i’m kind of at a loss, splitter calculators crash when i try to use them /:
As suggested already using manifolds with overflow smart splitters is the way I did it when I built a 10 heavy frame factory. The only place that hurt my brain was when I needed to split reinforced plate to 25 end points and there wasn’t enough volume for a manifold to work so I needed balancers and a 5 way balancer broke my brain. Doc in YouTube had the answer which is split into two, then split those two into three and feed one of the six end points into a merger before the split into two. Then the five remaining end points get the same treatment and you end up with 25 end points for heavy plate.
Good luck!
I’m a fan of flow by priority, and use smart splitters to overflow to the next priority. Let the belts balance themselves once production becomes saturated.
how does that work exactly?
Whatever line needs to be up and running first, send full belts. Install smart splitters on those lines and designate an overflow direction. Merge those overflow belts into other belts, rinse and repeat for following belts. It will auto balance once the intakes of the machines fill up, and your material production can keep contributing to active production. Example I found online
Another option is to use the double size storage containers to act as both buffers and automatic mergers/splitters.
Say you have a production that takes 100 ingots /min. If you choose your largest lines you could split each off, 4 productions with the remainder 76.7 left out. You could merge those together. Then the 450s you do the same, and merge all those 50s in. Then you have one (or two lost count) belts of just those remainders left that you could then maximize production with.
I’m a little confused on the exact request here. Do you have those pictured lane rates now, and need to combine/ split them into the ratios above (2000, 300, e.t.c)?
yes, sorry i wasnt clear
If you’d like exact rates, you can use belts of various speeds & smart splitters, eg.:
Need 300, so take a higher belt (eg one of the 455) and smart split off into a mk3 belt (270), and overflow the rest. You should now have a full mk3 270 belt and 185 remaining (overflowed). From that you can smart split into a mk1 (60), and split it in two (30, 30). Take one of those and merge it with the 270 from before and you’ve now got 300, with 125+30 remaining for more siphoning off. Basically, 300=270+60/2.
Similarly, you could do 2000=1200+780+60/3. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
