Talk:Tutorial/Mass-Fab Macerator/@comment-115.64.145.114-20121128030954/@comment-454133-20121128073125

Previously my answer would have been to keep each MFM separate except for the HV Solar Arrays powering them. Lately I've been working with redstone MFMs, and they do quite well on their own too (2 share the redstone condenser, but they're otherwise separate factories feeding their overflow to the same output). I've been recommending that people build many redstone MFMs instead of trying to overclock one MFM above 12 upgrades.

But in any case, you didn't want to combine them all into using the same condenser because it's SO easy to overload the blaze rod condenser that way. There's a real, practical limit to how fast it can consume materials, and it would get filled with powders and stop working very easily.

Lately however, I've been tinkering with the Gem of Eternal Destiny, which drastically improves the consumption rate of a condenser. This allows at least 10x as many macerators to feed their powders into a single condenser without overloading it, so you could have 10 macerators or more in a single MFM super-factory. This greatly reduces materials.

I still need to do more testing, though.