today on blacraft: a janky ass hopper-stream splitter
the motivation is that items usually come in out of the item elevator in stacks of 64. also, overflow-safe sorters have a buffer size of just 23, meaning you need at least 3 to successfully collect everything.
the original solution was the loop-back flow i have in the system, but once most of the item-types were filled, i disabled it, because having items go around and around without being sorted causes a lot of bandwidth usage aka $$$.
instead, since i have 4 hoppers collecting gunpowder, two of which have their corresponding storage sections filled, i could simply redirect 1 of the filled hoppers to one of the two not-yet-filled hopper streams.
however, this presents a problem, since i'd like to split that 1 stream evenly between the two not-yet filled streams. also i don't have much experience with redstone clocks. cue a really janky system which does the job