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Copper cable

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Copper cables are very important for manufacturing circuits and electrical connections. Copper cable can also be used. Select the Copper cable from your inventory, and connect it with a left click to two Electric poles. This way, you can manually wire some of the more complex systems, like making steam enginges work only when accumulators are empty.

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Recipes using copper cables

Electronic circuit Advanced circuit Basic beacon |- Red wire Green wire Small electric pole |-

Ratios

Copper wire is used used nearly solely for Electronic circuits and Advanced circuits. Note, that one Copper plate is needed to craft two wires. This expansion is a problem, cause belts are normally not able to handle that load. This is a typical beginner mistake, but it is not a total fail, cause there are successful designs, which handle this with belts.

There are a number of good designs to handle this without belts: