Pipeworks example: Auto charge a digtron
What could be nicer than being able to automatically charge the batteries in your digtron!
With pipeworks, that's possible! Here you can learn about your digtron.
Note that this tutorial works with any other chest than the digtron batteries holder.
digtron batteries holder (or any other chest)
it can be filled with any kind of batteries
- RE batteries - with a full holder of it it will discharge quickly
- Crystals - better batteries!
- Blue crystals - the best! ... with a few batteries it lasts longer!!
If you use a self-contained injector chest as a source ... it must be set on Itemwise and the stackwise injector is not to be put after.
Stackwise injector
Place with the batteries holder. It pushes batteries into tubes, and you can trigger it with:
- A blinky plant and a mesecon - the mesecon is put on the injector and the plant at right or left of the injector (with shift+ click). You can remove the plant or put a switch to stop the process when all batteries are charged
- manually you can hit the injector, with a shift+click several times
hv battery box
the high voltage battery box is the central element of the system.
Here are the parameters when you are facing the box:
- control unit - put on the right upgrade slot
- RE bettery - put on the left upgrade slot
- input tube - plug at rear of the box
- output tube - plug at the right of the box
Note that the boxes can be stacked from left to right. The charged batteries will be automatically ejected towards the boxes / the tube on its right (when you are facing the box)
(notice: into the whole system picture, the blinky plant is missing and on the left background there is a pipework system to auto empty inventory by switching on/off quickly to make the blinky signal on the injectors as suggested by onePlayer)
Thank you to everybody and especially to onePlayer and Sgik for their answers and precious help!
Tutorial made on March 3rd, 2020 by Guill4um