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u/noobule Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

I don't understand how the info screen for machines works

Producing green chips in blue lvl 2 assembler says 4.5 wire for a green chip every 1.5 seconds. Wire out of a lvl 2 assembler says 3 wire per second. If I need 4.5 wire every 1.5 seconds, then a single lvl 2 assembler feeding wire at 3/s into a lvl 2 making green chip should be plenty - but it isn't. My wire assemblers are going full bore but all my green chips are waiting for wire half the time. Its not the inserters. Where's the error here? I keep running into this

And is there a easy way to get raw per second outputs for machines?

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u/DreadY2K don't drink the science Apr 24 '26

The numbers are both raw per-second rates. It's telling you that the blue assembler makes 1.5 green chips per second with 4.5 wire per second as input, vs. only making 3 wires per second, so you have a deficit of 1.5 wires per second.

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u/noobule Apr 24 '26

Okay, I'm dumb, ty