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Hi guys,

I am trying some things with accumulating conveyors... and I am stucked.
In my example I have one conveyors (1) which supplies products to another acc. conveyor (2). Is there a way to close the input of conveyor (2) for a certain time when a product has been received before another product can be taken from conveyor (1). Conveyor (1) should recognise the closed input of conveyor (2) and should send the due product to another output gate.

Maybe a little confusing, but hopefully somebody can help me

Thank you

Hello Christian,

Attached, you will find a small example model I made for your question. It contains the two conveyors you mentioned. On the entry trigger of the second conveyor, I close the input of that conveyor and then schedule a user event which opens it again after 30 seconds (see the User Event atom). I updated the Send To statement of the first conveyor such that it sends its products to an open output channel, starting its search at the first channel (the second conveyor). If the input of the second conveyor is closed, products are sent to a sink. I hope this helps you out

Kind regards,

Bram

Hi Bram,

this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for your fast support

Christian