Nice setup! I needed a way to determine how much power there is to shut down my smart furnace safely before a blackout. This helps a lot. The only downside is the manual setup needed. I wish there was a solution that just works when you place a blueprint.

Hi everyone, recently I have became very disappointed with cirucits and when reading the forum I feel that I am not the only one. I wanted to create something useful with circuits and achieve better control of what my factory is doing. The goal was to increase automation and better utilize my assemb...

I have a belt-based smart furnace running without problems. What I'm doing is accurate accounting of input material and perfect timing, as gertibrumm suggested. It is possible but I've been working on it for weeks. I have developed a couple of separate "functions" to accomplish the tasks -...

Nice setup, but... it is very, very crude. I don't want to offend you, it's just my impression. 1) Why do you have the divide by two combinator in the depot circuit? It seems to serve no function. 2) You say that one of the train conditions in the depot should be circuit "green > 1". Howev...

Original issue was that nobody uses current night vision. The green screen is hard to look at, and it's better off fighting in the dark and use lamps. I use night vision and I like it. It is easier than placing lamps and after some time I even stopped noticing the green tint. So for me it is good c...

This is cool. I like the design with all the stone walls and the hazard concrete.

But I'd do it with Bots anyways... as I'm doing pretty much everything with bots. Belts are somehow messy because the devs refuse to implement certain quality of life things like lane-swappers or smart splitters... and I can't stand looking at all the ugly contraptions anymore that are necessary to...

justarandomgeek wrote:This can be done with no combinators at all - wire an inserter to a chest.

Did you even read the thread or did you just post your example? -.-
Your solution does not solve the problem for filter inserters and you are not the first one to make this mistake.

Someone should put the compact hysteresis here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Circuit-network_Cookbook
There are a few threads with hysteresis already..

Not sure how original this is, but I've made a rather space efficient smelting design: [...] Edit (2016-11-21): fixed it! Very clever design, well done! I like it, too. It reminds me of XKnights smart furnace layout, just with belts. Too sad there is no space for at least 1 combinator per furnace. ...

With other words to develop memory module sockets around HBM would be an absolute nightmare, if not impossible for economical reasons because of how many pins would go off-chip to the motherboard. That and you'd probably lose a great deal of the performance due to synchronization latency that becom...

Thank you jcranmer for the info. Especially the fluid part is interesting. The thread should be more visible to people who build combinator stuff. What is the meaning of "odd" and "even"? The number of placed curves? The position (x+y) in tiles? Only the number makes sense, other...

The furnace setup looks very elegant, but why do you rely on coal when electric furnaces are simpler to operate? If you connect a inserter with a circuit wire to just a pole and nothing else and set it to "read hand contents, hold" and "enable everyhting = 0" it will pick up just...

Interestingly enough, it actually isn't the CPU that bottlenecks first. According to rseding, the biggest bottleneck is actually RAM Latency. On a large factory there is so much data that needs to be fetched, processed, and updated again, that the system ram cannot respond to commands quickly enoug...

For now I want to note some things about your shared furnace belt. There are many builds with shared input output belt on the forum so its problems are well known. Really? I tried searching in forums and on Reddit but couldn't find any shared input/output belt setup. A quick search doesn't turn up ...

The loop thing you've built is interesting. Unfortunately I'm quite busy building a smart furnace with belts so I don't have time to take a deeper look into your contraptions. I'll do it later when I will need such things. For now I want to note some things about your shared furnace belt. There are ...

I'm working on something similar. I am using packets of 12 items per lane so the receiving end can use one stack inserter per lane and pick up a full packet in one go. When you use splitters to split off a packet from the belt again you will need to block the complete belt (both lanes) to get a pack...

Hey Dude!, great set-up! :) but it seems, the blueprint string of the controller is broken. Killrogs crashes the actual session an blueprint string says the string is not a valid format. Can you refresh the blueprint string in your posts? :P You need the Blueprint String mod to load the strings. KB...

I like this

I tried different variations with loops and found a setup that works. Look closely at the pump arrangement. The key is to not use a pump between the input/loop intersection and the storange tank like in your setup.