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8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 6:39 am
by Killcreek2
Both are input/output balanced:
Yellow belts, almost inline,
12x9.
![belt_balance_8-8_[yellow].png](./download/file.php?id=25041)
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Red/blue belts, inline [yay!],
10x8.
![belt_balance_8-8_[red+blue].png](./download/file.php?id=25042)
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I have not yet seen a smaller 8-8 inline design than this red/blue one, so figured that I should share mine.
The space saved by using the longer underneathies in v0.15 is noticeable. Thanks devs.
<edit> Blueprints:
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:06 pm
by lovely_santa
Mine is one space taller, but my OCD wants symetrical splitters... I'll use yours in my 16 (and higher) fractional balancer, nice design
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 2:11 pm
by orzelek
Blueprint strings would be good.
Replicating those by hand will be error prone
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 3:37 pm
by Killcreek2
orzelek wrote:Blueprint strings would be good.
Replicating those by hand will be error prone
Totally forgot to add them.
Added them to the first post.
@lovely_santa: I feel your pain... Please post your 16-16 when it is ready, I would love to see it.
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 4:30 pm
by d4rkpl4y3r
My old inline balancer is 11x8 and works with yellow belts:
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 4:58 pm
by Killcreek2
d4rkpl4y3r wrote:My old inline balancer is 11x8 and works with yellow belts:
Oh, that is clever. How did I miss that one when I looked through your balancer compendium thread?
[The ones In your thread are mostly not inline, & it has a different 8-8 that is shorter but sticks out on one side].
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 7:37 pm
by Laogeodritt
Ooh, nice design! Always nice to save some space on 8-belt balancing.
Have you determined whether it's throughput-unlimited?
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:29 pm
by Killcreek2
Laogeodritt wrote:Ooh, nice design! Always nice to save some space on 8-belt balancing.
Have you determined whether it's throughput-unlimited?
Thanks. It is not throughput unlimited, no. Would need to marry two of them back-to-back [same as most other balancers].
The worst case throughput should be 50%.
You can often avoid requiring unlimited balancers by staggering or interleaving your in/out belts, so output belts going to the same destination are not all drawn from the same few output splitters.
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:38 am
by Laogeodritt
Killcreek2 wrote:Thanks. It is not throughput unlimited, no. Would need to marry two of them back-to-back [same as most other balancers].
The worst case throughput should be 50%.
Mm, all right. For throughput-unlimited applications, I'll stick to the design I'm using now, as it's smaller than two of these in that case. Always good to know the properties of designs before using them. =P
You can often avoid requiring unlimited balancers by staggering or interleaving your in/out belts, so output belts going to the same destination are not all drawn from the same few output splitters.
Ooh, that's a good point—intuitively a lot of the throughput-limited configurations end up being on consecutive belts... Thanks!
Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:40 am
by JohnyDL
Made another improvement Red/Blue compatible, 10x8, and about as light as I can make it
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Re: 8-8 Belt balancers for v0.15+
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:29 pm
by franciscaid
nice design! Always nice to save some space on 8-belt balancing.