Another stupid question [Answered]

[Huskiz]

With inserters i have found that they only place 5 in a furnace at once. any way to get them not to do that??? its driving me crazy

[Nirahiel]

What do you want exactly ? Put only 1 in the furnace or put max stack ?
Either way, the inserter won't do it. Because it's how they work.

[-root]

This is usual. All inserters will throw an amoutn of the raw product into a furnace or assembler and stop when it hits that amount. They will never fill it up all the way.

If you want that to stop, come up with a system that controls the supply so that it only works 1 at a time.

[Huskiz]

Thanks guys i think ill stick with just making more furnaces

[Mangledpork]

It's because if a furnace filled up entirely with ore, and you had a line of 5 furnaces, you would have only 1 going for ages until you final filled it, and the next furnace would start filling. It would take forever for production to get gong.

[doulos05]

Also note, extra fuel doesn't make them burn any faster, just longer. If you've got enough automation to have inserters feeding furnaces, you probably have a steady source of coal which means you don't need it to store more than 5 because you shouldn't have any shortages that aren't caused by a lack of coal, in which case you need more miners, not more fuel in the furnaces.

[Ca_Putt]

Thanks guys i think ill stick with just making more furnaces

I think you have just grasped a core concept of Factorio