Yes but it's far from circuit free
I am sorry I am not on the forum often (at all), I also have been playing less factorio these days (I really need to continue my big mod).
If you are interested in the reason why I posted this in the circuit-free designs it's because it really is circuit-free, especially compared to the original sushi belt design.
I used to use that kind of circuitry -- though with a belt feeds on instead -- until I ran across DaveMcW's implementation that only required circuitry on the feed. If it's a loop, you can use what's coming back to tell you what you need to add, after all. At that point all you have to do is wire up as many downstream tiles (plus the tile you feed onto) as you need to account for the proportions, set them to read-hold, and feed that back to a belt segment set to enable if it gets less than X on the desired signal. Structure the lanes so that only one lane is being fed on, and that that lane feeds in on the downstream side of the tile it joins, and you get a very simple, very compact, way to generate sushi belts for whatever purpose is desired.Impatient wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:06 am I use a sushi belt for the lab complex. But instead of creating a compressed mix (and therefore running into problems if there aren't enough of a type of flask), I use combinators to count how many flasks of each type are on the belt.
I use a memory cell with EACH and all inserters putting on the belt count up, all inserters taking from the belt count down the number. A const combinator holds the target number. If the count is below target, the respective inserter is activated.
And that's it. no problems forever after. just needs 1 belt, but all inserters need to be hooked to the two counting wire networks.
While skipping through this thread, I found the idea to use some other item type as placeholder, if a type of flask is not available and the player does not want to use the circuit network, pretty inventive. well thought!
Maybe! I admire your spaghetti twists. Mine just bruteforces it in straight lines.
I like this design a lot, so I made it more compact:
