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[Scarpa]

I have a setup like so:

(below the windmills)

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Above this arrangement is six windmills, all stable, with the center tile of each above each of the gear assemblies.

The whole gear/axle/pump assembly says it needs 82 power. The six windmills are each producing 20 power units each, except only the left two windmills show any power draw, the four on the right say 0 power needed. What am I missing here? How do I get those four windmills to feed into the system?

[Bricks]

I'm not really sure how power is distributed.  Generally I have a series of inputs, that attach to a main drive shaft, which is then split up again for the various outputs.  However, I always figured that power was simply added or subtracted from the system.

The windmills on the right may simply be in a position that doesn't allow for any wind power.

[0x517A5D]

Did you build the windmills before installing the gears?  I've had problems that I attribute to that.

Try removing and reinstalling the gears.

[Wahad]

Are you sure the center tile of each windmill is labeled outside?

[0x517A5D]

Are you sure the center tile of each windmill is labeled outside?

He said all six are producing 20 power, so they must be.

[Scarpa]

I did build the gears before the windmills, it might be that. They all are definitely outside, and producing power. It's just that 4 of them aren't feeding the power anywhere.

edit: That was it! Thanks! Now I'm pumping water into my fort. Fun.

[Skorpion]

Hmm. Teeensy flaw with your design there; no provision for an 'off' switch. All my designs have an extra gear assembly between the power source and the output hooked up to a lever, so that I can switch things off for maintenance or emergency FPS boosts.
It's got to be an extra one, as anything turned off with a power source hanging off of it destroys the power source.

[Scarpa]

Well... I did build a lever, but that was when I had less windmills/gears. It was only hooked to the top left gear in that diagram. When I threw the lever once I noticed the fort filling up I realized the bottom left gear still powered the pump array. Hooray for redundancy!

This is all experimental anyway, I wanted to see if I could pump out a 'hole' in an ocean enough to build coffer dams. Next I'll try to build the dams with magma...

[Kidiri]

You also have too much axels:

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Your situation:

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Better situation:

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This way, it'll use less power and would most likely need one or two windmills less (seeing how you've already got 120 power and 82 needed).

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Even better:

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This way, you've got maybe more, and -as Skorpion stated- an off-switch.  Just link up the extra gear assembly to a lever.

[Scarpa]

My intent was to build out the U shape, I hadn't thought far enough ahead to put a double gear assembly there for turning the system off though.

The other axle was because I couldn't get the damn thing started, so I figured I might as well start building random crap until it worked.