grave stirrup
I made a load balancer for my buffer/train unloader thingy. works great. I end up with one belt, full on both sides.
However, the assemblers further along are not mirrored on both sides of the belt - so one side of the belt is emptied faster than the other. Any ideas on how to keep the load balanced with unbalanced inserters pulling from it?
limpid goblet
Most of the time it isn't an issue
If you have a really large throughput discrepancy it can cause issues, but it can be ignored
glacial mason
yeah this ^^
are you actually having issues with the train unloading because of the belts being used unevenly?
if this is the case, you can actually add balancers that balance both lanes of the belt to prevent this from happening, but in the majority of cases it's not needed
limpid goblet
It's called a lane balancer
grave stirrup
are you actually having issues with the train unloading because of the belts bei...
Yes, one car of the train gets stuck with too much cargo. happening at multiple stations, so I'm trying to figure out a solution
glacial mason
in that case like cryochick said, look for a lane balancer for the number of belts you have (they don't exist for all belt configurations tho i don't think, so you have to combine different ones if needed)
the raynquist balancer blueprint book is one you can find online, it'll have many in there, including a lane balancer for single lanes which i assume is what you'd want here since you said it's one belt going to assemblers
limpid goblet
Yes, one car of the train gets stuck with too much cargo. happening at multiple ...
A lane balancer likely wouldn't help that if youre using a more typical unloader
What does your station look like?
grave stirrup
interesting
limpid goblet
You CAN use a chest or similar to balance but it has to be ONE
I'd also heavily recommend against using massive chests often, they can be very UPS intensive
grave stirrup
so I should just be buffering with a single steel chest at most?
limpid goblet
A single steel chest is tiny
grave stirrup
indeed
limpid goblet
The laggy part is these inventories tend to be massive and the game doesn't like massive inventories
Also a steel chest isn't enough to balance off of
grave stirrup
thank you for all the info. I really appreciate it. back to the drawing board (and youtube videos)
limpid goblet
What you can do here
Use a normal chest buffer
Just balance 2 wagons together with a splitter then balance the other 2
Take those 2 streams into a third splitter
Then you have 2 half belts coming out of it
Sideload one of those two halves and you have 1 belt
grave stirrup
makes sense
