I know that this is not a very new topic and I already read through various threads regarding this here and on reddit, but still have a lot of unanswered questions.

The problem is, that my megabase was really belt-based with about 400k blue belts, 50k pipe, 100k inserter, 1 GW coal steam power ...

Hello,

I have a question about detecting items on a belt.
Of course it is easy with a wire connected to a decider combinator make something like:
"If item A is on belt, send signal xyz"

If I want a logic like
"If item A OR item B is on belt, send signal xyz"
I simply use two decider combinator ...

impetus maximus wrote:are you playing 0.15, or 0.16? those blueprint strings are from 0.16.25

Playing 0.15 - but besides that very first and last inserter/loader/whatelse - does it contain any .16 technology?

One blue belt is 40/s, 8 buffer lanes is 5/sec, fast inserters can load faster than that easily. Nothing I've thought of to torture it short of actual sabotage has unbalanced the buffer-chest lanes, I've tried all kinds of unbalanced/even/bursty loads for long durations with out-of-spec alarms ...

what? they are set to / - 16 (number of rows), then the chests add to the that (to the inserter).
if coal is flowing in and out they will never load/unload from all inserters because it's moving through.
block the exit and you will see it balance. then open it, and block the entrance. it will ...

try this
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To implement balancing between rows I would suggest you using power switch turning on/off power for the respective rows. And you can use the same logic like with inserters within a row to balance rows with each other. Or you can just stop the input belt for the row if you want to avoid power ...

Hello,

usually I try to fix problems like this on my own - but I got stuck here. The problem I have is a more abstract math problem, but it triggered me when trying to calculate the perfect threshold value for a factorio storage logic.

Setup: There is a belt and alongside a couple of inserters ...