I use this kind of output quite plenty. There is no harm on funcionality and it works as illustrative indicator of processing. The measure of "red" on the belt indicates how much is it going. There are dozens of better checks, however this one is just comfortable for me.mrvn wrote:What is the point of looping the advanced circuits?
If you look at the bottom, you see there is only one belt of copper coming in. The splitting is just to load more efficiently.huliosh wrote:how copper cable production can keep up with so many boosted advanced circuits? Copper cable assembler has 4 affected beacons, but advanced circuits has dozens. 4 vs 5-6? Also It looks nice, but I think that 1 express belt input for 1 copper cable with 400% is more than enough.
I see, thanks for feedback.Xeanoa wrote:If you look at the bottom, you see there is only one belt of copper coming in. The splitting is just to load more efficiently.huliosh wrote:how copper cable production can keep up with so many boosted advanced circuits? Copper cable assembler has 4 affected beacons, but advanced circuits has dozens. 4 vs 5-6? Also It looks nice, but I think that 1 express belt input for 1 copper cable with 400% is more than enough.
(well, maybe not so becouse its not fully symetric). However i dont like using stack inserters for fast operations between machines and belts (i use it for machine-machine tranports only). Stack inserters remains freezed on waiting for fully grabed on belts which may cause some delay...Got it, thank you!MBas wrote:I must say that only one reason for 4 inserters is just becouse it looks nice
BTW, in question of the optimalization... Cable assembly machine is boosted by 4 beacons and has 4 productivity modules so we have
speed = 100% + 4×50% - 4×15% = 240%
productivity = 140 %
cables per sec = 4 × 1.4 × 2.4 × 1.25 =16.8
and we have 8 advanced circuit assembly machines supported by 6 beacons
speed = 100% + 6×50% - 4×15% = 340%
cables consumption per sec = 4/8 × 3.4 × 1.25 × 8 =17.0
So we have almost the same numbers. As i mentioned, cables assembly produces 16.8/17 = 98.8% of requested amount.
Wow, thank you for your update. This is probably better. It even looks better.huliosh wrote:[Got it, thank you!...
If you use bots can't you surround each assembler with beacons even more?Jackielope wrote:You can get more out of the circuit and cable assemblers while using productivity modules.
Assuming productivity 3 modules, that means you produce 40% more copper cable and green circuits, which means you can feed 40% more red circuit assemblers. 1.4 * 8 = 11.2, so you can feed 11 red circuit assemblers with 1 copper cable assembler and 1 green circuit assembler. And since 1 copper cable assembler with full productivity 3 can almost perfectly produce for 1 green circuit assembler with full productivity 3, you end up with 14 total assemblers: 2 copper cable assemblers, 1 green circuit assembler, and 11 red circuit assemblers.
A bot-based version of that would look something like this:
I haven't worked on a belt version yet. Perhaps the sphere design would work?
It's not entirely correct that functionality is unharmed, as an internal loop effectively cuts belt throughput in half.MBas wrote:I use this kind of output quite plenty. There is no harm on funcionality and it works as illustrative indicator of processing. The measure of "red" on the belt indicates how much is it going. There are dozens of better checks, however this one is just comfortable for me.mrvn wrote:What is the point of looping the advanced circuits?
