help

[stark crystal]

stupid question but im really new and need help, how can i split this belt efficiently into 2 belts 1 with only electronic circuits and 1 with only gears

[dull cove]

you can feed the belt into a splitter and filter one side to be gears

[stark crystal]

thanks, didnt realise you can filter splitters

[small sundial]

you don't need a filter on the splitter for this though. just point the underground the right way

I use this technique constantly, especially with recipes that have three ingredients

third ingredient on the inner lane, output final product to the far lane, block the ingredient with a side load onto an underground

[rancid swallow]

Are undergroundies better for UPS? OPs case still needs a splitter to access both lanes.

[wintry frigate]

Yes. Super nice to use when you put the output on the same belt (but other side) than the input of a belt for compact designs. Also useful when you want to put an item on the other size of a belt. But since this case requires a splitter anyways, it doesn't matter too much.

But splitter filters were added a bit later in the game, hence many people are still used to the splitter into underground method for filtering. It kinda stuck around.

[small sundial]

there is an x-y problem in play here

I don't want to derail this into a UPS thread, but yes if UPS is a concern then you should be working hard to delete all splitters

what's not clear to me is what problem is OP trying to solve