Talk:Energy Collector/@comment-142.58.94.179-20120919204507

I don't know if this has been discussed before but it should be noted that the best way to make ECM (i did some math) is to start out with 6 mark 1 collectors, or 2 mark 2's and thne downgrade them to mark 1's afterwards (slightly faster) and then stack them all around a progressively higher grade relay until you reach mark 3. at mark 3 it takes just under 3.9 hours to make up all the EMC cost of ther 6 mark 1 collectors and 1 mark 3 relay. To put that into persepctive this page illustrates that it takes 5 hours to make up the cost of 1 mark 3, and it will generate less then half of the energy as what i described. also, the setup i proposed has further benifits: you have the 10 million storage capacity, faster charging of kleinstars, and 15 light eminating from it to your collectors so they get sunlight equiverlant light all the time. Finally the construct can be faily easily adapted into the condenser setup, while not as efficient, it is more convenient, and by the time you have enough resources to make the condenser star (5 mark 3 relays connected to all of the faces fo a condenser except the top face, each relay having as many collectors connected to their faces as is possible, 13 i think) you realy don't care as much about effieiency.