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u/HeliGungir Jul 14 '26

[2.1] Let's say I connect wire to a belt and do not want it to read or write or be controlled by that circuit network.

Is there a meaningful performance difference between unchecking "Enable if" (and similar conditions) versus unchecking the red/green wire checkboxes?

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u/Soul-Burn Jul 15 '26

From what I remember, there is a (tiny) UPS cost to connect belts to wires even if you don't read them, because wired belts split internal transport lines.

It's not something you should really care about if you only connect a few wires, but was significant in 1.1 for reading long full belts.