I recreated your test, with the following modifications: (500 belts, 100 down, 5 columns) - removed circuit controllers except one in the left top (I would only use one in a real game) - made sure all furnaces are filled to capacity (in your saves, some furnaces are still filling up, so the input in...

Nice work, Belter! You forgot to post the saves with your post, though:) The gaps are strange. Mine and dave's BP's do not have them, as far as I could see. (checked both) We both have the "divider" furnace at the back of the line, maybe that has something to do with that... @mmmPi: Making...

That is a good try Dave.
I put the original logs per save in a zip file Results.zip.

Seems i like testing:)

Four setups here:
- Belters V6.38
- DaveMcW
- Dis V1
- Dis 8beacons

Tweaks I made on mine:
- moved the "fill smelter" to the last position
- tweaked the timings.

Dont forget pathfinding works different for disabled stations vs train limits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalfacto ... tion_with/

Dynamic station limits. One way for unload stations would be to count the number of items in all unload chests and use a Decider combinator to set the trainlimit based on the # of items. See the Factorio wiki for the differences between trainlimits and disabling stations. (trainlimits will never sto...

It is csv. I use this powershell script.
Thinking about changing it, some parts are over complicated, i think)

I did the benchmarks the same way as with steel. - made all saves from the same base save (empty.zip) - 50000 tics, 5 repeats - removed the roboports from ranzolger's and Niz' save - ran all saves until they had a stable output for at leas 10 minutes. (100 belts, 270000 i/s) - Made a second version ...

updated my science sushi, it now works with all belt speeds/undies.

This one is slower than your previous one.

@BlueTemplar:
yes. these are for real world late game use. also, I believe using only speed will not be as fast due to the increased use of iron, leading to more swings and more active % per steel bar.
But if you have a design, I'll be happy to test it.

here is the test with all three.
- 25000 ticks
- 10 runs
(dave's save had one weird much higher result, no clue how that happened. I did not do anything on the test computer while running the test)
testfiles attached.

So, I just did an UPS test: Not sure why your last one is still(about 4%) slower. Method used: - made an empty save and added the blueprints - made the two benchmark saves from the empty save (10 belts of steel each) and run the benchmark 3 times for 50000 ticks, including the empty one for referenc...

Looks nice. did you do an UPS test comparison?

I got this one (exponential average) a while ago from this forum. it is very accurate when you set the S higher, or use 2 in a row. input top left, set the multiplier to the desired number for the resolution, output top right, fading factor CC bottom right 0eNrFVl1um0AQvss8VpAazE/MWy+Ql0h5qSqEYRyPBA...

Nope. Incomplete. you left out mine.

So, i tried to make a "proper" benchmark...:) I used my steel setup and belters latest steel setup. Made two saves in editor mode, each produces 100 blue belts of steel. (saves attached) Used this script to run the benchmarks at 20000 ticks, 5 3 runs per save: https://github.com/velit/Fact...

Well... here is another one. Same timings as above, but it fits in a city block by rearranging the furnaces. Advantages over V1: - fits in cityblock - more inserters sleep (they are all green now) - less beacons! (320) (you can add your own bloody lamps) :mrgreen: 0eNrdndtSHMmWpt+Fa7Qt/OxeNj1PMXdtMh...

Following Rex, here is a direct insertion version. Not sure if it will be more ups friendly. 12 beaconed is just a bit to fast for a long inserter in vanilla, leading to more furnaces, and more beacons. We 'll need to test it. Inserter timer: the most UPS friendly way i know is giving a signal every...

I agree with your points in general. ssilk, but the "bug" is something else: To clarify the "bug": 1. train wants to leave 2. there is no free station available. All destinations report x/x as trainlimit/train reservation. 3.The train has left the station (no "T" signal...