CompactSolars Mod (1.12.2, 1.11.2) – Build a Compact Power Plant

CompactSolars Mod adds new solar panel arrays for IndustrialCraft 2 (IC2), letting you combine many solar panels into one block. This saves space and helps reduce lag, which is especially useful on busy servers. The mod also includes powerful solar helmets that can charge your electric gear while you wear it in the sun. These solar arrays generate power during the day but do not have an internal battery to store it.

Features:

Solar Panel Arrays

• Combine the power of multiple solar panels into a single, compact block.
• Low Voltage Solar Array: Generates 8 EU per tick, equivalent to 8 regular solar panels.
• Medium Voltage Solar Array: Generates 64 EU per tick, crafted from 8 LV arrays.
• High Voltage Solar Array: The highest tier, generating 512 EU per tick, requiring a total of 512 solar panels to build.
• Reduces lag by using fewer blocks to generate large amounts of power.
• Arrays have no internal power storage and must be connected to a power grid with cables.

Solar Hats

• Wear solar hats to directly charge electric items you have equipped.
• LV Solar Hat: Charges items at 8 EU per tick.
• MV Solar Hat: Charges items at 64 EU per tick but causes a short Nausea effect.
• HV Solar Hat: The most powerful hat charges items at 512 EU per tick but causes a stronger Nausea effect.

Crafting Recipes:

The LV Solar Hat is a helmet from CompactSolars. It functions as an improved Solar Helmet. It can charge a worn BatPack or Electric Jetpack at 8 EU/tick when in the sun.

The MV Solar Hat is a helmet from CompactSolars. It functions as an improved Solar Helmet. It can charge a worn BatPack, Lappack, Advanced Lappack, Electric Jetpack, Advanced Electric Jetpack, GraviChestPlate, or NanoSuit at 64 EU/tick when in the sun. When charging an item, the MV Solar Hat causes very brief Nausea (less than a second of the effect).

The HV Solar Hat is a helmet from CompactSolars. It functions as an improved Solar Helmet. It can charge any worn armor or utilities, such as the QuantumSuit set, a GraviChestPlate or a Lappack, at 512 EU/tick when in the sun. When charging an item, the HV Solar Hat causes about 6 seconds of Nausea every 6 seconds.

The Low Voltage Solar Array is a block added by CompactSolars that is an upgrade from the regular Solar Panel. It generates power at a rate equivalent to the Advanced Solar Panel provided that the sky is visible, although it does not have any internal storage and also outputs its power at a rate of 8 EU/p as opposed to the Advanced Solar Panel’s packet size of 32 EU/p. This, however, does not allow Low Voltage Solar Arrays to use Ultra-Low-Current Cable to transfer power instead of Copper Cable.

Eight Solar Panels (which each output 1 EU/t by default) are needed in crafting this generator; thus, upgrading to a Solar Array does not serve to generate more power, merely serving to allow the same quantity of power to be generated in a smaller quantity of space and more easily passed along a Cable.

Eight Low Voltage Solar Arrays can be upgraded into a Medium Voltage Solar Array, and 8 of those are required for a High Voltage Solar Array.

Bronze wrench 30183 required to pick up.

Uses

The Medium Voltage Solar Array is a block added by the CompactSolars mod. The second tier solar array, it generates 64 EU per tick and outputs packets of the same size. Upgrading to a Medium Voltage Solar Array allows to generate the same amount of power from a 12.5% smaller area. The Array doesn’t have any internal energy buffer and neither does it charges power items.

The High Voltage Solar Array is the third and topmost tier of solar arrays added by CompactSolars. It is made using 8 Medium Voltage Solar Arrays, which each require 8 Low Voltage Solar Arrays, which each require 8 Solar Panels, bringing the total up to 512 Solar Panels in total plus a stack of LV-Transformers, 8 MV-Transformers and a single HV-Transformer, making it a very expensive and resource-intensive item to create just one. The iron necessary for the generators alone would amount to 32 MACERATED stacks of Iron Ore. If GregTech 4 is installed, many stacks of Silicon Cells and possibly an Industrial Blast Furnace are also necessary.

The High Voltage Solar Array generates and outputs 512 EU/p (HV). It has no internal storage and no method of charging items, so if the Array is connected to no cables, all of its power generation will be for naught. Due to its high output, it requires Glass Fibre Cable or HV Cable (Gold Cable also acceptable in Industrialcraft 2 Experimental) to connect it to a power storage unit. The High Voltage Solar Array is made from 512 Solar Panels, each producing 1 EU/t, so the Solar Array does not serve to generate more power, but merely to generate the same amount of power in a smaller and more compact space.

Since the High Voltage Solar Array takes 512 Solar Panels to craft, doing it manually takes several hours. One of the ways to automate this process is to set up an ME Molecular Assembler Chamber to craft the High Voltage Solar Arrays. The EMC of a High Voltage Solar Array is the equivalent of 323 Diamonds.

Screenshots:

Hats

Requirements:

Industrial Craft 2 Mod Required

CompactSolars Mod Download Links

For Minecraft 1.7.10

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For Minecraft 1.10.2

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For Minecraft 1.11.2

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For Minecraft 1.12.2

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