I'm trying to build a big furnace array in a way that it aways consume the proper amount of fuel and never distribute the fuel unevenly across the furnaces leaving things uncooked. So the cart aways have to deliver the same amount of fuel than the amount of furnaces.
So I made this contraption around the amount of itens stored in a Minecart with Hopper being delivered to the furnaces at a time.
The piston will retract and release the Minecart with Hopper (red highlight) when the power in it's detector rail bellow changes from 2 to 3, which is when the cart has 23 itens. But since there's a delay until it's released, the release happens at 25 itens. So I've build 25 furnaces.
Itens in the upper Hopper (green highlight) are being inserted in the Minecart with Hopper (red highlight) by the side poiting Hopper (orange highlight).
The problem is, sometimes it releases with 25, others with 24 itens and the problem isn't missing itens comming from the green or orange hoppers. How can I make this consistent?
Now that I wrote it down, maybe I have to put the item count happening before the minecart, in a Dropper or something like that. What do you guys think?
by JeffLebowsky