Talk:Pump (BC)/@comment-175.39.44.220-20120805083350/@comment-5190649-20120902171401

I think, (didn't check it!), that conductive-pipe behavior works like this:

Input, in your case, 1 combustion engine. Then, it looks at the closest receiver (like a pump) and tries to put power to it. Only if there is too much power, like in the sense that 1 pump is completely satisfied with the amount of power, but there's still left, that goes into the other pump.

Not quite sure, but might just be so. An easy solution is to just build another combustion engine, let both power 1 pump, and cross-wire the waterproof pipe so that both engines get water and lava. Do remember that (in my version, not sure whether it still works) combustion engines powering pumps automatically receive a portion of what the pump is pulling up, so, a combustion engine will automatically get water out of a water-pumping pump, lava out of a lava-pumping pump, and oil out of an oil-pumping pump.

Not sure about this either, but in my version it's like this (I think I still use the old recommended version, like for Minecraft 1.1 or so.)