I want to second this request. I noticed that in 0.15, it is possible to both configure a filter inserter and read its hand contents at the same time. As long as you use separate wire colors, it works reliably. I take this as a sign that the devs are okay with this kind of feature! (A component also...

I was able to reproduce your result (exactly one dispatch per tick, even with many requesters/providers/roboports), but as it turns out there is a flaw: with this technique, requests are no longer balanced between requester chests. It's possible to build circuitry to rotate which chest is making req...

One tick pulsing a 100k request into a logistic requester chest results in one bot delivering to that chest (if logistic bot is available, that is). I really like this approach, it's actually a relatively clean solution to the requester chest request size problem in general. Are there any situation...

Solution: Use red and green wires on the inserter (hold mode). Both wires connect to the *-1 combinator, but the green one passes through an extra combinator first. This provides the extra 1 tick delay you need. There is no Factorio circuit that can solve this problem, because what is needed is a z...

Suppose I am connecting two logistics zones with a requester/inserter/provider chain. If I want a certain (or possibly calculated) number of an item to be in the provider, the best way (because it supports multiple item types) is to multiply the contents of the provider by -1 and adding that to the ...