Steam turbine example

Basic Steam Turbine

Here's a simple example (perhaps a first tier with the raw essentails) of what is needed to make a steam turbine work :)

Obviously, as your power needs increase, this basic solution may not suffice any longer, at which point, you may need to work on better regulation with PID's for example.

But, this is great for your basic setup.

What you will need to get started:

• 1.2 buckets per second (or 80mB/t - Gold BuildCraft Fluid Pipe for example) of Steam - I tend to use Railcraft steam
• 1x Steam Turbine
• 1x Signal Trimmer
• 96+ Coal Dust - used to configure Rheostats resistance. (One can reduce this requirement a little bit by using more signal trimmers on the signal lines for the rheostats, it saves a few dust)
• 1x Tachometer
• 1x Signal Cable
• 1x Very High Voltage Relay
• 2x Large Rheostat (the one with a heat sink)
• 4+ Small Passive Thermal Dissipators - or better. You don't need as much if you have active dissipators
• 1x Ground Cable

Also recommended:

• Some Very High Voltage Wire (at least 12 probably)
• Circuit Breaker (two or more best, one at the inflow, and one at the output)
• Enough DC/DC converters and respective cables and cores for them to reach the desired voltage
• Electrical Probes and loggers (for watching your power over time)
• Somewhere to dump all of this power (but not essential)

Layout

Below, find a minimal example of a steam generator.

Starting from the upper left, we have a Ralicraft admin steam producer. This can produce ridiculous amounts of steam, which we then pipe into the steam turbine. The steam turbine has a signal trimmer set at 16%, which allows approximately the same as a gold BuildCraft pipe, around 1.2 Buckets/s or 80mb/t. Allowing more than that will actually cause problems and you will explode, since the resistor will not be able to regulate the power enough to prevent the axle from spinning out of control.

To the right of the generator, we have a tachometer: