MFR farm planter automation help

[ZippoMoon]

So I have a MFR farm set with pipe's taking seeds from the harvester's chest and putting them back into the planter's while an ME precision import bus taking the crop's and a ME level emitter turning the harvester's off as needed. However even with all of this the system is not 100% automated, I need a way to pull excess seeds out of the planter's for deletion (I was going to use Extra Utilities Trash Can block) while leaving a certain amount (like say half a stack) so that the planter's can do their job, otherwise the seed's will just back up in to the chest filling it and preventing the crop's from reaching the ME network. Anyone know of a pipe/block that can fill this role?

 

[Wagon153]

Well, what you could do is use AE for all of it(interface behind the harvester and storage bus on the planter set for seeds). Have the storage bus on the planter have a higher priority than your storage drives. Then have another storage bus set for seeds on a trash can with a priority between the storage drives and the planter storage bus. That way seeds will first go to the planter. If they can't, they will go to the trashcan.

 

[ZippoMoon]

That could work, but if anyone has any other idea's I'm willing to hear them.

 

[Wagon153]

Alternatively, you could just pull out all seeds from the chest into a trashcan/deep storage unit. Pulling out of the planter itself is impossible.

 

[ZippoMoon]

Pulling out of the planter itself is impossible.

I...did not know that, huh thanks for telling me. I'll go and use your idea, thanks![DOUBLEPOST=1413779003][/DOUBLEPOST]OK problem, how does priority work? It's being inconsistent with me I have the ME Storage Bus's for the planters set to priority 3, the Bus for the trash can set to 2 and the drive's set at the default 1, and I have all the bus's programmed with the seeds as appropriate for the field properly but for some reason while some set's are working correctly for other's the seed's are just sitting in the chest not being pulled by their precision import bus even though I added the seed to the filter and for my diamond field the seeds are going into the drive's what's going on!?[DOUBLEPOST=1413843788,1413762398][/DOUBLEPOST]bump[DOUBLEPOST=1413854144][/DOUBLEPOST]Never mind I fixed it.