Railcraft Turbine Gate Condition?

[DizzyMiner]

I saw in the railcraft docs that the turbine emits a gate condition when it's at a point where the rotor can be repaired. However, when I go to hook up a pipe to the turbine, it doesn't seem to connect, so I'm a little confused as to what one would _do_ with a gate condition if you can't automatically pull the rotor out and repair it.

Any pointers?

Thanks!

 

[Guswut]

I saw in the railcraft docs that the turbine emits a gate condition when it's at a point where the rotor can be repaired. However, when I go to hook up a pipe to the turbine, it doesn't seem to connect, so I'm a little confused as to what one would _do_ with a gate condition if you can't automatically pull the rotor out and repair it.

Any pointers?

Thanks!

Quick question: By repaired, I assume you don't mean the vanilla MineCraft "put two of these in the same inventory and BAM! One with more durability than both combined", right?

If so, it could technically be repaired after a few seconds (on average) as that is usually how long they last before taking damage.

Thanks!

 

[Abdiel]

You can make a gate emit a redstone signal. You can then control whatever you want with it.

 

[Zjarek_S]

It is to for example activate a redstone lamp to give you indicator, that rotor needs a change. It activates on 40 % according to RC wiki, so you can combine 2 40 % rotors to one 90 % rotor. Newer version of RC also introduced a lot cheaper repair recipe and latest one increased rotor life (also buffing plates recipes, adding steam oven and nerfing scrap).

Edit: Rotors can't be replaced automatically by any means, this shouldn't matter because they last for a very long time. You don't leave your whole machinery chunkloaded, taxing the server, do you?

 

[un worry]

my setup is structure pipe, gate -> redstone signal to howler alarm