The really interesting question is why your western wall has this wierd bulge. my inner OCD sense is tingeling.

Put a roboport around the point were they start running out of energy.

If I understand the question correctly the problem is mainly that there are more items to unload than inserters fit to one cargo wagon. Solution 1: Use more cargo wagons. Solution 2: Now it gets complicated. Unload the entire train into local chests, sort it out there, pack the rest into the train a...

I am not sure about the limit. I think I remember that the highest number had a 2 at highest value digit. If you do some searching for timer stuff I am sure you can somewhere find the correct value (or you just make a circuit that increases until the next increase is smaller than the current value a...

First of all your description seems to be faulty since you say that in your first colum you do "*", while your pictures show "/". If I understand you correctly you want to make a fix sized circuit that gives all the digits seperatly. Whenever you reach a new number of digits you'...

Well, expandability is kind of zero, but to me it looks like a base that is fun (Until you at some point just resign and completly rebuild of course). So in my opinion you are doing it right for now.

AutoMcD wrote: So if you just had a giant steam plant that scales back during the day, is the result any different??

You are right, it is not really useful since it is only real benefit is to reduce the number of boilers and offshore pumps. But it's cool and I want it and that's reason enough for me.

Something like "you hover over the signal, the entire block that leads to it shimmers purple and the entire block that it leads to shimmers orange" ? It would at least make complex (read convolutet) rail sections easier to signal and debug.

If it's from Bob's mod, there are patches of lithia water. Like Oil, just in blue. Place a waterpumpjack.

As Bushdoctor says you never told us what you want to do, so we can't judge if what you are doing is correct or not. You did write "If this is correct, You reckon it will leave on the conditions no FULL barrels in Cargo no EMPTY barrels in network 10 Seconds of Inactivity 60 Seconds of time pas...

I am actually more interested in knowing why some of your machines work at all. I just tried your setup none of mine got any heated water. Also you really should place the boiler before the steam engine, not after it.

The easiest I could think of would be to make a buffer chest and activate your seond route if the buffer is above a certain threshold.

It is expandable. You can for example you put splitters in and make a second loop. (Or enlargen the existing one.)

It does work of course. Though I personally don't see the big advantage of it. There have several times been threads about this and in the end it always comes down to personal taste.

In the "general discussion" thread there is a 5X8 one. (You really shouldn't post the same thing twice)

But in your solution each input direction has a section with only 2 belt width. So if one of those inputs is more than 50% full it will bottleneck and a 75%-25% ratio will neverproduce a filled belt.

But you can research with the max speed until you run dry. If you are researching something that would be beneficial RIGHT NOW and you have enough science on the belt you get it a bit earlier, which can be an advantage. For example another quickbar, additional inventory slots or better electric pole...

5X9 here, saving you 3 tiles. Or a variation (same size)
Edit:
Found 6X7 one (and it's the easiest of all of these)