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I have 2 belts side loading onto a single belt providing copper and iron plate for a science pack automatic production line, both lanes of the side belts being used. The problem I am having is when the single production line belt is full only one lane from each side feeder is moving onto the single production line because there is always an iron or copper plate blocking the other lane. Is there a way to solve this short of reducing the amount of copper and iron plates being produced/used?
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Re: side loading full belt
Hi Ouroboruss,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're describing is when your side-feeder belt, that has items on both sides, only feeds from one of its sides onto a belt, because that belt only needs an occasional item..... Right?
As far as I know, there's nothing you can do about that really... If anyone has a solution for that (perhaps some circuit magic), that would be very interesting.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're describing is when your side-feeder belt, that has items on both sides, only feeds from one of its sides onto a belt, because that belt only needs an occasional item..... Right?
As far as I know, there's nothing you can do about that really... If anyone has a solution for that (perhaps some circuit magic), that would be very interesting.
Re: side loading full belt
Try just putting a green wire between two belt segments near the end of the belt feeding from the side. It probably won't be *perfect*, but I think you should be able to set it up so it disables one segment as long as there's more than one or two items on the segment in front of it. Haven't tried it but I expect when it enables it'll move items in pairs which should basically give you what you want.
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Re: side loading full belt
this will give you balanced 'side loading'.
it will take from both halves of both belts.
mind the direction of the half used undergound belts. (R to rotate)
it will take from both halves of both belts.
mind the direction of the half used undergound belts. (R to rotate)
Re: side loading full belt
To clarify, you can press R while hovering cursor over an already placed underground belt to reverse its direction (into underground VS out from underground).impetus maximus wrote:mind the direction of the half used undergound belts. (R to rotate)
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yes, thanks.Yoyobuae wrote: To clarify, you can press R while hovering cursor over an already placed underground belt to reverse its direction (into underground VS out from underground).
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Wow, took me a minute to understand what this was doing. Is that what the original poster was looking for? I have plenty of mixed belts and never worried about this.impetus maximus wrote:this will give you balanced 'side loading'.
it will take from both halves of both belts.
mind the direction of the half used undergound belts. (R to rotate)
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i think the OP (welcome to the forums BTW!) was talking about how it was only taking from half a belt when side loading.
"only one lane from each side feeder is moving onto the single production line"
"only one lane from each side feeder is moving onto the single production line"
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There are, in my experience, two frequent situations where it matters. (Edit: I take back the first one, on consideration I realized that it's wrong. The second reason is still valid though.)Mr. Tact wrote: I have plenty of mixed belts and never worried about this.