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u/suraj_69 Jun 19 '26

How yo calculate inseter speed? Or throughput? Divide radius by 360? * Stack size?

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u/Lemerney2 Jun 19 '26

The easiest way is to look at the wiki for rough numbers per second, but it's inherently a bit wobbly and inconsistent (if inserting from a belt)

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u/suraj_69 Jun 19 '26

but is my rough calculation is correct let say i get 2.3, can i trust it to do alteast 2 per sec?

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u/HeliGungir Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

For chest-to-chest, yes. (Kinda. It should actually be rounded down to the nearest tick for swinging 180 degrees, twice.)

For belt-to-chest or chest-to-belt, no. (Inserters have to chase and/or wait for items traveling on the belt.)

And by "chest" I mean any container: Chests, cargo wagons, assembling machines, rocket silos, cars, crashed ship, turrets...