IndustrialCraft 2/Guide/Transformer Upgrade

Transformer Upgrades allow machines to be able to take higher packets of EU at once, and are crafted like so:

Transformer Upgrades are a very important upgrade, especially when used in conjunction with the. This is because they allow the machine they are in to take the next energy tier without exploding. Meaning if a machine can only take 32 EU/t, it would be able to take 128 EU/t. As Overclocker Upgrades increase the power usage of machines, Transformer Upgrades can be used to allow machines to take in more power, and thus cope with the increased demand.

Transformer Upgrades have the effect of the tier going up by 1, per upgrade, meaning a stack of 3 Transformer Upgrades would let a machine normally only capable of accepting 32 EU/t without exploding be able to take 2048 EU/t. As IC2 can only let EU reach 8192 EU/t (via an inverted EV-Transformer), adding of more than 4 Transformer Upgrades for a 1 tier one machine is pointless, but does not mean it consumes any more power however, so it is only a waste of a Transformer Upgrade.