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FE Inverter

FE Inverter

A FE buffer block placed on a train car. It stores the current collected from the pantograph and supplies FE to other-mod machines.

Installation

The FE Inverter is a 3-block linked device. When you hold it and right-click the position where you want it, the clicked position becomes the center and 3 blocks are placed automatically in front of and behind it.

  1. Hold the inverter and right-click the position where you want it, such as under a car's floor.
  2. You need 3 blocks of free space in front of and behind the facing direction. It cannot be placed without the free space.
  3. Breaking any one of the 3 linked blocks removes all 3 at once.
  4. Even if the pantograph is mounted on a different car, it auto-shares electricity with FE Inverters on the same train.
  5. The inverter outputs FE to adjacent blocks via the IEnergyStorage capability.

Buffer specs

ItemValue
Capacity1,000,000 FE
Input rate10,000 FE/tick (combined pantograph + adjacent FE input)
Output rate10,000 FE/tick (adjacent FE output)

Train pool electrification

Multi-car behavior (= related to Pantograph):

[Car 1: Pantograph]   [Car 2: FE Inverter]   [Car 3: FE Inverter]
       ↓                          ↓                          ↓
       └─────────────── FE shared across the train pool ───────────────┘
  • If the pantograph is on Car 1, the FE Inverters on Car 2 / Car 3 are also powered
  • Any FE Inverter can output to adjacent FE machines
  • Buffer aggregation: with 3 units = 3,000,000 FE capacity

Compatible external mods

ModConnection method
MekanismAdjacent connection via Universal Cable / Ultimate Energy Cube, etc.
Applied Energistics 2Connect via Energy Cell / Energy Acceptor
Industrial ForegoingConnect via Power Conduit
Create (via Electric Engine)Adjacent for FE → Rotational Force conversion
Other FE-compatible modsAll connectable via IEnergyStorage

GUI / status check

The FE Inverter body has no dedicated GUI (it's a simple buffer block). You can check its status in the following 2 ways.

  • Right-click a placed inverter with an empty hand → shows that single unit's FE level / capacity in chat.
  • Management Computer > Train Detail > Electrification Detail → check the whole train's stored energy at a glance (Electrification Detail popup).
  • Right-click with the **Power Checker** → shows single-unit info when placed, or the total stored energy of the owning train when built into a train.

Model

A vanilla block model (= JSON-defined). The texture is black + green LED-style accents. It's not Geckolib, so it's lightweight (a simple cube shape).