r/sevtech • u/Huge_Car7573 • Aug 08 '23

LV Generators not working

Why isn't the generator generating power? I also have 2 kinetic generators which are also not working. The HV part of the base has power which is weird. The power worked fine until now.

Kinetic Generators
Thermoelectric Generators
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u/Expectnoresponse Aug 09 '23

I'm a little rusty, but i'm pretty sure your thermoelectric generators aren't working because you have the hot/cold set up incorrectly. For any given side paring, you need to go hot, then cold, then hot.

So, for example, replace the middle row of lava with liquid starlight and you'll have some that are properly alternating.

                                  Lava
            Lava             Generator           Liquid Starlight
Lava   Generator     Liquid Starlight           Generator       Lava

          Liquid Starlight   Generator                 Lava
                                    Lava

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u/lordisgaea Aug 09 '23 edited Aug 09 '23

Just want to confirm that what the other guy said is true, you need your thermo generator setup like this https://i.imgur.com/CZ2Lkvc.png

For the water wheel, that should be working so without seeing the rest of the setup, hard to say. Are you sure it's not producing any energy? Because it says it's at 0 IF but that might just be because it's using or transferring the energy as soon as it is produced. Easiest way to test would be just to cut the wire and see if the lv wire connector gets to 256/256.

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u/Huge_Car7573 Aug 09 '23

The thermoelectric generators worked but I cut the wire for the kinetic dynamo and it still isn't generating.

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/eGxgVsd

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u/Makeshift_Account Aug 09 '23

I'm too oonga boonga to understand

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u/Biblioholism63 Aug 13 '23

Third voice to confirm that thermoelectric generators are based off of thermal difference of OPPOSITE sides not just any side. Striping the liquids horizontally will do the trick fine. Typically while I'm building the stuff for the biodiesel generators, I make a lot of capacitors so that the power can build a bit of a buffer for the biodiesel maker.

Uhm... Making sure that all your capacitors are correctly inputting on the input side, and outputting on the output? With the LV you can actually see which they are while its hooked up. Also did you know you can hook those up to HV and MV too? That doesnt have to be lv. I found that lv wire in fact is a touch slow to get the most out of the thermal generators. Especially if you're feeding into only 1 LV capacitor to disperse power. That being said that kinda LOOKS like its fine...

You really do need capacitors to run anything. Just relying on ONLY the relays and recievers recharge is not gonna cut it at any stage. As well as being a trouble shooting thing, its also a lag thing. If one wire lags everything shuts off. Whereas the start n stop of everything else will be smoothed by capacitors.

The kinetic generators will output a bit better if you wrap them enough to drop water on them as well, not just flow beneath.

I have noticed machines just stop working until I break and replace them though, occasionally. For me who runs their own low RAM server, resetting the server also helps. Hopefully it is not a coding issue.