The second assembling machine does turn red for a fraction of a second ever so often. I do have two stack inserters per Assembling machine. That should be enough right? knowing that a single stack inserter can manage around 13-ish items/s.mmmPI wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:06 pmHey good luck with your megabase !
For 90/sec you need 2 compressed belts of output, i see you are using the bottleneck & rate calculator mod, so i suppose from the pictures sometimes the assembly machine indicator turns red, either from lack of input or output full.
Either more inserter to feed the machine plate, or more inserters to output the content would help. ( my guess is the output of the 2 fastest assembly isn't put to belts fast enough with only 1 stack inserter).
Well you are correct there are 2 output stack inserter per machine not 1.FruuzZ wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:18 pmThe second assembling machine does turn red for a fraction of a second ever so often. I do have two stack inserters per Assembling machine. That should be enough right? knowing that a single stack inserter can manage around 13-ish items/s.
Input looks fine aswell. The inserters have a slight down time even every 10 seconds or so.
Thanks for this. It seems to be fixed. Like you said even though it seems like 2 inserters on the outside should be enough (and technically it was). The outer inserters did sometimes not use their full capacity and starved the assembling machine for a split second. I moved one of the inner input inserters to the outside on the two right most assembling machines. (3 on the outside and 1 on the inside. and that seems to have done the job.
Thanks! this made me realise there is more than one way to fix this problem. Thanks for your time! This will help a great deal with designing the rest of my "Mega"baseTertius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:19 pmOne of the issues with maximum speed is that items are picked up faster than being delivered by the belt, especially if earlier inserters created gaps on the belt. In this case, later inserters have to change lane and pick up the rest of their items from the other lane. However, changing lanes this way wastes time. It's not the solution to just put as many inserters on one side of a machine until they somehow grab enough. A single full lane is faster than two half full lanes with gaps. It's smarter to provide full lanes. And to merge lanes for later machines, if earlier inserters created gaps.
It's also often faster to let items stall on the belt to collect them for the next inserter swing instead of letting them flowing by. If you just started designing production lines with maximum speed, you will see what I mean later and grow many grey hairs from that (if you don't pull them out right away). Because of that, I decided to design 8-beacon production lines for my base (2 beacon rows) instead of 12-beacon lines, because this way the speed isn't that extreme.
I slightly rebuilt your setup, merged lanes, and was able to reduce the amount of inserters:
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