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help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:07 pm
by Proxy
My Iron production only has one side active, the other is full with iron, that is because down my bus are 2 assemblers that only take from one side of the belt.
as you can see, i already tried a x-2 lane balancer, which usually works, but it doesn't in this case.
I have no idea why and how to balance this.
any ideas?
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:24 pm
by Thegermanguy
I do not understand your problem. Seems fine to me
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:03 pm
by Proxy
on the second pic, the right furnaces stopped working because the left side of the belt is full. but the right side is working.
i used some balancers but it is still backed up only on one side.
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:04 pm
by aober93
Usually that means you produce enough. So there is no problem.
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:06 pm
by Selvek
1) Is there actually a problem here? If the assemblers down the line were short on resources, they would start pulling from the other half of the belt. So is there anything happening that's limiting throughput?
2) If you want to balance the two sides of a belt, you can use a lane balancer:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancers
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:09 pm
by Proxy
well i'm using my univeral 8-2 lane balancer which also works fine with anything below 8.
and it is not really a problem more like a weird thing, i assumed that if the left side is backed up the spiller would then try to fill up the other side. but it doesn't.
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:12 pm
by Selvek
You have a belt balancer, not a lane balancer. A belt balancer like the one shown here has no path to get items from one lane to the other.
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:23 am
by JimBarracus
Why do ýou use two output belts instead of one?
When you feed the belt fróm both sides equally you don't have to balance anything.
If your production is starving use red or blue belts
If you have blue belts use more lanes.
Re: help balancing a belt
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:29 am
by impetus maximus
try this rebalancer.
- 2.belt.rebalance.png (39.78 KiB) Viewed 3983 times
[edit]also i would get rid of the top balancer in your second screenshot.