I was trying to use an autocrafting bench to create compressed cobblestone from Extra Utilities and then pipe the compressed cobblestone out. It works fine until I speed up the rate at which items are added into the bench. If the bench storage is full, it won't craft because it doesn't have anywhere to hold the output until I manually remove extra ingredients.

Also, what are the two gauges on the left of the gui for? One appears to be power, but I'm not sure how to power it, given that Thermal Expansion flux ducts don't connect to the bench. Wiki is severely lacking in information.

Having a dedicated output slot would solve this specific problem, but not all of them. This bench is designed to work with PR routed pipes (which is why flux ducts won't really work).

Say I have the bench set to make pick axes and I use a request pipe to order 1000 of them. The bench quickly fills up with cobble since the sticks are farther away or whatever reason. The crafting gets stuck.

I'm thinking I'll add some additional options to the crafting chip so it won't let too many of one ingredient fill up the bench.

I don't want to do anything to the actual bench itself. It is a simple and clean implementation that will do its job.