LV Wire Coil

The LV Wire Coil (known as the Copper Wire Coil before v0.6) is a wire added by Immersive Engineering. It buses power around among machines, but it needs LV Wire Connectors at all machine connections. The LV Wire Coil can only stretch up to 16 blocks, through blocks and/or liquids. It is limited to 2048 Flux/tick; for any higher, the player needs MV or HV Wire Coil.

The Engineer Villager trades these for Emeralds.



Power loss
With the default configuration, power being transmitted over LV cables drops by 5% for every 16 blocks traversed. This loss is linear, so after 32 blocks power drops 10%, after 48 blocks it's 15% and so on. LV wires do not transmit anything past 320 blocks.

Additionally there is a penalty applied for not fully using the cable's power capacity—The above loss is increased by a factor that is 10% per 25% of the cable capacity that is unused.

In the case of transmitting 512 Flux/t through a 128-block-long LV wire, its distance-related power loss would be 40% (128 blocks × 5% loss / 16 blocks), and using only ¼ of its max power increases the loss by 30%. The overall loss is 52% (40% loss × 130%), and only 246 Flux/t is received by the other end.

Since Immersive Engineering v0.6, LV wires are capable of carrying a total of 2048 Flux/t. However, LV Connectors are only capable of inputting and outputting 256 Flux/t each. Multiple LV connectors can be used to make the LV wire carry more energy. A total of 8 LV connectors, each transmitting 256 Flux/t, can unify into a single LV wire for the transportation of 2048 RF/t. This would suffer zero power-related loss. Any more connectors