Ok, it has been a few days. I will try to show the problem visually through screenshots. I currently have a chunkloader active that 'should' be loading 9x9 of chunks.
So I put together a simple setup. A solar array (middle left) linked to a energy cell (middle right blending into tree, sorry) with fluxducts, and then a furnace (bottom) linked to the cell with fluxducts as well. All of these are well within the area that the chunkloaders should be keeping active.
Next, you can see that even though they are all in a chunkloaded area, neither the energy cell or the furnace are receiving power.
Now I go over the the solar panels, which when I got to them only had barely begun to collect power even though it had been sunny for a while. The solars are now generating and sending power, but only after I moved into close proximity. In a chunkloaded area, player proximity should not matter. The other pictures show that yes, now that the solars are active, power is being sent to the devices.
However, power stops flowing once I leave the area and return. I have to go back to the solars and restart them.
The chunkloaders, for some reason, are not working properly. These devices are all within a chunkloaded area and are not even that far from each other. This issue is affecting multiblock structures, void miners, woot structures, power transfer, power storage, ore processing, basically everything. I tried many different ways to get around this issue, but all of them require an area to be chunkloaded or they do not work. I have reset the chunkloader many times now and it has not fixed the problem. I have searched online for a solution without much luck, and without more commands available with better chunk loaders, other than /bcl bal, I cannot diagnose the problem on my own. My issue seems to be isolated, just my base (as far as I know). I did have an issue before where a chunkloader was broken accidentally and my available chunkloader balance had to be reset by staff. Could this fact be causing an issue at all? I really need help.
I apologize if this post feels like I am ranting, that is not my intention, I am just frustrated.
Thank you,
CypherKaldarese