At a quick test, it seems to be about 7% slower than a simple setup. Here's what I used, no guarantee it's the best setup for either case. Unbalanced intentionally, though it is lane balanced. Took the screen shot as soon as the green one (right) hit 1k.blazespinnaker wrote: ↑Sat Jan 02, 2021 2:56 am Cool, thanks, will check this out for sure. Balancing load to trains is pain. What sort of impact does this have on loading throughput? (if any)
Glad to know my designs are appreciated, thank you very much.blazespinnaker wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:14 pm Were you able to do the offload, Binoculars?
Be curious if anyone has made anything better than this. I'm working on trying to do something better, but so far no luck.
You've got some great stuff. Clean, simple.
Thanks. The unloader was designed before the loader, but they share similar features. It unloads up to 8 blue belts and balances wagons, chests, belts and lanes.Binoculars wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:37 pmVery beautiful creation, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
It is true that the distance between each chest is hardly important. Too many combinator however.
Did you create an unload on the same principle?
Hmm, do you have an example of using it to unload you can share?
This is my high volume "no gaps allowed" unloader:blazespinnaker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:56 am Hmm, do you have an example of using it to unload you can share?
Do you mean that in the sense that it doesn't pack the belt when it backs up? The unloader in my screenshot is not unloading anything right now because production is backed up because I am working on the upstream. It isn't unloading because the full belt is the only one above the average. For my purposes, the fact that it doesn't pack the belt when production is backed up is irrelevant. My constraints are that it produces a compressed belt and that it unloads the chests evenly. The compressed belt is necessary because I have one build that pulls 29.87 items/sec off a red belt (30 items/sec max). Unloading evenly makes sure the trains unload at maximum speed.But I find it doesn't work so well when you have impaired production.
So I guess what I'm not seeing is what additional conditions you need the loader to meet.This works surprisingly well for offloading if you're consuming the belts and is currently my goto approach, at least until I get things to train scale. I'm thinking there might be a way to tweak this further, especially stack sizes.
I see you have some seemingly pointless squiggles inside your balancers, as well as some unconnected underground belts betwixt the wagons. Is there a reason for this? Are you just trying to fill space?
The belts between inserters and 1 to 1 balancer are needed for buffering items. The unconected undergrounds are for aesthetic purposes and have no other function.
I see you have some seemingly pointless squiggles inside your balances, as well as some unconnected underground belts betwixt the wagons. Is there a reason for this? Are you just trying to fill space?
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