BC Pipes/Gates advice?

[Dragonfel]

Does anyone know a good guide or source of information on the usage of gates and piping items around with BC? I tried the BC wiki, but it's fairly limited on explaining how to properly set up an autarch(sp) gate to pump items out of a storage if the intended designation is empty.

Currently I have 4 recyclers feeding into a mass fabricator (IC2 not gregtech). I placed an autarch gate on each of the wooden pipes from the recyclers with the trigger [Has inventory] - [Pulse something] and that works but at night it overflows the mass fabricator and I get scrap all over the floor. Is there a way to set the condition to send scrap when the mass fabricator is empty?

 

[zooqooo]

You need redpipe wire hooked along the pipe to your scrap chest, where another gate is set to pulse when it receives redpipe wire​

 

[Flip]

With the way you have described, your pipes are sending items regardless of the state of the massfab. They are running checks on the recyclers and sending items out anytime there's an item to send. It's no different than if you had a redstone engine pumping items out nonstop.

There are various ways to set this up properly, but the thing to remember is that gates check the inventory/machine adjacent to them. You need to have a gate on the massfab sending info about its state to whatever you end up using to send items.

 

[Dragonfel]

The problem is, when I set the condition of the Autarch gates next to the recyclers to pulse when they get a redstone signal and a gate on the mass fab to emit a redstone signal when it has room... it doesn't work.

Doing tests at the moment. Currently it's set up as Recycler > wooden pipe (Gate set to pulse on redstone + red pipe wire) > cobble pipe/pipe wire > cobble pipe/pipe wire/autarch gate (set to redstone signal on "room in inventory")

This doesn't seam to work.

 

[Mikey_R]

It's red pipe signal you need, not redstone. Red Pipe is made in the assembly table (I believe) and it needs to connect all the gates you want to be connected.

 

[Dragonfel]

Odd, I don't have the option for emitting a "red pipe" signal.

 

[Vauthil]

You have to have red pipe wire on the pipe with the gate for it to show options for it (same with the other colors of pipe wire).

 

[Dragonfel]

I do have the wire on that pipe, (I even recieve the wire back when I break it and replace it) and I still don't get that option.

 

[Flip]

Put a regular (non-autarchic) gate on the pipe adjacent to the massfab. It should have the option for red pipe wire signal.

 

[Dragonfel]

Put a regular (non-autarchic) gate on the pipe adjacent to the massfab. It should have the option for red pipe wire signal.

Nope, got a cobble pipe leading into the bottom of my mass fab and a regular gate and wire on the pipe. No pipe signal option.

 

[Flip]

I just tested this - it requires an iron gate (or better) it seems.

 

[Dragonfel]

Ah, thanks. I'll try that now.

 

[Magicferret]

Yeah Flip is right, basic gates don't support pipe wire. Iron gates support red, gold ones support red and blue and diamond supports all four colours.

 

[namiasdf]

The problem is with this situation is that you either overfill you mass fab or you overfill your recyclers. Have a buffer. Put another chest in between the recycler and the mass fab. An even better way is to condense your scrap into scrap boxes using an autocrafting table and an autarchic gate. (It's 9 times less items)