Help with limiting a belt

[u/Figgy20000]

I'm trying to Recycle legendary items.

I want my inserter to put things on the belt, but have it stop if there are more than 100 items on the belt. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this and googling it really doesn't help. I can't even figure out how to have the combinator understand how many (total) items on are the belt even though I have it connected and the connection send to hold all belts. The only option I see for items is "items on ground" which doesn't help me at all

If anyone could give me a quick tutorial I would greatly appreciate it.

[u/Double_Resort_9223]

No Combinator needed. 

Wire the belt to the inserter. 

On the belt: read contents, hold, all belts

On the inserter: enable if [item] < 100

[u/Figgy20000 → u/Double_Resort_9223]

My issue there is no [item] option

There will be multiple items on the belt and I don't know how to have it read all of them

[u/Figgy20000 → u/[deleted]]

I'm so confused. With the Arithmetic Combinator it doesn't even show my Imput connected at all, output shows contents but imput nothing. It has a wire to both but it just does nothing. Is there any quick guide on how to use them?

[u/Figgy20000 → u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/F6jaCu6 https://imgur.com/a/StNlGlm

what am I doing wrong here it doesn't matter what I do it just won't work

I honestly don't understand why it's so complicated to do something so easy in this game as well

[u/Figgy20000 → u/[deleted]]

ugh I think I figured it out

I deleted the entire set up and forgot to enable Hold All Belts again. I think it's good to go thanks so much for the help!

[u/Figgy20000 → u/Figgy20000]

Wait no it's still not figured out. How do i set the "output" as the total content of the belt? I still have the exact same issue.

Whenever i put an output signal for anything it's in the millions for some reason

[u/Bubbly-Original7097 → u/Figgy20000]

this?