Cable

Cables are the main electrical transport mechanism of IndustrialCraft².

Cables are essential for crafting and connecting your electric-powered devices. With them, you can transport and store EU or create anything from basic tools to very advanced machines.

Cables can be either insulated or non-insulated. Most non-insulated cable can shock you when touched, causing damage. Insulated cable is made with rubber.

Note that the rating for each cable is actually per packet, and not total EU/t. This means that the energy from each source has to be at the rating or below, but there is no limit to overal EU/t for each cable as long as that rule is followed.

(i.e. An ultra-low-current cable (5 EU/t rating) can handle the EU/t from 32 manual watermills at once, at 1 EU/packet per mill, that's 32 EU/t total, but it will explode from the output of a batbox, which is also 32 EU/t, but also 32 EU/packet.)

Types of Cable

• Ultra-Low-Current Cable (5 EU/p Max. Energy Loss = 1 EU every 40 blocks.)
• Copper Cable (32 EU/p  [LV]  Max. Energy Loss = 1 EU every 5 blocks. (Insulated))
• Gold Cable (128 EU/p  [MV]  Max. Energy Loss = 1 EU every 2.5 blocks. (2xInsulation))
• Glass Fibre Cable (512 EU/p [HV] Max. Energy Loss = 1 EU every 40 blocks.)
• High-Voltage Cable (2048 EU/p [EV]  Max. Energy Loss = 1 EU every 1.25 blocks. (4xInsulation))
• Superconductorwire (1,000,000 EU/p Max. Energy Loss = None.)

Insulation

Copper, gold and HV cables have insulation. As mentioned above they stop from getting you shocked. Cables start to shock you at these voltages:

• Ultra-Low-Current Cable                                 4 EU/t

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• Uninsulated Copper Cable                              9 EU/t
• Insulated Copper Cable                                  NA

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• Uninsulated Gold Cable                                 10 EU/t
• Insulated Gold Cable                                     33 EU/t
• 2x Insulated Gold Cable                                 NA

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• Uninsulated High-Voltage Cable                     3 EU/t
• Insulated High-Voltage Cable                         130 EU/t
• 2x Insulated High-Voltage Cable                     514 EU/t
• 4x Insulated High-Voltage Cable                     NA

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• Glass Fibre Cable                                         NA

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• Superconductorwire                                      8193 EU/t*

*(The higher the voltage the more damage it does. Around the power of a fusion reactor it will kill a player with one hit even with full gravi armor)