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[MagmaMcFry]

If you have only one item source, you can add a route back there using a restriction tube. If you have multiple sources, you can put them back using a system of filters behind the restriction tube.

[forsaken1111]

   What I need is something that lets me have unneeded items go back where they came from. From what I have seen I don't think you can without colors but I was hoping someone knew how to do it.

You could make the closest next inventory a buffer chest which feeds items back into the system when possible.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I think it might be easier to get help if you can see what I am trying to do. I (attempted) to make a short  (if you can call ten minutes that) video of what I am making (banging my head against a wall) for the past week or more (unspecific cause I forget). Anyway here is a link to the video I ended up with

[LoSboccacc]

is there any particular reason for doing it with RP?

because logistic pipes are loads better for that kind of complex setup (but have many limits: only single player, only 1.2.x)

edit, scratch that, it seems they have something: https://github.com/RS485/LogisticsPipes/downloads

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Because I wanted to use RP for it? Really its because I was going to implement it in Forsaken's Server with all the mods but honestly with Logistics Pipes its less of a how and more of a just doing it. With this RP build it takes some actual work to get running and once I manage to complete it the feeling of accomplishment will be that much greater.

[miauw62]

mayby you could add some chests as buffer? Or slow down your machine?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I had it fast for testing purposes, even when I had it going slow enough to always let any item get from where it was to any other part of the machine it still backed up. The problem is the difference in what needs to go where. For every finished product some autocrafters have to make thousands of things while others may only need to make one or two items but because its a passive receive system they still get items and still craft so while I only need a single energy crystal I still get more. If the crystals could only backup into the place they came from then no problem. That they generally end up in a different spot means that it jams something that probably needs to make more then one thing. As for chests its a thought though at that point buffers may be better but I want the system to backup in a specific way. IE I don't need twenty thousand wood but if left to itself with the ability to push it through to somewhere the machine would gladly make that much and more. I think in the end I will probably have to do something tricky with how I organize the crafting so I can use the color coding to its fullest.

[Supercharazad]

Has anybody here got their heads around the new IndustrialCraft nuclear reactors?

[Girlinhat]

I like the way you say "new" like that.

Basic rundown:
Every fuel cell will trigger a tick, and generate energy and heat.
Every cooling cell, as well as the reactor itself, will remove heat over time.
Every fuel cell that is adjacent to another fuel cell will generate +1 energy for no extra heat.

1 Cell produces 1 tick of energy and 1 tick of heat.  2 Cells produce 2 ticks of energy and 2 ticks of heat.  2 Cells placed next to each other produce 3 ticks of energy and 2 ticks of heat.  4 Cells in a square will produce 8 ticks of energy and 4 of heat.  5 cells in a + shape will produce 9 ticks of energy and 5 ticks of heat.

You can produce vast amounts of energy by putting cells next to each other, but they only share heat to adjacent cooling tools, so the more fuel cells are together the less heat reduction you can manage.  The IC2 forums has a sticky thread of good reactor designs, from stable, to "stable but needs to cool down after all the fuel is used" to "it has to cool down mid-cycle".

[LoSboccacc]

here, get a hang of it using the reactor simulator:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html

(requires java)

[iceball3]

(requires java)

I don't know how anyone who has minecraft doesn't have java though...

[LoSboccacc]

(requires java)

I don't know how anyone who has minecraft doesn't have java though...

good point.

[Supercharazad]

Girlin, I was talking about the new 1.3.2 version of Nuclear Reactors. Different to the ones from 1.2.5.

[Sergius]

Girlin, I was talking about the new 1.3.2 version of Nuclear Reactors. Different to the ones from 1.2.5.

Yeah, seriously guys, try to keep up!

Helpful forum post

Major changes seem to include:
-Reactor is no longer affected by outside blocks (water, lava) for cooling or heating.
-Redstone signal turns it on, instead of off. So the default now is off.
-More kinds of components (2x, 3x, 4x uranium cells, also some sort of enhancer called neutron something, which makes uranium cells more EU efficient).
-Simpler recipe.
-Nukesplosion is now poisonous (radioactive?).
-Maths (need more testing by experienced individuals).
-Coolant cells now only store heat, not dissipate it, so you need something called a HeatSwitch.

[iceball3]

I'm suddenly imagining a crossover mod that uses a thermophile to cool reactors while generating even more energy.
I can feel eloraam turning in her not-grave right now.