Lasers

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Introduction

Lasers are used as an endgame way of transporting energy. They have some advantages and disadvantages compared to just using cables for energy transportation, which will be listed bellow.

Advantages of Lasers

• Can be used to transport insanely high amounts of power
• Negligible loss
• Easy to upgrade infrastructure (Just need to replaces hatches)

Disadvantages of Lasers

• Expensive to set up
• Most machines can't be connected directly with a Laser
• Can only go in straight lines
• One Laser Source can only connect to one Laser Target

Setting up Lasers

The first thing you need to to is add a Laser Source Hatch to your power supplying machine like an Active Transformer. After that you install a Laser Target Hatch on the machine that should receive power. Both Hatches need to face each other in a straight line. You then connect both Hatches using the Laser Vacuum Pipe. To finish it just color both Hatches and the Pipes in the same color by using a Spray Can or any other GT-compatible coloring tool.

Low Power Lasers

TBD

Supported machines

Following machines support Laser Hatches:

• Every multiblock from TecTech
• All mega variants of machines
• Lapotronic Supercapacitor (Requires atleast UV-Glass)
• Processing Array
• Power Station/PSS
• Compact Fusion Computer

Active Transformer

Active Transformers are the go to when building infrastructure for Lasers as they can be used to turn a Laser connection. They are also used to connect machines that do not support Lasers as Active Transformers can have both, Laser and Normal Hatches and Dynamos. When working with Active Transformers it is important to turn it off before editing it. If you remove a single block from the structure, making it incomplete, while it has energy, it will explode. This can also be dangerous when machines near it explode, possibly damaging the Active Transformer and resulting in a chain reaction.