Utility Meters

Placed in a cable line, the RF Meter receives power through its top face and outputs it through the bottom, displaying current throughput and the running total. Shift-right-clicking with an empty hand reverses the direction of flow. A redstone signal on the back face stops RF transmission, and the block can also be toggled to switch energy flow off and change the color of its display. Right-clicking with an empty hand opens a simple screen that shows the same information.

The mod's settings menu, opened with a Settings button, exposes finer control over the meter. Transfer can be limited to a rate in RF per tick with 1 RF/t precision. The meter can switch between Counter mode, which only counts throughput and total transfer, and Prepaid mode, which cuts off energy flow after a set amount has been transferred. Settings can be locked with a password. In Prepaid mode the GUI gains two extra displays, Prepaid Left and Prepaid To, and when Prepaid Left reaches 0 the meter disables energy flow.

The project is open source under the zlib License, with public source code and an issue tracker. The mod is set up for client and server, so the server and every player need it. The author notes that Meter Fluids offers the same functionality for fluids, and that a gas variant for Mekanism may be possible; neither is part of this mod.