Fuel powered engine is a moderately powerful engine, useful when large quantities of refined BC fuel are readily available.
Rotarycraft Handbook Description[]
"The fuel-powered engine runs off of Buildcraft fuel to product shaft power. It performs similarly to that mod's combustion engine in terms of power output. It requires both lubricant and water cooling, and will decelerate as it overheats."
Requirements[]
| Power | 524.288 kW |
| Torque | 2048 Nm |
| Speed | 256 rad/s |
Side Piping Behavior[]
The engine can accept all three liquids required for operation from any non-output side. It cannot accept any items.
Interface[]
- Right click with a fuel bucket to fill the engine.
Angular Transducer Output[]
- Engine coordinates
- Temperature
Screwdriver Usage[]
| Right Click | Rotate engine |
| Shift + Right Click | Rotate engine |
Tips & Tricks[]
- The engine doesn't have a built-in control like other mod integration engines (eg: Magnetostatic Engines), however it does respond to ECU control.
- Each bucket of lubricant lasts approximately 26.5 minutes or almost 2 fuel bucket's worth of production (0.628 mb/s). This means that a single Fuel-Powered Engine with a 16:1 gearbox powering a grinder can lubricate slightly over 19 (including itself) fuel-powered engines.
- Each bucket of fuel lasts 15 minutes at full speed (7 hours idle, 1 hour @ 1/4th speed.) (1.11 mb/s nominal fuel usage)
- The engine stabilizes temperature-wise at ~430C. Cooling fins are ineffective.
- Interacting with the engine brings up a GUI with temperature, lubricant, water, and fuel levels.