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What is the image in the factorio wiki trying to show me?

It shows an image and no explanation at all.

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... troduction

All it says is that its a binary cell...but how all the things work together is totally missing.

Can someone explain?

I understand the red combinators, but I do not understand what it s trying to show.

Whats S/R Q and Q- mean?

I believe the image shows "RS NOR Latch".

More material can be found in this forum post combinators 101.

Unfortunately as to what these mean and are useful for I'm in the same boat as you.

RS stands for "set, reset". NOR is a standard operator. Others are OR and AND, XOR. I think NOR is simply reversed AND that should output 0 when two input signals are 1.

To understand combinators easier, I would describe it at this:
-factorio conditions are converted into circuit signals
-that are later used to adjust behavior of inserters or small pumps (and other elements that can be wired)

For example, it may be needed to make steel only when there are more than 200 iron plates. A container or a string of smart chests would be used as input to combinators.
It's about maintaining proportions instead of flooding transport belts or liquid storage tanks with excess product.

Hope that helps.

That wiki page is crap, ignore it.