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Redstone Waste Routing Control

In order to produce plutonium, polonium, and antimatter pellets, 4 'valves' are required. The term 'valves' used in this project, excluding multiblock valves, refers to redstone sensitive pressurized tubes or mechanical pipes. Those can be made redstone sensitive by right-clicking them with a Mekanism Configurator.

The redstone outputs used for waste routing are as follows: WASTE_PU (waste plutonium pellets), WASTE_PO (waste polonium), WASTE_AM (waste anti-matter pellets), WASTE_POPL (waste polonium pellets).

Setup and Operation

Valve Requirements

  • If you have plutonium pellet production, you always need a WASTE_PU valve
  • Additionally, if you have polonium pellet production and...
    • ...don't have antimatter production, you need WASTE_PO
    • ...do have antimatter production, you need WASTE_PO, WASTE_POPL, and WASTE_AM

Valve Setup

The valve positions are shown below. Redstone valve outputs are active low, meaning that they apply a redstone signal when the valve is supposed to be closed. Redstone sensitive Mekanism pipes allow flow when no redstone signal is applied, so this "active low" state means it allows flow when the RTU outputs no redstone signal. Position the redstone outputs in the locations of the diagonal labelled lines shown below in order to correctly route waste. For setups missing certain parts of the production, certain valves can be omitted as described in the previous section.

Tip

If you have a non-standard redstone setup, you can manually invert redstone outputs to change these to active high in the RTU Gateway Configurator.

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Below is an example with bundled control using the Immersive Engineering mod. Red controls WASTE_PU, orange controls WASTE_PO, yellow controls WASTE_POPL, and lime controls WASTE_AM. This setup in the screenshot is currently commanding anti-matter production.

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It is important with Immersive Engineering to place a Redstone Interface Connector on the computer and Redstone Connectors on the pipes. Redstone Connectors on a computer will not be able to transmit bundled signals.

Pipes are right clicked with a Mekanism Configurator to set them to be redstone sensitive, then an Immersive Engineering screwdriver is used to configure the colors of the connectors and set them as outputs (they default to inputs).

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Valve Commands

These are the valve states set by the system per each waste product mode.

Product WASTE_PU WASTE_PO WASTE_POPL WASTE_AM
Plutonium OPEN CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED
Polonium CLOSED OPEN OPEN CLOSED
Anti-Matter CLOSED OPEN CLOSED OPEN

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Homepage

  1. User Manual
    1. System Setup Guide
      1. Device Layout
        1. Coordinator Displays
      2. Connecting to Mekanism Machines
      3. Application Installation
        1. Space Requirements
        2. Installation
        3. Updating
        4. Uninstalling
      4. SCADA Network
        1. Network Channels
        2. Network Connectivity
      5. Setup & Configuration
        1. Supervisor Setup
        2. Coordinator Setup
        3. Reactor PLC Setup
        4. RTU Gateway Setup
      6. Initial Startup
    2. Configurator Tools
      1. Supervisor Configurator
      2. Coordinator Configurator
      3. Reactor PLC Configurator
      4. RTU Gateway Configurator
      5. Pocket Configurator
    3. Redstone Waste Setup Guide
    4. TL;DR Quickstart
    5. FAQ and Common Problems
    6. Colorblind Accessibility
    7. Annunciator Panels
    8. Alarms
    9. System Views
      1. Main View Screen
      2. Valve & Flow Screen
      3. Unit View Screens
    10. Operating Procedure
    11. Status Messages
    12. Glossary
  2. Computer Applications
    1. Reactor PLC
      1. Front Panel
      2. Non-Networked Mode
      3. RPS
      4. PLC Emergency Coolant
    2. RTU Gateway
      1. Front Panel
    3. Supervisory Computer
      1. Front Panel
    4. Coordinator Computer
      1. Front Panel
    5. Pocket
      1. Home and Navigation
      2. Connectivity
      3. Main Applications
      4. System Details and Testing
  3. Notable System Components
    1. Co-routine Threading
    2. Project File Layout/Overview
    3. PPM - Protected Peripherals Manager
    4. RSIO - Redstone I/O
    5. Utility Classes
    6. Networking
  4. Notes
    1. Known Issues
    2. Process Closed Loop Controller
    3. Project Files and Layout
    4. Alternative Installation Strategies
  5. Investigations
    1. Startup Rate High
    2. Reactor Temperature Calculation
  6. References & Resources
    1. CC: Tweaked Character Set
    2. Mekanism API Notes
    3. Design & Regulatory References
  7. Legacy
    1. coord.settings File
    2. config.lua Files
      1. Supervisor config.lua
      2. Coordinator config.lua
      3. Reactor PLC config.lua
      4. RTU Gateway config.lua

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