Technically "yes", but putting wires on the belt halves your throughput compared to copper plates and creating the wires where needed ("direct inserting").

Bad example :mrgreen:

Yeah I am currently direct feeding them in to green circuit assemblers. So I now have 9 copper wire machines feeding ...

Loewchen wrote:

Tseitsei wrote:Correct?

Yes.

Thanks

You can find the belt throughput here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Belt_transport_system, the consumption of your assembly machines depends obviously on the recipe: Recipe input x crafting speed / crafting time.

So if I use Assemble Machine 2 and make copper wire:
Recipe input = 1
Crafting speed ...

Sorry a noob question. I'm really new to the game so here goes...

Say I have a full belt (let's say yellow belt) of copper plates coming in. How can I calculate how many level 2 Assembly Machines it can feed properly?
And please don't just say tell the right number but explain how to calculate it ...