Electricity
The vast majority of GregTech Modern machines run on Electricity, also known as EU ("Energy Units"). Electricity and Electric machines share several common safety and behavior rules.
General concepts of EU
- EU is produced by Generators every tick.
- Electric Machines consume EU every tick while operating.
- Batteries and Battery Buffers act as EU Storage.
- Cables and Transformers transport EU between generators, storage, and machines.
Batteries and Machines store EU in an internal buffer, but all EU transportation is done using Voltage and Amperage.
- Voltage (V) is the power tier of a device, and the size of an energy "packet" which is emitted by Generators and received by Machines.
- Cables and Machines have a voltage tier, which is the maximum voltage they can safely carry or receive.
Carrying or receiving unsafe Voltages can be highly destructive.
- Tiers are referred to using a two or three letter abbreviation. In order, the full list of tiers is:
- ULV, LV, MV, HV, EV, IV, LuV, ZPM, UV, UHV, UEV, UIV, UXV, OpV, MAX
- Each successive voltage tier is 4x the voltage of the previous. (LV = 32V, MV = 128V, HV = 512V . . .)
- Transformers can be used to convert power at a voltage tier into the voltage above, or vice-versa.
- Tiers are referred to using a two or three letter abbreviation. In order, the full list of tiers is:
- Amperage (A) is how many Voltage packets are being carried at the same time in parallel.
- Voltage x Amperage results in EU/t. EU/t x Time results in Total EU.
- Blocks that emit EU will only emit EU from a single designated output side, usually marked with a large colored dot. Blocks that accept EU can accept it from any side that is not an EU Output side. Blocks that can emit multiple Amps will have a larger and more complex dot on their output side.