So I am trying to use a gate to output redstone signals to start my engines to pull items out of my machines like compressors and what not. I have found this to be ineffective with the rotary macerator and induction furnace however because if you detect if there is something in the inventory then if there is anything in the battery slot or the secondary slot for these machines it detects that there is something in inventory and starts the engines. Now the problem is the pipe doesn't draw from those slots, and I have to fill those slots so that overflow of items doesn't go into those slots, because they do for whatever reason even though im only piping input from the top. So does anyone have any ideas how to get this to work properly? Or maybe a way that pipes won't pipe into the bottom and secondary input slots of the macerator and furnace?
Buildcraft gates and advanced machines
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Umm... why bother? Just have your redstone engine going full bore. That way it is faster when you do need it. Like you said, it isn't going to be taking anything it isn't supposed to, so what is the harm in it being always on?
I personally stopped using Advanced machines for maceration because of this issue. I've been using Thermal Expansion Pulverizors, Powered Furnaces and Induction Furnaces. which seem to do a bit better job. With the pulverizor you wont have the issue of extra slots to fill, however if you use the induction furnace for processing you'll run into the same issue with the gates as you need sand for the process.
Because its not just redstone engines im also using electrical engines for the macerator and furnace because they are much too fast for the redstone engine, and the electrical engines take quite a bit of power when running full time.
Why not just set the gate to "redstone signal off" ~ "Energy Pulser" that way the gate is always on (unless it's near a redstone signal).
Edit - You need to use an Autarchic Iron gate to get the energy pulser option and this wouldn't require any redstone engines, the gate itself will output the items.
Edit - You need to use an Autarchic Iron gate to get the energy pulser option and this wouldn't require any redstone engines, the gate itself will output the items.
Ok so you people are really not helping me. Please if you reply don't tell me to use a new engine or use something else I only want to know if you have a solution for this problem if not please stop I don't want to change my engines or method of removing the items.
Try using a diamond pipe on the top. They work like insertion pipes, now, so you shouldn't end up with overflow in other slots. As for extracting, you're saying "My macerator runs too fast for stuff, so I need a way to make stuff get pulled out faster." The only way to do that is to use a more powerful engine. OR you could just wait till Saturday. That's the planned release date for the mod pack and Red Power. Redpower can pull out as fast as you set the timer to. Set it to every 0.2 seconds and connect it up to a retriever. Done.
Also, instead of using IC2, you can use TE to process your ores, and obviate the problem. The Induction Smelter runs about as fast as the Induction Furnace.
