Balancing belts

[violet sparrow]

Hey, could anyone help me balancing this out? trying to make sure all outputs are 15/s, copied the balancer randomly not really sure how it works behind the scenes :0

[urban spoke]

mines are notoriously hard to get perfect numbers for. Not only can you research productivity bonuses, as the mine tiles start to run out, they will no longer output

[tame mortar]

I do not think this is possible given the number of mines. Either you have a lot of productivity research, speed modules in the mines, or there are not enough mines. Given you are using yellow belt as opposed to blue I guessing not enough mines...

Anyway the solution would be to use a 5 to 4 balancer, such as those found in Rayquist's balancer blueprint. Each column of miners goes into one of the inputs.

[violet sparrow]

Will try to find the bp thanks just a newbie placing random stuff haha :)

[cyan kelp]

Without mining productivity and speed modules, it's 30 miners for 1 yellow belt

[violet sparrow]

Yeah i know was just curious if i cud balance it all when it was random amount of miners :p

[little sapphire]

You won't be able to fill four belts - looks like you have 115 miners there - but 5-4 balancers do exist. Personally though I'd just use priority splitters to stuff it all into as few lanes as possible without worrying about actual balance: most of the time, balancing isn't all that helpful

[tame mortar]

Balancing is helpful if you plan to load te ore onto a train. Since then each wagon receives the same amount.

[violet sparrow]

My plan was to make 24 furnace setups with each lane

Guess i can just use a few less

[urban spoke]

a balancner at trains makes sense just for fast loading of trains, but otherwise I use a splitter like this that basically just condenses things to full belts

just push everything over and if it's not enough output belts, you can add a 3rd belt on top until you get a partial belt

[violet sparrow]

Wdym with partial belt? and ty seems like something that wud work

No clue why it works but haha :D

[boreal abyss]

Also look at lanes. Sometimes one lane fills but the other doesn't. When it matters, I put a lane balancer on each belt before the belt balancer, rather than using a much larger and fancier one that does both lane and belt balancing. It rarely matters for mining.

[urban spoke]

the only reason to balance going onto a train is because if the chests all have the same amount, it loads faster, and trains also unload faster if all the chests are emptied at the same rate

otherwise, it's not really necessary to balance when you can use input and output priorities to condence your belts