Iridium Ore

2013-05-10T15:12:09Z

Bob1337:

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You can get Iridium Ore from [[UU-Matter]]. That makes Iridium Ore very very expensive and hard to get. Iridium Ore has a role in making [[Iridium Plates]].

Currently, Iridium Ore is unmineable and takes a long time to acquire. Don't try making this with 7 mysterious pink items in a recognizable symbolic form that represents Iridium; it won't work!

== Usage ==

'''Iridium Plate:'''
{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Iridium Ore|B1=Advanced Alloy|C1=Iridium Ore
|A2=Advanced Alloy|B2=Diamond|C2=Advanced Alloy
|A3=Iridium Ore|B3=Advanced Alloy|C3=Iridium Ore
|Output=Iridium Plate
}}

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EU

2013-05-01T14:34:11Z

Bob1337: Adding new info (Reactors can generate up to around 3600 EU, more with GregTech)

EU - '''Energy Unit''' is the measure of energy used by IC. It is most similar to the SI derived unit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule Joule]. EUs are 'produced' by [[generator]]s, stored by mobile units like an [[RE Battery]] or by stationary units like a [[batbox]], transmitted along [[cable]]s, and 'consumed' by ICs various machines.

EU stored in items or devices does not leak over time.

EU is not related to Redstone current, but multiple machines can be affected by redstone currents, and a [[Detector Cable]] produces redstone current if there is any EU passing through it.
Some machines allow a lever to be mounted directly on its block.

Raw EU values are used to measure capacity of energy storage items or blocks.

== EU/t ==

EU/t means '''Energy unit per tick'''. It is a derived unit of energy over time, a rate of EU consumption or production, similar to the SI derived unit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt Watt].

To measure the average EU/t transferred through a wire over time an [[EC-Meter]] can be used. If clicked once on a cable it will begin measurement. Clicking the same cable again will display the averagely measured EU/t and over how many ticks the measurement took place. It will also begin a new measurement on the same cable.

EU/t transfer can also be observed by the rate of change in EU capacity displayed by storage devices like the [[batbox]].

Minecraft normally operates at about 20 ticks per second, unless you are experiencing client or server [http://mcserverwiki.com/index.php?title=Reducing_Lag lag]. Therefore, under no lag conditions, the rate of EU/sec is 20x EU/t.

== EU-Packet ==
EU-Packet is abbreviated as '''EUP''', which is also used interchangeably with EU Power: the maximum size EU packet a device or wire can handle.

'''EU-Packets''' are the transmission containers of [[EU]]s in Industrial Craft 2. Each tick, the EU sent or received by each machine is done so by an individual EU-Packet.

EU-Packets come in different sizes ranging from 1 EU to 2048 EU. The sum of the EU value of all EU-Packets travelling through a cable or device in one tick is EU/t.

=== Emitters ===
* Generators and storage devices emit EU-packets as big as their output.
* Storage Units always emit packets the size of their "out" value.
* Transformers behave like Storage Units. They are able to upgrade four packets into one of a higher tier or downgrade a single packet into four of a lower tier.

=== Cables ===
[[Cable]]s are limited by the size of EU-Packets that may travel through, NOT the number of packets, NOR the total EU/t contained by these packets. If an EU Packet too large for a cable to handle tries to pass through, the cable will be destroyed.

For example, an unlimited amount of 32 EU-Packets can pass through a Copper cable per tick, but not a single 128 EU-Packet.

Energy loss of a cable is applied to every EU-packet, not the total EU/t passing through. Ex. Using a gold cable, sending 4 32 EU-Packets in a cable (by using 4 [[batbox]]s) results in 4 times the energy loss of sending one 128 EU-Packet (by using a [[MFE Unit]]). See the [[Cable#Voltage Efficiency|Voltage Efficiency]] section for more information.

=== Packet Sizes ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Packet Size
! Emitters
! colspan=5 | Cable
|- style="height: 32px;"
| align="center" | '''Micro Voltage'''
| align="right" | 0-5 EU
| [[Solar Panel]], [[Water Mill]], [[Wind Mill]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Tin Cable.png|link=Tin Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Copper Cable.png|link=Copper Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Gold Cable.png|link=Gold Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Glass Fibre Cable.png|link=Glass Fibre Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid HV Cable.png|link=HV Cable]]
|-
| align="center" | '''Low Voltage'''
| align="right" | 32 EU
| [[Batbox]], [[LV Transformer]],[[Nuclear Reactor]],[[Generator]],[[Geothermal Generator]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Copper Cable.png|link=Copper Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Gold Cable.png|link=Gold Cable]]
| style="border: 0px;" align="center" |[[File:Grid Glass Fibre Cable.png|link=Glass Fibre Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid HV Cable.png|link=HV Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
|-
| align="center" | '''Medium Voltage'''
| align="right" | 128 EU
| [[MFE Unit]], [[MV Transformer]], Redstoned [[LV Transformer]],[[Nuclear Reactor]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Gold Cable.png|link=Gold Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Glass Fibre Cable.png|link=Glass Fibre Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid HV Cable.png|link=HV Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
|-
| align="center" | '''High Voltage'''
| align="right" | 512 EU
| [[MFS Unit]], [[HV Transformer]], Redstoned [[MV Transformer]],[[Nuclear Reactor]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid Glass Fibre Cable.png|link=Glass Fibre Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid HV Cable.png|link=HV Cable]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" |
|-
| align="center" | '''Extreme Voltage'''
| align="right" | 2048 EU
| Redstoned [[HV Transformer]],[[Nuclear Reactor]]
| style="border-right:0;border-left:0" align="center" |[[File:Grid HV Cable.png|link=HV Cable]]
|-
|}

A [[Nuclear Reactor]] is able to provide variable sized packets based on setup, the maximum possible energy output is around 3600 EU\t.

== An Analogy ==

Quote from Zjarek of the Industrial-Craft 2 Forums:

"In IC2 electricity is only a buzz word for small magical dwarfs carrying nanobatteries. From every energy source or storage there is one dwarf released every tick. Size of a dwarf is determined by amount of energy they are carrying. Cables are in reality just a tunnels where they run. If a cable or machine don't provide enough space for a dwarf it will get angry and blow up.

However many dwarfs are happy to run alongside each other and will in cooperation carry any amount of energy through a cable. Big dwarf will still prefer to blow up, then to split, but he can split into smaller dwarfs in transformer. Every smaller dwarf which is produced by transformer can go to the same output tunnel.

These useful little creatures are also sometimes nicknamed packets."

[http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7210 Source]

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