Electro Furnace

Electro Furnace
Properties
Type	Machine
Tool
Stackable	Yes (64)
Technical Details
UU Cost	{{{uu_cost}}}
First appearance	?
ID	IC2:{{{id}}}

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

The benefits of this device compared to the Iron Furnace are that the Electric Furnace is 12.5% faster and, as the name indicates, uses electricity. By running on electricity instead of burning items, it is able to shut off immediately upon finishing (thus avoiding wasted energy). You can best take advantage of this by having some form of energy storage between the Electro Furnace and the generator(s).

The Electro Furnace uses approximately 307 EU per operation. When connected to a Generator, one piece of (char)coal will provide 13 operations. On the other hand, an Iron Furnace uses 400 EUs 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 Electro Furnace can be powered by alternative sources such as Solar Panels.

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.

Energy

	EU
Input	313 (3 EU/t)
Output	-
Storage	313

Each operation costs approximately 307 EU.
Maximum input: 32 EU/t before exploding

Trivia

The Electro Furnace can accept overclocker upgrades, meaning that it can potentially smelt items faster than its advanced counterpart, the Induction_Furnace. While an Electro 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 and is horrendously energy-inefficient.