I can tell you why using a combinator setup is especially in this tricky situation (the process takes the same stuff as raw material as it puts out) essential:MeduSalem wrote:I really don't know why people are insisting on using combinators with the Kovarex Enrichment... it's totally do-able without using any combinators at all. The setup from the youtube video above wastes like 50% of the space just for the weird combinator setup.
Here in this thread are a lot of setups that are fine doing without (though some Circuit Network conditions on inserters): viewtopic.php?f=208&t=45528
And if one is abusing a priority setup (where the order in which items are added onto a belt matters) then it's completely do-able without any circuit network stuff just by relying on the good old belt tricks.
To pull material out of a module only to check its content and fill it back in immediately after is simply bad design.
´Factorio deserves better then this cutting corner approach - and I'm myself a math illiterate, still I prefer to learn to understand combinator setups to lame "solutions"