Applied Energistics
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Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.20.1
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
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Applied Energistics 2 - All The Guides
August 26, 2024 - To even get some Channels, you’ll need the ME Controller which will provide you with 32 Channels per face. You can have a Network without a controller, but you can only have a maximum of 8 Devices in it. Such a network is commonly referred to as an Ad-Hoc-Network. You’ll need to supply power to it through somthing like the Energy Acceptor or the Crystal Resonance Generator, a device that can directly connect to AE2 Cables ...
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Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.18
While ME networks are also created by adjacent ME-capable machines, cables are the primary way of extending an ME network over larger areas.
Reddit
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r/feedthebeast on Reddit: AE2 ME System Question
March 3, 2020 -
I am building an me system in creative first and am wondering if different cables have different power capacities. eg. glass dense smart covered ect
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All of the AE2 cables act in the same way with a couple of exceptions. Your glass cable is your basic starter cable that has 8 channels for 8 separate devices; i.e. interfaces, input and export buses, terminals, etc. The fiber cables can then be covered with wool to give you covered cables that can help minimize visual effects since the glass ones do have an animation on them. Covered cables can then be upgraded to smart cables that can give you a visual indication of how many devices are connected at what points on your cable. This is important because your system will assign channels to devises based off of cable distance from the controller. From this you can combine your cables into dense cables. The change with the dense cable is that it can carry 32 channels, for just as many devices, as long as the cable is connected to a ME controller. Another thing to keep in mind is devices cannot connect directly to a dense cable. You will need to connect a smaller cable for the device connections. There are some other cable devices to note. Toggle buses act as a switch to turn on and off parts of your network. The smaller white glass fiber cables do not transmit information but do allow for AE power to cross over. All of your cables will connect until you paint or dye them into individual colors. P2P tunnels can be used to "condense" dense cables to a couple of channels (one for each side of the tunnel) for long distance connections. P2P tunnels can also be used to transmit energy, fluids, and items from one point to another with infinite throughput. Vein miner and/or ore excavator will destroy an AE network in a heartbeat. Energy receptors and batteries can be placed anywhere on the network and do not use up channels. edit: Devices like interfaces and molecular assemblers can act as cable bridges for up to 8 channels.
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Glass Cables - Cheapest cables. 8 Channels. Covered Cables - Slightly more expensive. Different visual look. Needed to craft higher tiers. Still 8 Channels. Smart Cables - Even more expensive. Visually shows the channels running through the cable, so they are invaluable for debugging. Still 8 Channels. Dense Covered Cables - Like Covered Cables, but thicker. Does not work with the multi-part system, so you will have to attach one of the above cables to it before using it that way. 32 Channel transfer (requires a Controller). Dense Smart Cables - Dense Cables that visually show the channels running through it. 32 Channels (requires a Controller). In earlier versions of AE2, these were just called Dense Cables and the Dense Covered variety didn't exist. Basically every block in the mod (Interfaces, Molecular Assemblers, ME Drives, etc.) - Has various functions. Treated as Fluix color. 8 Channels. P2P Tunnels (ME) - "Point to Point" tunnels really need their own full paragraph, but the gist is that the ME variety uses channels (on a sub-network) to transfer up to 32 channels from 1 input to any number of outputs. An Ad-hoc network can support up to 4 inputs (and 4 outputs) to transfer 128 channels through normal cables rather cheaply. At the extreme, Dense Cable with a Controller can transfer 32 inputs (and post-controller split into even more outputs) to get 1024 channels through a Dense Cable. Quantum Network Bridge (QNB) - Wireless and potentially interdimentional connection. Costs a fair chunk of resources to create, and a lot of power to operate. Transfers up to 32 channels. Color System - Each color will only connect to itself or Fluix. You can both separate and visually identify different networks by using different colors. All colors connect to Fluix, including the vast majority of the blocks in the mod. Cable Anchors - Prevent a cable from connecting to something in the direction it is attached. Also makes that cable climb-able. May be desired for Visuals. Used to make Cable Facades. Quartz Fiber - Blocks Channels, but does allow AE Power to pass through. Useful for powering sub-networks. Ad-Hoc Network - A network without a Controller. Has 8 channels to play with. Commonly used for Sub-Networks. Controller Network - A network with a Controller. Each face of the Controller has 32 Channels, and items using channels trace the shortest path they can back to the Controller. Controllers are a free-form Multiblock with various build rules.
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June 21, 2016 - Also machines with cables in their recipe only carry 8 channels. So 9 machines means the last one will not get a channel. ... AE2 cables do not have a distance restriction, they have a connected device restriction, called "channels".
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Applied Energistics 2: Cables and Channels - Minecraft 1.16 - 1.19 - Modded Minecraft Tutorial - YouTube
In today's tutorial, we'll be going into an explanation of how the various cables for Applied Energistics 2 work, as well as the channels system. As part of...
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Applied Energistics
guide.appliedenergistics.org › 1.19.2 › features › me-network › cables
Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.19.2
While ME networks are also created by adjacent ME-capable machines, cables are the primary way of extending an ME network over larger areas.
Feed The Beast
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Question about ME cables | Feed The Beast - FTB Forum
August 23, 2015 - Cables themselves don't use power, the devices require more power when the data has to travel longer. I can't remember perfectly, but I think I saw the AE2 dev explaining it somewhere.
Applied Energistics
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Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.20.5
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
Applied Energistics
guide.appliedenergistics.org › 1.21 › items-blocks-machines › cables
Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.21
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
Applied Energistics
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Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.21.1
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
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Syn's Shorts - Advanced Cable Management - AE2 (1.12) - YouTube
Syn's Shorts are short tutorial videos to exhibit a few of focused points on particular parts of a mod.This tutorial covers how to keep different ME cables s...
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Applied Energistics
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Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.20.6
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
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Done - AE2 Dense cables | MineYourMind Community
July 21, 2016 - For some reason even with dense cables coming directly off of a me controller, I can only get 8 channels and cannot figure out why, is there any known...
Applied Energistics
guide.appliedenergistics.org › 1.20.2 › items-blocks-machines › cables
Cables - AE2 Players Guide for 1.20.2
They also affect the color of terminals ... HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CABLE COLOR · If you are new to AE2 and unfamiliar with channels, use smart cable and dense smart cable wherever you can....
Feed The Beast
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[AE2] Seperating Cables | Feed The Beast - FTB Forum
October 8, 2015 - Two ways, get yourself two different colours of cable, which won't connect to each other (the base fluix colour connects to all colours though). If the cables are already placed you can use a colour applicator to do this, when appropiately filled. Or separate them with cable anchors. ... Thank you very much. The second method helps me a lot.
Applied Energistics
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ME Dense Cable - Applied Energistics 2
Higher Capacity cable, can carry 32 channels unlike standard cable which can only carry 8, however it doesn't support buses so you must first step down from dense to a smaller cable (such as ME Glass Cable or ME Smart Cable) before using buses or panels.
GitHub
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Leaving and returning causes AE2 ME cables to disconnect and become invisible · Issue #4039 · DarkPacks/SevTech-Ages
January 29, 2020 - After adding some crafting automation to my ME network (a few mekanism machines with interfaces and export buses, inscribers with Integrated Logistics pipes, and a blob of matter assemblers and interfaces), I started getting a problem where after leaving the area (either going ~20 chunks away or going to another dimension), and returning, my ME network and several things nearby would be glitched out: smart cables and anything in their blocks invisible (export/import buses, ME terminals, cable anchors) and nonfunctional, some Immersive Engineering multiblocks would be duplicated (a 2x2 area would have one copy centered on each of the 4 blocks; for me, it happened to my Advanced Coke Oven and Industrial Squeezer, but not the also-nearby Arc Furnace or Crusher).
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Reddit
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r/feedthebeast on Reddit: How do you connect AE2 cables and mekanism cablss?
August 23, 2020 -
Basically, i want to connect my Immersive engineering power source to my ME system in AE2. I also have mekanism cables if thats needed. How do i do this?
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There are two blocks in AE2 that accept power for the system: The Energy Acceptor and the ME Controller. Connect your power to one of those. You can use Mekanism cables or Immersive Engineering cables for that.
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If I understand what you mean correctly, you'll need to supply RF to the applied energistics energy acceptor. Then, in the ME part you can use the AE2 cables, though most (if not all) of the AE2 machines also transmit power themselves