TL;DR
Add an option to the biochamber to output the contents of the trash slots when it is hooked up to a red or green wire.What?
Pretty much as in the TL;DR. See attachment. I added a nice red box.- 20241119124552_1.jpg (266.94 KiB) Viewed 76 times
Why?
I was trying to prevent inserters from inserting nutrients into a biochamber when the trash slots contain spoilage.I could not figure out how to do this, because the 'Read contents' ignores the trash slots.
In my setup I just output trash onto thesame belt as regular output, and filter out trash further down the line.
Because copper and iron bacteria get backed up this means the trash will build up in the machines.
The inserters keep inserting nutrients into the machines, untill the trash slots are full.
If the copper and iron lines remain backed up for a while this means I have 144 biochambers full of spoilage.
That takes a while to empty, so if the lines start moving again it takes a while for the trash to clear.
If I want to fast start the lines after a break I would have to change my setup and make a dedicated line for spoilage, but that would still mean nutrients keep getting wasted on biochambers while they are idle.
Alternatively I would just want to disable the nutrients inserters when the trash slots are not empty.