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Reference conveyor "travel distance" instead of item travel distance?

I am trying to control the movement of a conveyor. It is a "stop n go" conveyor that always advances by the same distance X and then stops.

I made it work by using the Fixed Interval Movement (power and free), measuring the distance traveled by an item and stopping the conveyor when the item travelled the desired distance.

But it has to "stop n go" even if there are NO products on the conveyor. And when there are no items, my logic stops working because its based on the movement of items.

My question is this: Is there a way to reference the conveyor "travel distance" instead of a conveyorItem travel distance ?

I'm pretty sure there is because the Fixed Interval Movement is probably based on it but I can't figure out how to reference it.

Thanks a lot !

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Felix Möhlmann answered

Speed (as well as acceleration and deceleration if applicable) are set values for the conveyor. You could simply time the motion.

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