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[Thaxllssillyia]

Hi there! I'm currently playing the DW20 1.7 pack and currently produce about 4600 RF/t from steam boilers and photovoltaic cells. This energy is used to power a mass fabrictor by using rednet energy cables. Currently 4 rednet energy cable are attached on 4 sides of the mass fabricator, the other two sides I'm using for scrap input and UU output. Recently I discovered that there is a limit either inside the rednet energy cable or the mass fabricator input, but I think it's the former. At midday, when my photvoltaic cells produce RFat 100%, my RFstorage cells are filling, meaning that not all RFis pushed inside my mass fabricator. Is that a limit of the rednet energy cables? Are there alternative blocks to convert RF->EU? Most of the wikis saying that the max input of the mass fabrictor is 1 Mio. EU/t, which is greatly more than 4600 RF/t... Thank's for help! Thax

[dgelessus]

If Power Converters is in the pack (can't remember off the top of my head if it is) you should try using that. It can output up to 8192 EU/t, which is the highest rate supported by standard IC2 cables.

[Thaxllssillyia]

Unfortunatly, Power Converters is not part of DW20 1.7. I don't know if I can add it without getting conflicts.

[timrem]

A trick I used in 1.6, which should still work in 1.7 (though I haven't tested it), was to exploit the fact that Modular Powersuits can use both types of energy. I made three Power Armour Gloves, each with a maxed-out top-tier battery. These would be charged using RF (in 1.6 I used an Energetic Infuser, but I believe in 1.7 you'd be better off with an EnderIO capacitor bank or Extra Utilities Energy Transfer Node), and when one is full, be pulled out and set to discharge into an MFSU. Then when that Glove was empty, it would be sent back to recharge again, and another full glove would enter the MFSU.

[ZL123]

A trick I used in 1.6, which should still work in 1.7 (though I haven't tested it), was to exploit the fact that Modular Powersuits can use both types of energy. I made three Power Armour Gloves, each with a maxed-out top-tier battery. These would be charged using RF (in 1.6 I used an Energetic Infuser, but I believe in 1.7 you'd be better off with an EnderIO capacitor bank or Extra Utilities Energy Transfer Node), and when one is full, be pulled out and set to discharge into an MFSU. Then when that Glove was empty, it would be sent back to recharge again, and another full glove would enter the MFSU.

Hah, that's a good idea.

[Thaxllssillyia]

Okay, now I solved it with MFSUs. I have two of them with five rednet Energy Cables attached each. Each Rednet Energy Cable is able to transfer 1000 RF7t, which is equvalent to 250 EU/t. The maximum output of the MFSU is 2048 EU/t, so with the five attached cables it is able to transfer all the energy. The MFSUs are connected with Glass Fibre Cables, able to transport at least 4096 EU/t, and are connected to the Mass Fabricator.