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Welcome to FTB Wiki's Guide to Immersive Engineering Wiring.

This guide was written as of Immersive Engineering v4.2.4-134. There have been only a few changes to the mechanics over the years.

Immersive Engineering wiring is meant to look and feel like AC electrical systems. Playing with this mod is a fun way to learn an approximation of how real-world powerlines work, and their working parts can be appreciated from a safe distance.

Basics

Your factory has machines that do cool things. They double ores, grow food, and even mine for you. Everything needs to be supplied with energy.

Equipment

The most essential elements of the energy-net are connectors and wires. Connectors hook machines into the energy-net, and wires bus energy around to all the connectors. Connectors can only fit one wire at a time, so relays are used as nodes between machines. Relays can support multiple wires, but they can't connect machines into the net.

Additional elements include capacitors, transformers, and breakers.

Voltage

Transforming voltages

Equipment with different voltage ratings can't mix—Wires only hooks up to same-voltage connectors.

We've got two massive devices, called the Transformer and her big-sister upgrade the HV Transformer. The idea is to use them anywhere a lower-voltage power line has to connect with a higher-voltage power line.

This guide will let you in on a secret: Immersive capacitors have these built in.

They're cheaper. They have the bonus of expanding your storage. And yes, they're safe too.

How to cause damage

The newbie electrician might imagine that when things go wrong, metre-long electrical arcs fire off and expensive machinery explodes, or maybe the factory floor catches fire. Electricity can be powerful, so the idea of overworking a power system can be scary. Immersive Engineering is generously lenient. Wires can melt, but rest assured: Connectors and machines will never be damaged.

Here are the basic points:

Connectors are grid bottlenecks, and wires are rated to carry 8× as much power as connectors do. That means you have to have more than 8 supply drawing power from 9 or more high-rate power supplies. IF there's a section where all that power passes through a single wire, then that wire melts.

Here are some cases where a power system can be damaged:

• 23 triple–Water Wheel]s delivering power through a single LV wire to 9 machines that are drawing full power
• 33 Thermoelectric Generators, all using Gelid Cryotheum and Blazing Pyrotheum, delivering power through a single LV wire to 9 machines that are drawing full power
• 9 Diesel Generators delivering power through a single HV wire to 9 machines that are drawing full power
• 2 HV supply connectors transforming down to MV.

Appendices

A. Ratings

Max transfer rates (Flux/tick)

Apparatus	LV	MV	HV
Wires	2048	8192	32,768
Relays	2048	8192	32,768
Connectors	256	1024	4096
Capacitors	256	1024	4096
Kinetic Dynamo	256 (LV)
Thermoelectric Generator	256 (LV)
Diesel Generator	4096 (HV)

Max consumption rates (Flux/tick)

Machine	Power consumption
Arc Furnace	512–6144
Assembler	256
Automated Workbench	128
Blast Furnace Preheater	256
Bottling Machine	256
Crusher	256
Distillation TowerIEP	683
Excavator	4096
External Heater	8–32
Fermenter	640
Fluid Pump	640
Industrial Squeezer	640
Metal Press	20
Mixer	?
PumpjackIEP	1024
Refinery	80
Sawmill	100

B. Glossary

Energy

Capacity to do work. This is how "full" your capacitors get. the cost of completing tasks (like smelting ingots). Immersive Engineering uses the Forge Energy (FE) system, here measured in Immersive Flux (IF), but machines also accept the functionally equivalent Redstone Flux (RF) system. Non-Minecrafters use joules (J) or foot-pounds (ft⋅lb_f) as a unit.

Power

Energy transfered (or work done) over time. This is how fast machines generate or use energy, or how fast connectors & wires transfer it. Frequently measured in Flux/tick. Real unit is watts (W) or joules-per-second (J/s).

Voltage

A meta-concept within the mod. Wiring devices are rated as low-voltage (LV), medium-voltage (MV), or high-voltage (HV) to indicate their power transfer limit.

C. Wiki index

LV Capacitor	LV Wire Coil	LV Wire Connector	LV Wire Relay	Insulated LV Wire Coil
MV Capacitor	MV Wire Coil	MV Wire Connector	MV Wire Relay	Insulated MV Wire Coil
HV Capacitor	HV Wire Coil	HV Wire Connector	HV Wire Relay
Breaker Switch· Creative Capacitor· Current Transformer· Feedthrough Insulator· Redstone Breaker· Transformer ( HV Transformer)

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Source: https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Wiring_Guide_(Immersive_Engineering)

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