Router problems

[David Chambers]

Here's my router setup

http://imgur.com/Kg2ScL0,MwuA5QB,cxJLDR1#2

The images aren't in order, but you get the idea. I have lots of barrels and they have the majority of possible materials that could come out of a quarry. All barrels are filled with something. I also have a extra chest to catch bees etc.

However, the router keeps on putting stuff in the chest when there is plenty of room in barrels for it. I have the router upgraded with speed, bandwidth and thoroughness. Is there any way to fix this?

 

[Larroke]

Routers will equally distribute items into all possible block/inventories. so if you have a barrel of cobble and 18 chests or empty barrels, and 19 pieces of cobble come into the router it will put 1 piece in each block/inventory.

You can rig an overflow system of some sort (still working on mine but others have them working) and just have the router feed barrels (put a machine filter on it if you want to put chests or anything with an inventory touching any other block with an inventory in the system) and when it gets to an item that doesn't have a storage medium it will just dump it out into an overflow chest or secondary sorting system. Another method to sort it, is to put a couple filters before the router and have them filter out bees, rails, fences and other random junk you may see in a quarry that you don't want barreled (have them dump to chest, just don't let chest touch router or barrels unless you use a machine filter.)

Hope that helps.

 

[David Chambers]

Routers will equally distribute items into all possible block/inventories. so if you have a barrel of cobble and 18 chests or empty barrels, and 19 pieces of cobble come into the router it will put 1 piece in each block/inventory.

You can rig an overflow system of some sort (still working on mine but others have them working) and just have the router feed barrels (put a machine filter on it if you want to put chests or anything with an inventory touching any other block with an inventory in the system) and when it gets to an item that doesn't have a storage medium it will just dump it out into an overflow chest or secondary sorting system. Another method to sort it, is to put a couple filters before the router and have them filter out bees, rails, fences and other random junk you may see in a quarry that you don't want barreled (have them dump to chest, just don't let chest touch router or barrels unless you use a machine filter.)

Hope that helps.

Huh, so I'll have to remove that chest pretty much and sort out the drops before they enter the router? So can I have it so it puts stuff in barrels and excess things are stuck into a diamond chest for example?

 

[David Chambers]

Alright, basically what I think I need now is someway to check if the router is jammed and to send the items into an excess chest. I just can't get rid of these quartz crystals

 

[Larroke]

Alright, basically what I think I need now is someway to check if the router is jammed and to send the items into an excess chest. I just can't get rid of these quartz crystals

I used a filter to filter out all 6 possible variants of the quartz crystals into a chest and then to a recycler before it gets to my router. I used a filter to nab rocky bees and heads (vorpal) and other rare mob drops i just tired of putting away manually.

Use a BC gate on the router triggered by inventory full to trigger a logic gate (can't remember the name) that will monitor the signal and if its still up after say.. 2 seconds it triggers a transposer to dump the slot into the secondary system. Use a machine filter on the router to restrict it to just barrels so it doesn't see the transposer (or a router with a ejector upgrade) as a valid inventory.

 

[MrZwij]

A machine filter on the router, set to barrels, is a must. To clear jams, a cheap solution is to stick a filter on the router, on a slow timer. It should grab anything that's in there too long (once in a great while grabbing something that should be sorted to a barrel).

I personally like to presort all my stuff with sorting machines and only send stuff to the router that I know for sure I want in a barrel, but that's much more complicated and expensive.