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I am making golden chipsets for some automation and logistics pipes. I put 8 lasers near the table and gave them each 4 mj/t using boosted electrical engines attached directly to the lasers.
Its working, but very slowly. I checked to make sure all the engines have power from my solars and redstone, yup, they do. I have a feeling this is not a good setup, can someone help me make this this a bit faster? I thought 8 lasers would be more than fine.
A golden chipset needs 40,000 MJ. It isn't your setup, it just takes a while. All you can really do is try and get more power to them and get more lasers. The assembly table should have a way to see the MJ/t it is getting.
I see its moving between 0 and 10.49 mj/t. I think that is because the engines send power each stroke, not constantly. I may try using pipes between the lasers and the engine.
Edit: Still open to suggestions, and info on how long it will take with various setups.
Interesting idea, making redstone energy cells will require TE machines though. More underground room building I guess. My current buffer was an MFE, but storing the power as MJ's seems more efficient. Anyone know the max input per laser? That way I can limit the output of the cell properly.
Should be 4mj/t per laser, though judging by the laser color on a redstone cell it's closer to 3mj/t. The color will indicate the efficiency - red, yellow, green, blue in ascending order. Once a redstone cell hits the 24MJ/t mark, all 8 lasers will go blue, so there might be some rounding down there somewhere for the visual - to be safe I'd just let it sit at 32.
I had mixed results testing your setup. Directly connected the electricals overheated (sputtering the lasers). Using TE conduit they wouldn't push the lasers past red, even though they were claiming 4MJ/t with upgrades. Adding a 9th non-upgraded electrical provided enough power to turn the lasers blue. 8 magmatics at the same output (4mj/t) pushed the lasers blue no problem. Long / short - I avoid electrics like the plague. Something as beefy as a laser array deserves to run on its native energy net.
Generally by the time you are looking at deploying lasers, you should have decent BC production. Magmatics (in your scenario you would want 8), combustions, or preferably industrial steams on a boiler. 144MJ/t from a 36HP is generally enough to run a modest base. You might look into more if you start using the advanced bee machines, though