Talk:Quarry/@comment-81.109.43.44-20120814054736/@comment-87.115.176.143-20120823110053

A quarry requires a LOT of power. A batbox is perfectly suitable really provided you have an adequate source of power flowing into it from somewhere.

In my case, I have 11 LV solar arrays outside between two buildings which flow into a couple of MFEs. The power from those MFEs is transferred into one of the buildings via an LV transformer and batbox and powers my Electric Furnace, Macerator and a couple of other miscellanious bits of equipment. The macerator and furnace are almost always on because they are automating ore production. The same fiber cable then connects out through the back wall to an energy link and my quarry.

Anyway, basically 11 LV arrays seems to do the following:

- Provide enough energy in the day to power a quarry, compressor/extractor, and a 4x overclocked furnace and macerator which still gaining EU at a rate of about 700/s.

- At night the main MFE usually drains to about 400-450k EU.

- Cost the equivalent EMC value of ~68 diamonds (6.1 each)