Talk:Retrievulator/@comment-188.222.200.81-20121118055017/@comment-5796218-20121203195218

This occurs because of how RTVs work - there is one stack, so all slots in the T side looking for one stack are satisfied. If you're connecting directly to a large tube network you can just pipe pneumatic tube into the output face of the macerator and then other RT/RTVs will pull from it as needed. Your other option is to get rid of the RTV and use a Filter or Retriver in between the macerator and a chest and give it redstone pulses (eg from a timer). It will pull as much as it can into the chest and will only stop when the chest is full. Since you want to get away from filters you can also keep the RT/RTV but put something in the T side like a diamond or dirt (anything that will never actually be in the chest). Since the T side will never be satisfied it will keep requesting stacks.