Pumping a small amount of liquid every so often

[kcbanner]

Hi,

I'm working on a self contained tree farm backed biomass farm. I am using milk to fuel biogas engines in the farm currently. I plan on having a cow which I use a bucket on via a deployer to gather milk; if this does not work I will just fuel the biogas engine with biomass that my farm creates.

My question is, how do I pump a buckets worth of liquid only once in a while. I know I could have a long waterproof buildcraft pipe going there, but then it would have to completely fill up and I don't want to have that much liquid in the buffer.

Any ideas?

 

[DoctorOr]

Redstone timer (either vanilla redstone or RedPower) should work. Just pulse a signal long enough on a wooden pipe to pump one bucket. You'll have to experiment for how long that pulse should be.

 

[Kocyk]

You could use liquid transposer from TE, if you place one bucket there it will automatically sent milk through pipes with no engines required. Just use timer to send buckets in however often you want.

 

[kcbanner]

You could use liquid transposer from TE, if you place one bucket there it will automatically sent milk through pipes with no engines required. Just use timer to send buckets in however often you want.

I like that idea. Gonna give that a shot!

 

[Celestialphoenix]

If you're using a deployer to refill the bucket, just tube it out to the engines as they can auto-empty buckets. Then have a retriever pull the empties back to the deployer.

You can easily keep multiple engines filled this way on the same tube line. (I normally do it with IC2 Geothermals, it keeps a bank of 40 running no problem)