LATEX

The Laminated Application and Thermal Enclosure eXpert (LATEX) is an HV tier multiblock for coating cables. The LATEX is a direct upgrade from the singleblock assembler for cable coating because it runs at 200% speed, only uses 85% of the EU/t normally required, and offers 8 parallels per voltage tier. There is also an additive 6.25% rubber discount based on the tier of the item pipe casings and the unique opportunity to insert an elastic singularity inside the controller to double the amount of parallels, gain another 25% rubber discount, and unlock the ability to use multi-amp and laser energy hatches.

The LATEX has one tiered component. The item pipe casings determine the overall rubber discount of the machine. The glass can be any tier and has no effect on the operation of the machine. Buses/hatches may replace any casing anywhere on the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported unless there is an elastic singularity in the controller, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure with subchannels "item_pipe" and "glass" to specify the tier of those components.

Structure

• Controller: Front bottom center
• 14-36 Chemically Inert Casing
• 32 Any Tiered Glass
• 16 Polyvinyl Chloride Frame Box
• 6 Item Pipe Casing (Tiered)

  

• 1+ Energy Hatch: Any casing
• 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any casing
• 1+ Input Bus: Any casing
• 1+ Input Hatch: Any casing
• 1+ Output Bus: Any casing

Wallsharing

LATEXs may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings, glass, frame boxes, and buses/hatches. No recipe uses more than 1A of power so it is possible to share one energy hatch between two machines.

The LATEX is a direct upgrade from the singleblock assembler for cable coating because it runs at 200% speed, only uses 85% of the EU/t normally required, and offers 8 parallels per voltage tier, as seen in the following table. There is also an additive 6.25% rubber polymer discount based on the tier of the Item Pipe Casings.

Insert an elastic singularity into the LATEX controller to double the amount of parallels, gain another 25% rubber discount, and unlock the ability to use multi-amp and laser energy hatches. That is a maximum of 240 parallels and a 75% rubber polymer discount. The elastic singularity itself is crafted in a Dire Crafting Table but the five singularities that its comprised of are all made in the Neutronium Compressor or Pseudostable Black Hole Containment Field. That means the upgrade cannot be installed until UV and there is no sharing the singularity between machines. The cost of each singularity is listed below (113,771,520L each).

• Rubber Singularity - 12,345 superdense rubber sheets or 790,080 individual rubber sheets.
• Silicone Rubber Singularity - 12,345 superdense silicone rubber sheets or 790,080 individual silicone rubber sheets.
• Polyvinyl Chloride Singularity - 12,345 superdense polyvinyl chloride sheets or 790,080 individual polyvinyl chloride sheets.
• Styrene Butadiene Rubber Singularity - 12,345 superdense styrene butadiene rubber sheets or 790,080 individual styrene butadiene rubber sheets.
• Polyphenylene Sulfide Singularity - 12,345 superdense polyphenylene sulfide sheets or 790,080 individual polyphenylene sulfide sheets.

The following table lists all the different cable materials by voltage tier, amperage ratio, loss rate, the rubber polymer(s) that they can be crafted with, and whether or not Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) is required. For example, cobalt cables are rated up to LV voltage, carry twice the number of amps as their size (ie. 8x = 16A), lose 1 EU per meter per ampere, can be crafted from rubber / styrene butadiene rubber / silicone rubber, and does not need PPS as an additional supplement. Superconductors are included in this table as a reference but are NOT made in the LATEX--those are crafted in an assembler.

Note that the voltage rating of cables is only a MAXIMUM value and does not have to match the specific voltage actively running on that cable. For example, it is possible to run LV voltage on an MV cable under the same amperage constraints; if the limit is 4A MV then the cable cannot carry more than 4A LV. It is highly recommended to paint cables based on the voltage that they are carrying to avoid a mixup and explosions.

The following is a recommended cable progression based on the options above and the ability to run a lower voltage on a higher voltage cable. This list can vary based on available resources and does not necessarily imply that the other options are bad.

• ALL cable recipes are ULV, except for the bedrockium ones which are EV.
• Redstone Alloy is the only superconductor crafted in the LATEX.
• Infinity, Hypogen, and Spacetime are the only superconductors crafted directly from ingots.
• Ichorium, Black Plutonium, and Awakened Draconium are the only non-superconductors that do not have a cable equivalent.
• UXV is the only playable tier without a superconductor.