Tutorial/Petaled Power Flower

This is the Power Flower configuration known as a "Petaled Power Flower" and is well suited for large-scale, expandable setup. It is comprised of an EMC generation structure (producing diamonds) in a flower-petal configuration tying into a central "stalk" or target point. As your resources demand/allow you can add more "petals" to the configuration to increase its output.

Basic Idea
The basic idea behind a Power Flower is to use Energy Collectors (which turn light into EMC) to produce Diamonds (or another suitable-value EMC item) in an Energy Condenser. A Power Flower is a complex arrangement of these devices (Collectors, Relays, and Condensers) that is both expandable and will produce diamonds at optimal or close-to-optimal rates.

Note
Please be aware that this Power Flower can be constructed with only one Collector and Condensor, only one "petal" or even just basic MK1 Collectors and Condensers. While such a configuration would not technically comprise a true Power Flower, you might need to hobble along the design at first until you can afford to make all the upgraded components.

Required Materials
The following is a list of materials used in the construction of a Power Flower. Please note that some of these materials and machines can be replaced with alternate versions (e.g. Filters in place of Retriever/Retrievulators) or even upgraded versions of themselves (e.g. MK II and MK III instead of MK I). 12x Energy Collector (upgrade to MK2 or MK3)

4 x Antimatter Relay (upgrade to MK2 or MK3)

1 x Energy Condenser

1 x Diamond (borrow one from a friend, or mine one deep in the earth)

8 x Redstone Tube

1 x Filter

1 x Cover

1 x Chest

Step 1: Planning Space Requirements
A standard "petal" on a flower is a comprised of each of the listed materials above and will occupy roughly a 3x3x3 cube depending on your final implementation. If you're planning on needing a lot of "petals" on your Power Flower it is advisable to bury the Power Flower near bedrock level so you can expand upward (and even horizontally) without running into things you've already built and aren't keen on destroying.

With MK1 and MK2 collectors you will need Glowstone anyways, so burying underground is not an issue. MK3 Collectors produce enough of their own light to run efficiently without glowstone.

Step 2: Layer 1
The first layer of the each petal of your Power Flower is comprised of your Condenser (target set to Diamond), your 4 Anti-matter Relays and 8 Energy Collectors.

While your Energy Condenser is exposed, make sure to set its "target" to a single diamond.



Step 3: Layer 2
In Layer 2 you will place a Filter on top of the Energy Condenser (so diamonds can be sucked out) and place additional Energy Collectors on top of the exposed faces of the Anti-Matter Relays.



Step 4: Layer 3
To finish off this petal of the Power Flower we just need to hook up the Redstone Tube to the output face of the Filter, and place a cover on the surface of the adjacent Energy Collector so that diamonds won't be re-routed down into it (as it would be the closest target desitanation for the Pneumatic Tube routing aglorithm).



Step 5: Petal Complete
Congratulations! Your most basic Power Flower is essentially complete. To make a bigger Power Flower, contstruct more of these Petals all over and connect the Redstone Tubes to make a complete network of Petals. In the next step we will tie the tubes into a chest to complete the basic Power Flower.

Step 6: Finishing the Power Flower
Now that we have a petal complete we just need to tie it in to a central chest that will fill up with all our diamonds that the Petals are producing.

To do this, keep routing Redstone Tube until you are a safe distance away (don't want to interfere with other Petals) and then connect the Redstone Tubes into the top of a chest.

Connect up some Red Alloy Wire, Jacketed Red Wire, and a Timer to send a redstone signal through to tube network to all connected Filters (thus triggering them to pull out the diamonds you've generated).



Step 7: Done!
At this point you have a basic, Single Petal Power Flower. Stand back and watch the Diamond come flowing in! (Although if you're using all MK1 machines be prepared to wait).

Step 8: Glowstone Optimization
If you aren't using MK3 Collectors you should go back and cap off all the tops of visible Collectors with a block of Glowstone. This will also let you bury the power flower underground.



Step 9: Stepping up your game
Once you can afford to, you should immediately upgrade your Collectors and Relays as high as they will go (MK3). You can also start to construct additional petals and tie them in to your Power Flower.

Further expansion might require piping into a Condenser with a Red Matter target to avoid overflowing your central diamond chest. You'll figure out more fun stuff as you go.

Have fun!