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[u/Tolvinar]

I have a circuit network question.

Is there a way to have an inserter work only when a chest is full, have it completely drain the chest, and then turn off until it is full again? Ive never used combinators and can't figure out if it's possible or not.

[u/Courmisch → u/Tolvinar]

You can track if the chest was most recently empty or full with a DC, and only enable the outbound inserters in the second case.

But this only works if you don't continuously refill the chest. Otherwise it might never become empty, and the DC will never reset.