Problems with chest sending too many items (Industrial Grinder)

[Y2Stu]

I have a problem with trying to automate my industrial grinder. I want it so i can stick my ores in a chest and the grinder will take them and output the dusts into another chest. They input from the top of the machine and outputs from the side of the machine.

I have it set up where i can place the ores into a chest and it will the take them into one of the four grinders which is told where to go via a diamond pipe. The machine works fine if i just put a stack of the ore in the chest. But the problem arrives when the grinder is full (lets say Copper ore) and the chest is sending another stack of copper ore to it. It just spits them out of the pipe. I think some sort of gate will combat this solution but i have no idea what type of gate.

Here is an image of my setup and i hope this helps in anyway

 

[arentol]

Personally I avoid BC pipes for this very reason unless I am using logistics pipes. There are solutions most of the time, like a Gate at the receiving inventory, pipe wire, and an autarchic gate at the sending inventory, but they sure seem like a lot more trouble than they are worth most of the time. For instance, in this case the gate solution probably won't work because you have only 1 input but 4 machines that could be filled up. You would have to turn it off when any one of them was full, greatly slowing the processing when working with different ores.

The simplest solution in this case might be an obsidian pipe. It could pick up the dropped ores and route them right back into the input chest to be sent through again.

Personally though i would just use RP2. You could just replace your entire input system (aside from the chest) with a transposer on a timer, pneumatic tubes, and filters (or no filters if you want it to work faster overall). You could leave the output the same, as it shouldn't have any issues if you are regularly emptying the chest.

If a timer isn't an option (due to server rules or something), then you could use gates and have 4 input chests, or could use AE. If you are sitting on a lot of spare quartz setting up an AE system just for this alone would be easy and would be a good way to learn the mod.

 

[SatanicSanta]

In the past I have used an iron pipe. Yes, an iron pipe. You need to make a 2x2 square. If you have your stone pipe going down, add one onto the right/left side of it, above that pipe an iron pipe, and have the stone pipe loop back around. Have the input of the iron pipe be on the side the overflow would enter, and the output the other side. This will stop overflow from happening as the ores will loop around this square until there is space in the Grinder. I hope this wasn't too confusing. If you want I will post a picture of what I mean, or a video, just let me know.

 

[Runo]

Best case here is using Applied Energistics. I neglected proper automation for a week and was a quarrying madman but had it all stored in my ME network. Hooked it up and blam, processed like 20-30,000 ores in a day. Do it one better and hook an induction furnace flipped to on to the network as well, and you'll have the bars waiting for you. Just be careful not to put ferrous in the export bus as you should manually process it with mercury later.

 

[Grunguk]

Two speedy and simple solutions if you don't want to go the AE route or just want a quick fix.

1. Pipe into Hoppers, you can stack them as high as you want, they can hold 4 stacks each and will automatically pump downwards.

2: Put a chest above your industrial grinder block connected to it by a single wooden pipe (no longer, the gate needs to read the IG's inventory so must be next to it) with an autarchic gate set to "Inventory Empty - Energy Pulser".

Either should prevent overflow.

 

[TangentialThreat]

Everybody overlooks golems. They are awesome for this kind of thing.

 

[DoctorOr]

Personally I avoid IC pipes

Me, I avoid IC pipes because they don't exist.

Now BC pipes has a solution to this problem. They exist. They also solve the OPs problem with this very rare item called the "iron pipe", which can cause items to reverse direction.[DOUBLEPOST=1369202333][/DOUBLEPOST]

In the past I have used an iron pipe. Yes, an iron pipe. You need to make a 2x2 square. If you have your stone pipe going down, add one onto the right/left side of it, above that pipe an iron pipe, and have the stone pipe loop back around.

The loop, while functional, is superfluous. As I said, an iron pipe will cause items to reverse direction and return to the originating chest. Unless the OP has filled the chest in the meantime, it will not get lost. Combined with pipe wire and gates, both lost items and large quantities of entities in loops can be avoided.

 

[SatanicSanta]

Me, I avoid IC pipes because they don't exist.

Now BC pipes has a solution to this problem. They exist. They also solve the OPs problem with this very rare item called the "iron pipe", which can cause items to reverse direction.[DOUBLEPOST=1369202333][/DOUBLEPOST]

The loop, while functional, is superfluous. As I said, an iron pipe will cause items to reverse direction and return to the originating chest. Unless the OP has filled the chest in the meantime, it will not get lost. Combined with pipe wire and gates, both lost items and large quantities of entities in loops can be avoided.

Then just add another iron pipe. xD

 

[Bigglesworth]

Everybody overlooks golems. They are awesome for this kind of thing.

And the most steampunk solution. I think I will do this in the future

 

[namiasdf]

Create a loop in your bc piping. The items will continuously cycle through and enter when space is available.

This is how I solve the solution to most multi-item/over-stacked processes.

 

[Grydian2]

insertion pipe touching the machine helps make sure the items in the loop get put into the grinder. And an iron pipe at the end to "cap" the pipe system and prevent spills. I use loops or just pipe bouncing all the time until I have AE setup.

 

[Celestialphoenix]