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Need help finding a particular 8x8 balancer

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I am looking for an 8x8 balancer that will use items from each side of every input belt regardless of how the output is pulled.

I found this 4x4 one https://i.imgur.com/hbBV6m2.gifv some time ago and I haven't had much need for anything larger until recently but I would like to accomplish what is happening in this image but with 8 in and 8 out instead of 4.

I have a lot of hours in the game but there is a lot that I still don't understand completely. I would appreciate any help that anyone can give.

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Where did you find the original?
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I stumbled across it a while back on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... balancers/

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This should do the trick. Fair warning - due to internal splitter mechanics, the wider the balancer, the more likely that you'll see variations in how the stuff is pulled, depending on which lanes are outputting. But this is about at good as it gets without resorting to complicated circuit mechanics.

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[quote="Mehve"]This should do the trick. Fair warning - due to internal splitter mechanics, the wider the balancer, the more likely that you'll see variations in how the stuff is pulled, depending on which lanes are outputting. But this is about at good as it gets without resorting to complicated circuit mechanics.

Thanks so much! So far that appears to be working just like I want.

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Glad it works. Just for the record - there are no re-invented wheels here. These combined lane/belt balancers are just standard belt balancers with individual lane balancers attached to each input or output lane. You can rearrange them for compactness if you like, but that's just aesthetics. Furthermore, there's zero difference between these combined examples, and simply using a regular belt balancer, with lane balancers used way back at the sources of production. Or at the final points of consumption.

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