What does a negative amount mean?

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planetmaker
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What does a negative amount mean?

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Sometimes it happens that the amount of items in logistics storage is given as negative number. What is that supposed to indicate? That more items are requested than available? Is it a bug and should say 0? Something else?
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Re: What does a negative amount mean?

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I am using this as a amout sensor......

If you want a chest filled with 500 items, so check with -500. so the provider/inserter fill only when the sum of chest + combinator is < 0

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Re: What does a negative amount mean?

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To quote the Wiki, "[t]he logistic network numbers report items in provider and storage chests, minus the amount of items scheduled to be picked up by robots. When negative numbers are shown, it means that more items are being requested than are available in the network."

So your first thought was precisely on target.

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