Why a 7→15 balancer is trivial to build
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:16 am
For my soon-to-be published steel megasmelter design, I needed an absolutely count-perfect 7→15 balancer. Think that's hogwash? So did I, at first. But after many experiments with half-measures, and thinking over the numbers more carefully, I came to accept that, yes, without question, I absolutely required a count-perfect 7→15 balancer or my smelter design would simply never work properly.
My early attempts at 7->15 balancing were absolutely hilarious UPS-gobbling disasters. I believe my first "successful" implementation took a 7→8 balancer from the wiki, whacked each output into one full splitter of a standard 16→16 balancer, and then, from there, tacked on a custom-built 16→15 balancer.
Reading the numbers in the above paragraph, you may have already realized why any design like my prototype was so incredibly dumb. There is a far, far easier means to build this contraption. I'll put the solution in a spoiler in case you haven't thought of it, yet, but want to take a moment to try and puzzle it out on your own:
My early attempts at 7->15 balancing were absolutely hilarious UPS-gobbling disasters. I believe my first "successful" implementation took a 7→8 balancer from the wiki, whacked each output into one full splitter of a standard 16→16 balancer, and then, from there, tacked on a custom-built 16→15 balancer.
Reading the numbers in the above paragraph, you may have already realized why any design like my prototype was so incredibly dumb. There is a far, far easier means to build this contraption. I'll put the solution in a spoiler in case you haven't thought of it, yet, but want to take a moment to try and puzzle it out on your own:
solution
