Single item split between two destinations with sorter?

[viveleroi]

I'd like to have cobble (passing through pneumatic tubes into a sorting machine) to be painted green 50% of the time, and red 50% of the time. I've tried placing the block in two columns with the set colors but it always ends up being the first color. Mainly, I want to smelt half my cobble - not all, but half. Or, I want to auto-craft half into stonebrick, etc.

I can't find a guide with actual pictures as to what the different sorter buttons are for. How can I do this?

 

[simon48xbox]

Redpower 2 wiki this has a list of all the modes (down near the bottom). I'm not sure what mode you need of the top of my head, but this will have it.

Edit: I think you need "Anystack Sequential" or "Allstack Sequential".

 

[sir_schwick]

Anystack will pull one from the inventory(starting in top left) that matches in a column before moving to next column.
Allstack will make sure to get one of everything from the column before moving on.

Keep it in anystack to avoid complications, but they should be equivalent for you.

 

[tompy97]

if you make the distance to the two destinations equal length the items will automatically divide themselves equally. it's an inherent aspect of rp tubes. that way you don't even need a sorter

 

[wolfsilver00]

3 ways to do that.

First: Sort cobble in two or more slots, paint the differently and Anystack sequence.
Second: Sort cobble into a different from any other thing, then, make 2 pneumatic tubes the same color and at the same distance, then, filters, then different paint.
Third: Make the destination chest (or machinery) be at the same distance, then they will split (as tompy97 said)

And: If you want them to go to somewhere first, then if full go to somewhere else (and not caring about distance from source) just make restriction tubes.

 

[viveleroi]

With the design of my factory it's not going to be possible to keep the distance equal for all of the things I want to divide. I've tried the Anystack sequential setting - one stone block in a column with lime green, one stone block in a column with light gray. They always come out as lime green.

Here's my setup:


http://d.pr/i/UHji

 

[Lambert2191]

not really appropriate for your situation but translocators are epic for splitting stacks equally

 

[Platinawolf]

Why use RP2? Toss all cobble into a tesseract sent to send only, then use two tesseracts dumping the cobble where you need it to be and the cobble will be more or less equally split.

An alternative solution would be to void the cobble and use Igneous Extrudes to produce the cobble you need at site.

I <3 Tesseracts! I use them for almost all item transportation, in fact, my sorting system is pretty much Tesseracts and Diamond pipes. I do use a few fancy AE exporters and stuff to handle the more advanced stuff though ^^* Like keeping a certain amount of sand in the network n stuff

 

[viveleroi]

I have a whole production line, that's why I'm trying to do it like this. Items come from an ender chest - ores are sent to the grinder, some items are recycled, or smelt, etc. I want to smelt half my cobble, but I want half my cobble left alone and sent to the barrel sorting system I have, so I have stone and cobble coming in.

 

[whizzball1]

Paint the cobble any color at first, and send it to a tube that has exactly two filters leading out of the grey pipe. Recolor the filters, and voila! In fact, you may not even need the coloring, unless you wanted to put multiple systems together, or tie two systems into one production line.

 

[tompy97]

you can make the destinations equal length by putting a transposer in line. it will act as a destination and a one way pipe.
you can have your pipe split into two, then one block away you can put a transposer or filter on each side. you can even get fancy by using filters that paint the items, then joining the two branches back together