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Whats about this??

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to prevent this!

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Is this solution good? Comments pls. :)

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It does work of course. Though I personally don't see the big advantage of it. There have several times been threads about this and in the end it always comes down to personal taste.

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mergele wrote:It does work of course. Though I personally don't see the big advantage of it. There have several times been threads about this and in the end it always comes down to personal taste.
Ohh ok but thx for the comment :)

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I use a similar arrangement, but I use splitters to feed into the loop,
so if the belt is full the items stop moving. Items moving on belts cost CPU cycles...

I really like your lamps :D

/Uxi

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Yes, that works great. You can also put labs on the inside of the loop! the problem is that it's not expandable. For me, that's not an issue, I like smaller, static lab setups.

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It is expandable. You can for example you put splitters in and make a second loop. (Or enlargen the existing one.)

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Just make more science packs than you need, thats it. Belts would fill up and everything works.
Overengineering is fun, cant take that from you. :D

Also connect all your lamps to a constant combinators that outputs green (or other) color signal and make lamps work all the time, that is much better for this R.D. Lab thing.

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For some fun (and frustration of any particularly obsessive players), you can combine this with the rainbow belt technique, so you load all four types onto a single loop of belt.

For those who want it to be expandable, you can put science on both sides of a tight loop (or even in the middle as well), so to extend the line you just cut off the loop-terminator on the end, drop in more modules, and replace the terminator.

... Though I'll admit that after doing this once to prove I could, I just use the boring double belt line.
Uxi wrote:I use a similar arrangement, but I use splitters to feed into the loop,
so if the belt is full the items stop moving. Items moving on belts cost CPU cycles...
I think this might be the first positive use I've heard for the splitter loop-clogging phenomenon.

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Uxi wrote:

I really like your lamps :D

/Uxi
Thx i too :D

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