#How to go from 3 belts to 2 xd

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native wave
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Fairly new to the game so im just wondering if im doing it correctly in this picture? Each iron belt has 15 miners connected to it. I take all tips thankuu <3

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Fairly new to the game so im just wondering if im doing it correctly in this picture? Each iron belt has 15 miners connected to it. I take all tips thankuu <3

pine cairn
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I don't normally recommend balancers, but...

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+faq balancer

ancient pikeBOT
pine cairn
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Why is it you're compressing it down to 2 belts?

native wave
pine cairn
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Got it. So a balancer is going to give you 2 belts that are each 75% full. Is that what you want, or do you want a full belt going one way and a half belt going the other?

native wave
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yea I want them equally full

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if you input 100% full into the balancer you lose 25%?

pine cairn
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None of your original 3 belts are 100% full

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15 Electric Miners fills 0.5 yellow belts

native wave
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ahh i see

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so yea 75% would be optimal in my case

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the iron vein isnt big enuf for more drills

mental wigeon
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honest balancing is overrated imop
compressing imop is better

pine cairn
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Usually yes, but they want to split evenly between Iron and Steel furnace stacks

native wave
ancient pikeBOT
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Good

the "good" checklist?

1. does it work?
2. does it require no player input?
3. do all the machines work as much of the time as possible?
vocal arrow
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Yours is good enough if uneven draw from the miner belts is ok.
If you want to make it "perfect", this would be a 3:2 balancer:

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can be found in the balancer compilation link in the first bot command

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there's caveat though: miner belts often have imbalanced lanes. a balancer that isn't a lane balancer will not help as much

mental wigeon
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As long as all the inputs flow smoothly it's fine.
I prefer to make sure my interior miners are prioritized because they take the longest to be used up. Making sure it's balanced means it drains the outside quicker and the mine lowers throughput slowly and steadily, the way I prefer is sharper and more sudden but takes longer

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Keep in mind I'm saying prefer

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There's different ways to do things

I like the way I do cause it preserves higher throughput longer and is easier to build

native wave
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thank you all for your responses! I saw the drills had more yield in the middle yea but not sure how to fully utilize that fact yet

vocal arrow
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You can set priority inputs/outputs on splitters.

south hazel
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A 4 to 2 throughput unlimited balancer would work. But it depends on how balanced you want the draw to be.