Thanks Loewchen. I forgot the 5s smoothing. That makes sense.

Gnaah, I found my mistake. My steam engines do not provide enough power. They are only producing 16.2 MW max (18 engines) + 10.8 MW accumulators = 27 MW total. And that is surely less than the 29.5 MW I need. But that leads to my original question and the reason why I thought that something is wrong...

Hey, I noticed several power blackouts (base flickering) during critter invasions when my laser turrets start firing. I don't understand why that happens as I have built several accumulators to provide additional power backup. The strange issue is that the base flickers while the accumulators are st...

For example if two items in a row arrive at the sensor belt. The first item gets grabbed and while the inserter is moving that item, the second item will pass by.

Thanks for your input. I know your posted solution. I am using it in some of my factories. Especially for counting items on transport belts (loading/unloading). But this time I needed a timed solution as I can not guarantee that the inserter will grab the item on the transport belt. See the screensh...

Hi, did you also think that the new stack filter inserters could need more filter slots? Well, now you have unlimited slots :D Multi_Filter_Inserter.gif The picture below demonstrates how it is done. total.png Select the items inside the constant combinator you want to have filtered. The pull-up com...

Hello again, for one of my factories I needed a timer that is able to reset itself if a trigger occurs while the timer is still running. That is the result: total.png An Item moves over the Trigger and triggers one tick of its content. In this case red bottle x1. The Init Value combinator multiplies...

Hey, my objective was to use one cargo wagon only per train for loading and unloading items. I.e. the train delivers iron ore from your mines to your base where it gets unloaded by the inserters. After the unloading process the same cargo wagon shall be loaded with items you need at the iron ore min...

In case you have edited the control.lua like skycoder said, be sure you have saved the file as "utf-8". And double-check that the encoding is saved WITHOUT the Byte Order Mark (BOM). Otherwise factorio will fail to load the scenario with an error message like "unexpected symbol near...". So use Text...