Tutorial/High Power Condenser Plan

The Why:

 * I have often built the PowerFlower setup on Servers and on SSP once I am far enough along in EE, and while this is rewarding and provides a good amount of EMC and a stable income I am often want for something more powerful, more flashy and easier to Minipulate.


 * I have found a few builds over time where people set up several PowerFlowers and link them together, while this suits the 'more powerful' situation it dosn't seem to have the wanted 'wow' factor. Drawing Inspiration from The Large Hadron Collider I decided to build a large ring with PowerFlowers all allong its length, this worked perfectly, after multipul offline tests I have just finished building it in SMP. it worked a charm.


 * The solution had been found.

Building Matirels
You will need;

RedPower Tubes

RedPower Solar pannels

BatBoxes (Redpower)

Filters/Transposers/Requesters (or other RedPower item pumps)

A minimum of Five Energy Condensers (I would Suggest Six or Seven)

Antimatter Relay's for all Energy condenser's (Four Per Condenser, Plus one for the 'Jumpstart')

Energy Collecters for all the Relay's (I would suggest MK2 or 3)

One Dark Matter

One Aeternalis fuel

One Mobius fuel

One Alchemical Coal

One Coal

One Charcoal or Redstone dust (with Six condenser's)

One Diamond block or object of equel EMC value (with Seven Condensers)

A timer for each Filter/transposer/requester

Somewhere to build! I would Suggest on a difficult to acess hilltop or somewhere that anyone without a SWRG couldn't get to.

A large amount of Reinforced stone and Reinforced glass is also advised but not needed.

How to start:
Start out by Laying down a large Square or Rectangle, two or three high, then on the side you wish to enter/exit from, put a small ledge inwards, (about four by four) this is your 'outer limit' and 'acess platform'. if you have Reinforced stone, use it for this. now we start building our Ring.

Tips;
Make your squar/rectangle atleast 34 by 20, this allows for more room and menouverability

turn off your flight systems/power items and try and reach your starting shape from the ground, if its easy to reach/see, move it, this is a very valuable bit of kit.

The Base Ring.
You build your Ring backwards, the chest you acess at the end of the ring first. Place this chest right next to your 'acess platform' a little way in, one from the furthest in block. takeing your Redstone Pipe you build a ring out of it, every so often putting a Energy condenser, between each condenser place your Item Pump, Make sure your item Pump is atleast two away from the condenser (for the powerFlower). also makesure to keep it two blocks away from your outer limit at all times (now you see why it had to be so big?)

Tips;

leave a large space in the middle, it'll help later.

Doubble Check your spaceing, nothing is worse than finding out your one block off and haveing to re-arange your entire setup

build it one or two blocks off the ground.

Powering the Item Pumps;
At each of the Item Pumps Place one Batbox, this will be our Power store for night, then build a platform out under it (shift click on to the underside of the Batbox). place about half a dozen solar pannel's on it, you may connect them with Blue Alloy wire, however this isn't needed, just place them edge to edge. Repeat this on each Item Pump. We now have Power.

Tips;

If you Left a Large space, Fill it with solar pannels, then link all of them to all the BatBoxes with wire, 

If you built underground, you can use Thermopiles.

Leave a Space around all your Condenser's (For the Power Flower).

Prepping the PowerFlowers;
Use the Relay's and the Collecters to build some PowerFlower's around each Condenser, DO NOT Put Anything So Its Linked to the pipes which Pipe Items IN TO the condenser, the items will be pumped in to the collecters. however you can put them on the side where they are drawn from (the redpower items take priority over EE) you should end up with a Flat PowerFlower, so one side you can see all the Relay's and the chest, the other should be a cone with the pipe comeing out.

Tips;

Remember the PowerFlower's need Light.

Don't put them over Solar Pannel's these need light as well.

if you left space under them you can put four Relay's rather than just three.

Walls;
We now have Enough EE in one place to Warrent a wall, build it atleast one higher than the top of the power Flowers, I would Suggest Two or more. if you have Reinforced Stone, Use this now, it'll deter most greifers on sight. I also Floor it in Reinforced stone.

Timers;
Useing the Timers we can make the Item Pumps pull our EMC dence items around the ring without our interaction, Set the timers as you see fit, Each individual set up will have its own time requirements acording to pipe length, Energy Collecter's used, where the Filter is, and how meany Condenser's are infront and behind.

What goes where;
In to your first Energy condenser (the one with nothing going in to it) Place your Coal (or Charcoal if you are useing six condensers), then in to the next, Alchemical coal (Or Coal), after that comes Mobius fuel (Or the Alchemical Coal). Then Aeternalis fuel (Or Mobius) in our Fifth condenser comes our DarkMatter, the final product. however if we are useing Six this is Aeternalis fuel, then Dark matter. if we are useing seven the Aeternals fuel is pumped in to the Sixth chest which makes Diamond blocks, then these are Pumped in to the Dark Matter chest.

Roof;
Now we roof it all over and seal off the Observation/acess chamber, I use Reinforced glass so i can see whats happening, leave only one hole, the way to acess the dark matter.

How it works;
Now for those who are curious as to how this works here's how, I'll be refrencing the Seven Condenser setup;

in our first powerflower it Makes Charcoal, Nothing is burnt, its just pure sunlight EMC, its such a low EMC object that its made very fast, and is therefor abundant, as its pumped through to make Coal, this is more emc dense, taking four charcoal to make one coal, however we also have Sunlight EMC being pumped in so we have yet more EMC being added, this allows us to have More EMC being pumped out, than is being pumped in. this continues round the entire ring till we get to dark matter and Diamond blocks. the EMC is now quite abundant so we are making darkmatter at the same speed as one Powerflower + The EMC of a Diamond block every time its made+Aeternalis fuel when its pumped in+Mobius fuel as its made+Alchemical coal+Coal+Charcoal. now your about to ask why not jus thave them all make Dark Matter? because then we simply have several PowerFlowers all pumping Dark Matter round, Making the entire set up pointless.