Stop quarry from drawing energy when done?

[Teraku]

I've set up a few quarry systems, and they're working pretty great so far. The problem is, the quarries keep slurping up energy after they're done. Is there any way to stop them from doing this, like making the quarry give off a redstone signal once it's done?

[jakalth]

Redstone signal is simple enough, redstone pipe between quarry and chest/tesseract. Once quarry starts chewing into stuff, connect the redstone pipe to your energy tesseract, via rednet cable, and have the tesseract set to operate on high signal, so a partial redstone signal turns it off. Simple solution.

[phazeonphoenix]

There's a part missing there Jakalth, how does Teraku get a quarry to emit a redstone signal in the first place? I can't find anywhere that a Quarry emits a redstone signal when idle/inactive or under any circumstances.

[Kalthas]

you use a redstone PIPE, so the pipe will be emitting a signal when items pass through it. As long as your quarry is operating fast enough you should have a pretty constant signal to provide power.

[phazeonphoenix]

Aah I missed that part. Actually come to think of it this would work well even if there wasn't a fast enough constant stream since quarries have an internal power buffer it would keep going (albeit slowing down).

[jakalth]

It's not a perfect solution, though adding a signal lengthener to it so it takes longer for the signal to shut off could fix that.

[NightFire661]

You can try to build more engines, enough to the point where it doesn't matter if it keeps drawing energy.

And considering this is Tekkit, you can just pop in a few Magmatics and have a Lava world set up to feed them. Or Biofuel but getting Blaze Rods is a pain...

[Gio²]

A gate can see if the quarry's work is done, use that Im pretty sure that should work.

[TonyVS]

build more power, think one guy said I was generating 4100ish Mj/ a tick, with unlimited power who cares buhahahahahaha, just an idea, although intesting I honestly didnt know they still drew power. never been an issue

[Teraku]

Thanks guys, managed to find a good solution. Used Redstone pipe and a signal lengthener, so the engines keep running as long as there's items in the pipes. To start the quarry up, I just use an Obsidian Transport Pipe and throw a block of cobble in there or something.

[badkruka]

If you use BC pipes put a gate on the conductive pipe closesed to the quarry. Config the gate:

"Work Done" - "Red Pipe Signal" or "Redstone signal"

Use pipewire or rednet to connect the engines and the gate.

If pipewire config the gates on the engines to send a redstone signal when reciving a pipewire signal.

If you use rednet cable connect the rednet cable between the gate on the quarry and the engines and config the engines to turn off when getting a redstone signal.

For ME put a sandstone pipe (sandstone gate doesnt attatch itself to the quarry and no blocks will go out from the quarry throu the pipe) on the quarry with a gate on it. Config the gate:

"Work Done" - "Redstone signal" and connect the gate with the engines using rednetcable and config the engines to turn off when getting a redstone signal.