I have a sugarcane farm with a flying machine that runs off a hopper clock or flipping a trapdoor depending on how much sugarcane I want at that moment in time. It's pretty huge though and crosses a few chunk borders, so if I just leave the minecarts rolling up and down it I come back and they're all over the place, some of them on the same tracks, some not running etc.
I also have the minecarts hit unloading stations under where the flying machine takes off from. So what I'm trying to do is to set off the minecarts when the flying machine sets off, then have them stop once the flying machine returns to the start and waits for the sugar cane to grow again. This is where my redstone knowledge gets shaky, I think I could have an observer looking at the same hopper clock that triggers the flying machine to set the minecarts off, then turns the collecting stations off again so they just empty and stay, and I know I need to invert the signal somehow so the unloaders are switched off when the flying machine returns or when there are items in the hopper minecarts but I can't work out how to do it.
Or am I making this more complicated than I need to?
I have a sugarcane farm with a flying machine that runs off a hopper clock or flipping a trapdoor depending on how much sugarcane I want at that moment in time. It's pretty huge though and crosses a few chunk borders, so if I just leave the minecarts rolling up and down it I come back and they're all over the place, some of them on the same tracks, some not running etc.
I also have the minecarts hit unloading stations under where the flying machine takes off from. So what I'm trying to do is to set off the minecarts when the flying machine sets off, then have them stop once the flying machine returns to the start and waits for the sugar cane to grow again. This is where my redstone knowledge gets shaky, I think I could have an observer looking at the same hopper clock that triggers the flying machine to set the minecarts off, then turns the collecting stations off again so they just empty and stay, and I know I need to invert the signal somehow so the unloaders are switched off when the flying machine returns or when there are items in the hopper minecarts but I can't work out how to do it.
Or am I making this more complicated than I need to?
Thanks for any help you give me!