Help with jammed sorting machines.

[abraham6501]

Hello, today while on SMP with a friend I started making a sorting system, but the machines get jammed right when I place them down but before anything goes into them. Because noting goes in I assume I've done something wrong pipe wise, but I cant tell what. I really hope someone can help, thanks in advance.

[SXScarecrow]

Your main problem is you have put buffers after the sorting machine. You need to put buffers before the sorting machine, and then pulse the sorting machine with redstone (redstone tubes don't like red alloy wire, best to use ordinary redstone). Otherwise, all you are doing is putting something in a chest and then it won't come out because nothing is 'pulling' it out. Put the buffers before the sorting machine, or use a screwdriver to flip the sorting machines around (This will change the direction of travel however; it will go right to left and not left to right)

[abraham6501]

I did like you suggested and moved the buffers to the other side of the sorters, then gave them a pulse but they still light up as being jamed.

[SXScarecrow]

If you moved the buffers, but not the sorters as well, you've now put the buffer blocking a pipe. Also, are the sorters the right way round?

Ok then, back to basics.

1. Make sure each sorting machine is recieving enough blutricity to work.

2. Make sure the machines are recieving a pulse

3. Make sure all the tubes are going to valid destinations. The chests they are going must have space to spare.

4. Ensure that the tubes are coloured correctly (no two colours on one line of tube), and that you haven't panelled one up by mistake.

5. Check to see if you have messed up in the sorting machine interface. Is the sorting mode appropriate?

Another cause might be that you have selected 'Any item with default route as your sorting mode. This means that anything not sorted will go to another coloured tube to the next sorting machine. This means you will have to colour the tube in the between sorting machines so unsorted items know where to go. If you still can't figure this out, let me on the server and I will fix it for you, because I'm nice and also extremely bored.

[abraham6501]

I have gone through and made sure that all the machines and tubes match what youve said. I will put some screen shots and hopefully you will see something I've done wrong. Also thanks so much for all this help.

[SXScarecrow]

You've set the default color to be white: anything unsorted will go to white. But you've painted the tube immediately after the sorting machine white, which means that nothing can get to the other colored tubes.

[abraham6501]

But the part with the dots are the input, perhaps the texture pack makes it different to yours?

[SXScarecrow]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/tekkit.png/

What what I've tried to do is show you that items cannot go from to the blue and yellow tubes because they have to got through the white first, and they can't. And what is that transposer for?

[abraham6501]

Its a filter to take the items out of the chest.

[abraham6501]

My plan was that I would have drop chests and they would lead the a chest on the other side of that filter

[SXScarecrow]

If items are coming out of that filter to be sorted, then everything is the wrong way round! Sorting machines output from the red dot to the two holes. You really should have made this clear at the start!