reactor output.. what to belive?

ok so I'm running my nuclear reactor… got my computer attached by modem to it. Also got an industrial monitor connected to it as well…..

So the reactor GUI says 420eu/t output….
when I peripheral.call("nuclear_reactor_0","getEUOutput") it returns the value of 84
and the industrial monitor reads 1344mB/t
the these readings were taking while it was feeding the MFSU that feeds my base and that was in the 27% full range at the time so the reactor should have been outputting full power


I've noticed that the value returned in lua is exactly 1/5 of what the reactor GUI says… not sure if that will always be the case but I suppose I could just multiply the returned value to get the EU/t to be displayed on the big monitor.

can anyone explain how these values relate and how I can make a meaningful readout panel from them?

I've got 5 reactors to monitor, and I want to eventually have the computer turn them off or on based on power demand from the MFSU because only one reactor needs to run if the base systems are not very active and the MFU still gains a charge.

I think i don't be really helpfull, i just hope give an idea …

I did, several months ago when I began CC, a little program and I didn't had any problem for output. Find NUP (look in my profile, probably my 1st topic) and try it. Hope it will works and help you

If by industrial monitor, you're talking about the industrial information panel with block ID 192 with that green display, that's the correct one.

Otherwise, I'd have to go into your world to look at it. Your reactor can easily output lower than its normal amount if for example you didn't have enough transformers to handle the output in a downtransform system.