Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1079343-20130114034222/@comment-1079343-20130120000600

From my understanding the wooden pipe will pull the energy in and move it into a conductive pipe even if there is nowhere for it to go. The energy will build up in the conductive pipes until the pipe explodes (which I have had happen to me). But that is beside the point... I have a simple network of  engine -> wooden conductive pipe -> gold conductive pipe -> Redstone energy cell. This network seems to work with any engine, except the redstone engine.