basically, with Equivalent Exchange, you can only dupe certain items. Mostly very base Raw Materials.

So what I do first is have Energy Condensor's mass produce the following items:

1) Sticky Reisen -> Process
2) Redstone -> Send to 2 random chests
3) Furnaces -> Send to chest
4) Glass -> Send to chest
5) Coal -> Process
6) Iron -> Process Half, send other half to chest
7) Tin -> Send to chest
8) Copper -> Send to chest

The Reisen gets converted to Rubber and moved to chests, Half the Iron gets refined into Refined Iron where it will then go into 2 different random chests and the other Half is pumped into a chest for production of Iron Furnaces. Coal gets converted to Coal Dust and moved to chests

The Furnaces and Iron are then pumped into an auto crafting table to make Iron Furnaces.

The Rubber then gets pumped into an auto crafting table with copper to create copper wires which then gets pumped into 2 chests.

The Tin, Redstone, and Copper Wire gets pumped into a crafting table to produce RE Batteries

The Iron Furnaces, RE Batteries, and Refined Iron gets pumped into a crafting table to create Generators

The other chest of Refined Iron, Redstone, and Copper Wire is used to create Circuits

The Circuits, Coal Dust, Glass, and Generators get pumped into an auto crafting table to produce Solar Panels!

In Between all of that, I use item distribution pipes which reroute items back to chests to help reduce overflow from overproduction of certain items that aren't needed as much.

It's a long process but It's worth it as now I can go to bed and hopefully wake up with a chest full of Solar Panels to power my teleporters!
Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-08-17 04:05

You're going to need a LOT of solar arrays to power teleporters, its more a job for a nuclear reactor. Though I really wish the teleporters were not so costly x_X ALL THE EU's D: (which is why I'm still no where near that stage).
Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-17 07:03

Quote from Sapphireoath;935773:
You're going to need a LOT of solar arrays to power teleporters, its more a job for a nuclear reactor. Though I really wish the teleporters were not so costly x_X ALL THE EU's D: (which is why I'm still no where near that stage).

Exactly. However, that's why this mod exists: http://thetekkit.wikia.com/wiki/MV_Solar_Array

Which, is conviently in the Technic Pack :D

So I can have my power without the "violent explosions"

This facility is going to be used to eventually mass produce HV Solar Arrays. I can put 4 of those next to my teleporter and generate a whooping 512 Eu/t

"Note that a Mk V Nuclear Reactor completely full of uranium produces 2400 EU/t, and will explode in 7 seconds. Five HV Solar Arrays will produce more power (2560 EU/t) with no risk."

In fact, running my facility while I slept for 3-4 hours generated almost enough for 1 HV solar array.

I just need to figure out a better way to clean off excess items that keep piling up, causing massive lag :/

Might need to put item packagers in front of my chests.
Sapphireoath wrote on 2012-08-17 07:10

Piling up as in overflowing from the pipes? Try an obsidian pipe, suck up all the items on the ground and store or sort them back into the system.

Edit: Didn't know about those arrays. Guess I'll work towards those for teleporters :)
Though, right now I'm concentrating on getting more diamonds for EE stuff (namely, items that need Dark Matter/also upgrading my Klein Star). Went afk at my Anti-Matter Relay for quite a few hours (like, 3+. Went to see TDKR lol) When I got back, my Klein Star had enough EMC for almost half a stack or more of Diamonds. Worth the Diamonds that went into its current setup :D
Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-17 07:57

Problem with the obsidian pipes is I need to add even more redstone engines otherwise, they connect to my blasted pipes.

The insertion pipe would have been a better solution but I guess that pipe isn't available in the technic pack that I posses :(

EDIT: The Advanced Insertion Pipe might do the trick. Let me test that out...

YEP! Advanced Insertion Pipes did the trick. The items whet into the table until it was full then it got diverted to my teleport pipe where I could then attach a diamond pipe and redistrubte them on a different spot so as not to log up with pipes.

God I love these little guys. I even name my frequencies for easier management. That should solve my overflow problems :D
Lolicon wrote on 2012-08-17 09:38

Quote from Sapphireoath;935773:
You're going to need a LOT of solar arrays to power teleporters, its more a job for a nuclear reactor. Though I really wish the teleporters were not so costly x_X ALL THE EU's D: (which is why I'm still no where near that stage).

GOTTA GO GREEN RIGHT?
Chiyuri wrote on 2012-08-17 14:01

Now king, build this:
Make a central machine that can make an infinite amount of electricity.
Have that machine create all the materials it need to duplicated smaller version of itself and with the use of builders, make it self-spreading in all direction.

For example, the central peice is unique.
then you got a blue print maker for the first type of duplication, which is made to duplicate itself forward and duplicate the second time to the right of itself.
The second type can only duplicate forward.

This would make a machien that grow in a Diamond shape, covering the world in it's machinery.
Add a few testa coils in it and you now got a life killing self-replicating, self-spreading Machine.
Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-17 15:30

That sounds terrible :(

I think I'll pass on that and go with something a tad bit more practical. If I wanted to do that I suppose I could make self replicating melee turtles using ComputerCraft which I have yet to toy around with yet.