Tekkit Tips and Tricks 6: Energy collectors

6. Energy collectors
Energy collectors are part of the mod EE. This energy collector or collector in short, simply generates EMC from light. Yes, I am not lying, with collectors, you have an infinite amount of EMC at your fingertips. This may seem OP and it is which is the reason why it is soon to be patched. So use this while you can. To make 1, you would need 1 block of diamond, 6 glowstone blocks, 1 glass and 1 furnace. You would need a large amount of EMC to get the diamonds and a trip to the nether is needed for glowstone. All this work is worth it believe me.

Once you get the 24 glowstone dust with the other ingredients and assembled the collector, you only have to place it down in a bright area for it to work. Putting it under sunlight works best, same with putting a torch over it. If you right click it, you should get this interface.

The amount of EMC stored in the collector is the number. In this picture, 0 EMC is stored but your's should have a slowly increasing number. Notice that all the other boxes have a small arrow going though all of them, pointing counter-clockwise. This is the order of increasing fuels. To some, it sounds tough, but I just find it awesome. You know how nearly all fuels have different EMC values? Well, this cycle would use the stored EMC to convert the low EMC fuel into a high EMC fuel. Just to clarify, for a fuel to "level up", it needs enough EMC to add to its own EMC to get the next fuel.

This is the ladder for the fuels:

Charcoal (32)
Redstone dust (64)
Coal (128)
Gunpowder (192)
Glowstone dust (384)
Alchemical coal (512)
Blaze powder (768)
Glowstone Block (1536)
Mobius fuel (2048)
Aeternalis fuel (8192)

You may want to transmute some charcoal and put it into the collector, retrieve redstone and repeat. If you want and you can, place the collector next to a condenser and it would not store the EMC but send it into the condenser instead. Do not know what a condenser is? Click here.

The box on the right is meant as a target. If I put coal into the box and redstone in the cycle, instead of converting it all into aeternalis fuel, it would all become coal and the extra EMC would be stored.