Detecting Full Barrels
- Thread starter Munchmo
- Start date
-
The FTB Forum is now read-only, and is here as an archive. To participate in our community discussions, please join our Discord! https://ftb.team/discord
I agree Iron pipes are pretty useless in this scenario.Well, if you have 2 diamonds to spare, get some diamond pipes, and put them directly on the top of the barrel:
where i is the input, = is the diamond pipes, and o the output.
Just tell them to make the required item go down, and nothing else specified on any other color.
If the barrel is full, your cobble or whatever will continue along the line, to the next diamond pipe telling it to go somewhere specific, or to the output.
Just add a final diamond pipe near the output to route all the excess you don't want to keep into a void pipe.
I usually use this setup, as it seems easier to setup that RP for me, but that is up to the person's preference.
Plus, if you want to do something special if a barrel is full, you have the gates, with "Inventory full", "Inventory empty" or "Has space in inventory", connecting to either redstone or to pipe wires.
Hope it helps
Code:
i ========= o
bbbbbbbbbJust tell them to make the required item go down, and nothing else specified on any other color.
If the barrel is full, your cobble or whatever will continue along the line, to the next diamond pipe telling it to go somewhere specific, or to the output.
Just add a final diamond pipe near the output to route all the excess you don't want to keep into a void pipe.
I usually use this setup, as it seems easier to setup that RP for me, but that is up to the person's preference.
Plus, if you want to do something special if a barrel is full, you have the gates, with "Inventory full", "Inventory empty" or "Has space in inventory", connecting to either redstone or to pipe wires.
Hope it helps
This doesn't appear to actually work - or at least, not in the most recent DW20 pack. Anyone else have an easy way to detect if a barrel is full and emit a redstone signal?
pneumatic tubes going into barrel, restriction tube out another end to a chest, inbetween the tube and chest place item detector.
It works for me: http://imgur.com/ATodzRU. Both gates have "space in inventory, stone" -> "redstone signal". Are you sure that you put the correct item in filtering slot of a gate (you need golden one on better). Gates are also side-sensitive, so for this detection they must be on top.
Ah, top side is the issue. I was trying to use a tubes->barrel system with REther signals to tell the rest of my sorting system when to turn cobble into stone, say. Probably going to have to switch to basic chests.
Just tested, put regulator on top with a stack of queried material, it will only activate if a barrel is full.
Forgive the thread necromancy, but is there any way to do this without putting something on the top or bottom of the barrel? I have a Redpower tube + barrel sorting setup, and I'm trying to set up a system that can say: "If the cobblestone barrel and the sand barrel and the glass barrel are all full, then shut off the igneous extruder." (Otherwise my overflow fills up with glass, and the pulverizer and furnace just waste power.)
Before your general overflow put a filter for the glass or whatever it is you want to turn off your machines then:
after the filter place an item detector -- do something with the pulse to toggle your machines probably a latch or state cell depending on if you want a manual or auto reset.
Dead simple auto reset you could use the filter to spit the overflow items out onto a pressure plate -- use that 'on' signal from the pressure plate to turn off your production machines (every 5 minutes the items will despawn from the plate and kick on the machines until the overflow reaches the shutoff again).
I'd probably use a state cell to customize the signal length. It has the same interface as a timer so you can do very long intervals, so you could use that if you only want the machines to try to produce every hour or something.
after the filter place an item detector -- do something with the pulse to toggle your machines probably a latch or state cell depending on if you want a manual or auto reset.
Dead simple auto reset you could use the filter to spit the overflow items out onto a pressure plate -- use that 'on' signal from the pressure plate to turn off your production machines (every 5 minutes the items will despawn from the plate and kick on the machines until the overflow reaches the shutoff again).
I'd probably use a state cell to customize the signal length. It has the same interface as a timer so you can do very long intervals, so you could use that if you only want the machines to try to produce every hour or something.
Right, but an hour is what I would probably use. Unless I go through an entire barrel of cobble in an hour, I should be fine. Ideally I'd like it to start producing again as soon as one of those 3 barrels is no longer full, but without completely redesigning my barrel system, that doesn't seem possible.
Yeah, this statement is false. Relay will not trigger a gate to stop sending items, at least not an autarchic gate