Inverse filter setting (Is not filter, take all except...)

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Inverse filter setting (Is not filter, take all except...)

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This request can be seen as is implemented with the combination of belts and inserters:

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The inserter is connected with the belt in his front and a constant combinator, that emits a negative signal (-8 or more) of your not to be taken item.

This is not possible in all cases, so I leave this link collection here.




This covers all subjects about reversing the filter: The smart inserter should be able to take, what's NOT filtered.

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Re: Inverse filter setting (Is not filter, take all except...)

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Is this supposed to still work? I can't seem to do it. I have a combinator that sends a negative number to a filter inserter with no manual filter, set to take filter from circuit, but the filter won't take anything. If I change the combinator to a positive number then it will filter only the item sent by the combinator.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out what it is. I thought filter inserters magically became inverse when sent a negative signal.

Then I found where this originally came from: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35198#p218995

Setting "take filter from network" means the inserter takes any positive signal from network and makes that its filter, sorted by highest value and tiebroken by inventory position. Thus sending a negative value that overrides the positive value eliminates it from filter potential.

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ssilk wrote: This is not possible in all cases, so I leave this link collection here.
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This is a pretty elegant solution that could be used for a lot of other things as well. If you wanted to keep a buffer chest that had 100 steel in it but passed on any more than that. Or if you wanted to spread out the resources on your belt so you picked up resources whenever there were more than two on a single section of belt.

I hadn't given much thought to the idea of using negative combinatorial with "set filters", before.

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I think this can be moved to solved, splitter filter was the solution. I never found the need to more filter and the trick with the negative numbers helped me in many situations to find quite useful solutions which circuits.
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Filter inserters can also be set to blacklist mode since 0.17.0.
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