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Wiring and Batteries
Electric conduit carries typed electricity. It also has Ore Dictionary names wire, conduitElectricity, powerCable and cableElectric. It is not interchangeable with fluid pipe. Compatible face-to-face machines can conduct onward.
Distribution runs every eight game ticks. There is no voltage loss per cable block. Unloaded sections do not bridge networks or keep chunks loaded. A machine GUI usually reports its own local buffer, not every battery on the line.
| Battery | Capacity | Principal materials |
|---|---|---|
| Lead-acid | 1,000 | Lead, sulfur, water bucket, plastic |
| Nickel-hydride | 2,000 | Nickel, redstone, water bucket, plastic |
| Alkaline | 4,000 | Iron, gunpowder, zinc, plastic |
| Lithium | 8,000 | Lithium, redstone, carbon dust, plastic |
Charge travels with battery-item NBT under energy. Retain those items when moving storage; an item that merely looks like a battery is not proof its charge survived.
The array has eight battery slots. Insert batteries: the empty housing is not an energy store. It requests power at backup priority and supplies higher-priority consumers. Active loads can consume generation before the array fills. A redstone signal disables its output.
Mixed battery types are allowed; check each slot's charge display. With the load disconnected, valid generation should increase stored charge. With generation removed, a charged array should do bounded useful work. Neither test is satisfied by a decorative animation.
baseelectric:electric_switch conducts without redstone and disconnects with redstone. Check both states before hiding it. A switch is not a transformer between electricity and steam.
Minecraft 1.10.2 electrician's handbook. Continuing DrCyano's Electric Advantage. basePower | baseSteam | baseElectric | Report a problem