[2.0.28] Legendary inserters are faster than expected
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 5:52 pm
According to my calculations, legendary inserters should make 5..6 swings per second, or use 10..12 ticks per full swing when moving items from chest to chest, depending on the fact do they require a tick to pick up / drop item or not:
In practice, they require 8 ticks to move item from chest to chest, which is estimated 2700°/s or 3600°/s (depending on these 2 extra ticks) and not 2160°/s. Attaching recording of tick-by-tick inserter swing where it's clearly visible they're skipping one tick of rotation and instantly jumping to orthogonal state (and definitely not requiring extra ticks to pick up / drop item). Tested this with other chest-to-chest setups, result is the same -- 8 ticks per full swing.
- 12 ticks per rotation assuming 2 additional ticks are required
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- 10 ticks per rotation assuming additional ticks are not required
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Funny enough, inserters being one tick per half swing faster than expected results in them having exactly the same throughput per unit of spacetime when moving items from chained wagons (aka cursed wagons) as two stacked turbo belts: 124962: [SA] Fastest (and cursiest) ways of transporting items