help balancing a belt

[Proxy]

My Iron production only has one side active, the other is full with iron, that is because down my bus are 2 assemblers that only take from one side of the belt.



as you can see, i already tried a x-2 lane balancer, which usually works, but it doesn't in this case.

I have no idea why and how to balance this.

any ideas?

[Thegermanguy]

I do not understand your problem. Seems fine to me

[Proxy]

on the second pic, the right furnaces stopped working because the left side of the belt is full. but the right side is working.

i used some balancers but it is still backed up only on one side.

[aober93]

Usually that means you produce enough. So there is no problem.

[Selvek]

1) Is there actually a problem here? If the assemblers down the line were short on resources, they would start pulling from the other half of the belt. So is there anything happening that's limiting throughput?

2) If you want to balance the two sides of a belt, you can use a lane balancer: https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancers

[Proxy]

well i'm using my univeral 8-2 lane balancer which also works fine with anything below 8.

and it is not really a problem more like a weird thing, i assumed that if the left side is backed up the spiller would then try to fill up the other side. but it doesn't.

[Selvek]

You have a belt balancer, not a lane balancer. A belt balancer like the one shown here has no path to get items from one lane to the other.

[JimBarracus]

Why do ýou use two output belts instead of one?
When you feed the belt fróm both sides equally you don't have to balance anything.

If your production is starving use red or blue belts
If you have blue belts use more lanes.

[impetus maximus]

try this rebalancer.

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[edit]also i would get rid of the top balancer in your second screenshot.