Electric Furnace

Electric Furnace
Properties
Type	Machine
Tool
Stackable	Yes (64)
Storage	1 input 1 output 4 upgrades
Upgrades
Tier
Previous tier	Iron Furnace
Next tier	Induction Furnace
Energy Consumption
Max EU Input	32 EU/t (LV)
EU Use	3 EU/t
EU Per Operation	390 EU
EU Storage	416 EU
Technical Details
Operation Length	6.5 Seconds
UU Cost	{{{uu_cost}}}
First appearance	?
ID	IC2:te

The Electric Furnace is an improved and more costly version of the Iron Furnace.

The Electric Furnace is 12.5% faster than the  Iron Furnace and, as the name indicates, uses electricity. By running on electricity instead of burning fuel, it is able to shut off immediately upon finishing (and thus avoids wasting energy). You can best take advantage of this by having an EU storage block between the Electric Furnace and the Generator.

The Electric Furnace uses approximately 390 EU per operation. When connected to a Generator, one piece of coal will provide 10 operations. An Iron Furnace, in comparison, uses 400 EU per operation (Coal has an EU yield of 4000 in a Generator and provides 10 operations in an Iron Furnace) and it doesn't stop when there is nothing left to smelt. Additionally, an Electric Furnace can be powered by alternative sources such as Solar Panels , a BatBox , an MFE or an MFSU .

Note: To use the Electric Furnace with an CESU, MFE or MFSU, you must use a transformer or  Transformer Upgrade otherwise the Electric Furnace will explode.

Recipe

Usage

Simply add something to smelt in the top slot and supply the Electric Furnace with EU.

• The lower slot is used to provide power from a RE Battery or other energy storage item if a direct Cable connection is not available.
• To carry items to the furnace using BuildCraft pipes, you must have the pipe feeding into the top of the furnace.

Energy

	EU
Input	32 EU/t (3 EU/t)
Output	-
Storage	416 EU

Smelting Production Tables Based on Fuel and Furnace Type

Fuel Type		Heat Units	Total EU	Number of Operations per Unit of Fuel
				Stone Furnace (200 Heat)	Iron Furnace (160 Heat)	Electric Furnace (390 EU)	Induction Furnace‡ (6000-208 EU)
							Minimum speed	Maximum speed
	Fuel can with 6 Coalfuel Cells	30576	76440	152	191	196	25.5	735
	Lava Bucket, Lava Cell and Lava Containers††	20000‡‡	20000	100	12.5	51.3†††	6.67†††	192†††
	Fuel can with 6 Biofuel Cells	10416	26040	52	65	66.77	8.6	250
	Coal/Charcoal	1600	4000	8	10	10.25	1.33	38
	Scrap	350	870	1.75	2.2	2.23	0.3	8.4
	Wood/Planks/Other Wood Items†	300	750	1.5	1.9	1.92	0.25	7.2
	Wooden Tools and Weapons	200	500	1.0	1.25	1.28	0.167	4.8
	Regular Saplings and Sticks	100	250	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.0833	2.4
	Rubber Sapling	80	200	0.4	0.5	0.51	0.0667	1.92
	Reed/Cactus	50	120	0.25	0.3	0.3	0.04	1.16

†Other Wood Items = Any block with its material set to "Wood" (includes blocks added by other mods if material defined properly). See Smelting for a complete list of items that can be smelted in a Stone Furnace.
‡Assuming the smelting of 2 items simultaneously, divide by 2 if you are only smelting one item. For values < 2 keep in mind that you will actually have 2 partially finished units.
††All lava containers (e.g. Lava Cells, Lava Cans from Forestry) can be used in Iron Furnaces and Generators from 1.113 onwards.
‡‡All lava containers are worth 10% of their value (2000) inside Iron Furnaces and Generators.
†††Considering as using a Geothermal Generator. Divide by 10 if using a normal Generator instead.

On 1.5.2 makes the Fuel can with 6 Coalfuel Cells 305760 total EU.
On 1.5.2 makes the Fuel can with 6 Biofuel Cells 104160 total EU.

Trivia

The Electric Furnace can accept overclocker upgrades, meaning that it can potentially smelt items faster than its advanced counterpart, the Induction Furnace. While an Electric Furnace with a large number of overclockers can smelt items much faster (about 20 items per second max) without drawing energy when inactive, it can only process one stack at time, making it horrendously energy-inefficient in comparison.

HAYO

Now, we got Iron Furnaces. And we got Redstone dust that for no apparent reason powers circuits indefinitely.

What do you think we would make of this? Cake? No!

We've created a completely new Furnace for you, THE ELECTRIC FURNACE.

As everyone knows, burning things to smelt stuff is reaaaaally old-school. It's like using a Commodore 64. And who's using one right now? Noone, right!

An electrically powered device has 3 important advantages.

First of all, without the wasteful burning of random stuff, much less energy is wasted during operation, meaning we could improve the smelting time of our all-beloved Iron Furnace by a further 12.5%! Now, that alone would be a reason to instantly upgrade to Electric Furnaces, wouldn't it?

BUT IT COMES EVEN BETTER!

Instead of causing massive pollution and shamefully wasting resources, Electric Furnaces are powered by, duh, ELECTRIC ENERGY! This energy is brought to you in form of our ueber-l33t T500-Rechargeable Energy Storation Unit. Or, for short: RE Battery. These little thingies can store quite high amounts of energy and will power Electric Furnaces for a long, long time.

But what happens if you just want to smelt 5 pieces of iron ore, wouldn't such an ueber-powerful battery be a waste? FRIKKIN' NO! Because the third advantage of the Electric Furnace is, it will not waste any energy if it isn't currently smelting something. You can just charge it up with a battery and then smelt whatever you want, whenever you want.

Deal? Deal! HAYO!