Talk:Tutorial/Mass-Fab Macerator/@comment-75.118.175.209-20121204221021/@comment-65.130.71.53-20121205021523

It takes a bit of initial EMC to get the Redstone MFM started. I'm still tinkering with it.

The model shown in the picture isn't too bad, but it needs some initial "umph" to get started. If you can, toss 4 emeralds (or the EMC equivalent) into the redstone chest, and try to have at least a few starting blaze rods. The other advice I can give you is make sure you're pumping the right amount of each item through the filters per pulse. I pump 16 rods at a time, 20 blaze powders, and 12 redstone dust. And I have the timer set to maximum speed (0.2 seconds).

(all this advice applies to having 12 overclocker upgrades... I need to lots more testing to determine the right sequence when starting with 0.  I wish I had enough time to tinker)

With the other model I'm currently testing, the redstone dust is located on the overflow from the macerator. At the point starts producing excess rods, they overflow into the redstone condenser until it's full and finally into the outflow to become DM Pedestals. Once it starts, it works really well... but you have to baby it until it starts producing overflow so the redstone chest starts getting filled. I need to figure out a way to refine it. Thus far the model pictured on the article works better.

And the redstone MFM doesn't work with bones so far... the surplus EMC produced by the macerator just isn't enough to keep it fed with redstone. :(  I'll keep trying though.