My Belt balancers

Yttrium · Post by **Yttrium** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:51 am

As some of you might know within factorio is an artform of splitter creations that can evenly divide multiple belts, Balancers!

I'm no mathematician so there wont be any math involved here, smarter people than me can explain how this stuff works, I just want to show my creations.

I'm going to be including a link to the balancer as well as a blueprint string
The last entry is my flagship 16-lane balancer, You can also click here for a picture.

4Balancer

4CornerBalancer

4SymmetricBalancer

8Balancer

8CompactBalancer

8CornerBalancer

16Balancer

Cbrad24 · Post by **Cbrad24** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:04 pm

Looks great! I just need to up my production to the point where I actually use four belts for a single thing now

Yttrium · Post by **Yttrium** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:20 pm

If you're using 3 belts you can always loop one output back to the input, but whatever you do, NEVER block an OUTPUT, this breaks balancers.

thommy · Post by **thommy** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:21 am

Is it possible to just using 2 belts instead of three, then what could be the outcome on these experiment?

Jackalope_Gaming · Post by **Jackalope_Gaming** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:55 pm

thommy wrote:Is it possible to just using 2 belts instead of three, then what could be the outcome on these experiment?

A two belt main bus is trivially balanced with a single splitter.

jhyatt · Post by **jhyatt** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:40 pm

love the designs i have been looking and trying to figure out a 36 to 36 but just cant seem to figure it out. is it possible?

Jackalope_Gaming · Post by **Jackalope_Gaming** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 2:12 am

jhyatt wrote:love the designs i have been looking and trying to figure out a 36 to 36 but just cant seem to figure it out. is it possible?

Powers of 2 are the easiest to do. 36 is not one of those, but 32 is. I have a 32 in the linked thread in my signature if you want to use that, but getting a 36 to work... I'd have to think about that. I've done a 64 so it's possible to just run 28 belts with a loop back to the beginning, but there is definitely a better way to do it that involves fewer belts.

If, in addition to the current splitters that do 2 belts there were splitters that did 3 belts then a 36 would be easy to do. Instead, it takes 4 splitters to get 3 to 3 so it's not so easy.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:20 pm

Cbrad24 wrote:Looks great! I just need to up my production to the point where I actually use four belts for a single thing now

4 belts for a single thing ? wooo.
As a beginner, I need to see such maps to motivate myself

If some one can post such a map, I'd love to see them running.

quinor · Post by **quinor** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:05 pm

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9484 Here you go, but that's only very humble example.

Neotix · Post by **Neotix** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:23 am

To balance one type of items, i'm using this:

4x4 balancer

It split equally not only belts but also belts sides.

binbinhfr · Post by **binbinhfr** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:19 pm

psorek wrote:viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9484 Here you go, but that's only very humble example.

waoo, nice game. Useful for a beginner like me.
Just on this game, I installed the same mods as yours, but the solar panels does not seem to provide electricity on the network : accumulators goes empty quickly and even if the solar panel shows 6MW per unit, there is no electricity send on the network which goes down quickly...

quinor · Post by **quinor** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:18 am

It's an old savegame, I have no idea whether you can make it work.It's probably fixable somehow (there is an error in one of the mods or so) but probably not worth it. Just learn from the setup

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