Restarting a full Igneous Extruder?

[dieselfuelonly]

I'm using an Igneous Extruder connected with Redpower to supply cobblestone for Magma Crucibles. When the cobble is being generated faster than the crucibles can burn it, eventually the extruder fills up completely with cobble itself and stops producing more, even when the connected inventory (tried both a chest+transposer as well as an ejector) starts to empty out. Is there a good way to "suck" the cobble out of the machine with redpower? The only way to currently restart the extruder is to manually remove a cobble, then it starts ejecting into the inventory again and you're good to go until everything fills up again.

When connecting the extruder directly to the crucible, this problem does not exist as the crucible appears to "suck" in more cobble when it needs some, but then I pretty much have to have one extruder for each crucible, and that is complete overkill, unless I try to arrange the crucibles in a circle around extruder, which I don't want to do.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[raiju]

couldn't you add a void pipe midway so that if the magma crucible is full it will just remove excess cobble?

 

[Juanitierno]

I think the extruder will periodically check if it can output the cobble to the second machine and do it on its own.

 

[SilvasRuin]

If Tubestuff had been included in at least the Mindcrack pack, not sure why it wasn't as it was on the FTB update monitoring document and I can't think of any reason for the guys on Mindcrack to avoid it, then there was a block you could tube things into for incineration, and you could have used... I think it's called a restriction tube to make it consider that as a last resort.

But Redpower 2 does have another option. Do the same thing but use a machine... I think it's the Relay, but I'm still learning which machine is which, to spit the excess out into a Cactus or Lava.

 

[King Lemming]

The Extruder automatically ejects when it is able (within a small time window, it isn't spammy for cpu reasons), so this should be a total non-issue. That's what you're seeing with the Crucible - no TE machines pull from adjacent inventories, that's just the Extruder pushing naturally into the Crucible.

 

[MilConDoin]

But Redpower 2 does have another option. Do the same thing but use a machine... I think it's the Relay, but I'm still learning which machine is which, to spit the excess out into a Cactus or Lava.

What you want to do, is eject the excess into the world. So the machine is called an "Ejector". One item per redstone pulse.