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backup problem 2 lane to 1 lane

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:37 am
by Exentric90
Fellow Factorians.

I hope you guys have a solution for a problem I have been having.
Seeing that a picture says more than a thousand words here is a screenshot of the problem.
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Thank you in advance.
-Exentric90

Re: backup problem 2 lane to 1 lane

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:40 am
by DaveMcW
Make the 1 lane a faster belt.

Re: backup problem 2 lane to 1 lane

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:52 am
by Exentric90
DaveMcW wrote:Make the 1 lane a faster belt.
But doesn't that make my throughput significantly lower?

Re: backup problem 2 lane to 1 lane

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:59 am
by ssilk
There are several options:
A) replace the belts where you painted the blue arrows on (not those the arrows pointing to) with blue belt.
B) replace the whole line (DaveMacW suggested)
C) create a balancer before that , see https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... s/Balancer
D) think about redesign, cause a half belt can only transport half of the items.
E) live with it. :)

Re: backup problem 2 lane to 1 lane

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:10 pm
by Exentric90
ssilk wrote:There are several options:
A) replace the belts where you painted the blue arrows on (not those the arrows pointing to) with blue belt.
B) replace the whole line (DaveMacW suggested)
C) create a balancer before that , see https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... s/Balancer
D) think about redesign, cause a half belt can only transport half of the items.
E) live with it. :)

Thank you very much good Sir.

The balancer seems to somewhat fix the problem.
Redesign is most probably not far away tho.