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1. Am i right in thinking that red and green wires have identical functions and the purpose of having the two colours is so that one device (inserter or chest) can participate in two distinct networks if required. Red and green wires could be thought of as two channels, in other words.

2. Am i right in thinking that because you must use a provider, requester or storage chest to connect to a circuit network (a steel chest for example will not work), the logistics system will also "know" about the chests contents, therefore you cannot actually disconnect a circuit network system from the logistics system

3. Am i right in thinking that the main use of the red/green wire circuit networks is to add logic to high volume production lines where you do not want logistics robots involved because of their relative slowness etc.

4. Am i right in thinking it is wise to keep red and green circuit networks as simple as possible because a) debugging them is hard, b) repairing them is hard, and c) changing/improving an assembly line using them is hard.

1) Yes. If you connect one smart inserter via red and green wires it would work on any of two condition like gate OR.
2) You can use smart chest to disconnect it from logistics.

1. Yes they function identically. No, sometimes I use them in the same network to address different conditions that I want to check (ex. red wire - chest has more than 1000 stone AND green wire chest has less than 100 walls - operate inserter into wall assembler). - Note, they work as an AND gate, not OR.

2. Circuit networks and logistic networks do not currently cross over. They can "read" information about chests they are connected to. For wired chests, the connection is direct and graphic. For logistics, the connection is "wireless" and based on the coverage zone from the roboports. A red circuit can be connected between local storage and a distant outpost storage and will "read" how much material is contained at both locations. The local logistics network will only "read" how much is stored locally.

3. There are many reasons. The logistics network can also be though of as a local circuit connection to add as an inserter condition (ex. if logistics network has less than 50 laser turrets - operate inserter that places laser turrets from the assembler into storage.

4. Absolutely not! If you want simple, go play pac man! Here are some links to fun that can be had with over complication:

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ing#p36904
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ogic+gates
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... tes#p34444
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ate#p35908


Thoughts about the future - https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ogic+gates

hitzu wrote: 2) You can use smart chest to disconnect it from logistics.

Rephrased:
You can also use smart chests for ccNet.
PS: Smart chests don't participate in the logistic network

Thanks for the clarifications, especially the idea that a smart chest is not used in the logistics network, that one had eluded me until now.

Links that might help:
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ic_control
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... /Smart_bus
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... it_network
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ic_network