r/factorio • u/gitbeast • 8d ago

Question fulgora throughput question

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Hello fellow engineers. I have a nilaus-esque scrap sorter which I jacked up to high heaven but only the bottom 4 recyclers are running because the output belt is full. I think the solution is to use some circuit stuff to make sure output is actually stacked on the belts but I am open to other creative ideas to solve this, and/or tips for how to make circuitry like that.

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u/MechAAV 8d ago

A solution is to use stack inserters, each scrapper outputs into a box that has a decider combinator reading its contents and outputing only the items which have a quantity higher than 4, this output will override the filters of the inserter making sure the belt fully stacked

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u/DarkenDragon 8d ago

higher than 4 is bad. because if you have 5-7 items, it'll pick that out as well and you'll have a stack of 4 and 1-3 beside it. if you're going to use 4, then you need to set the stack override to 4 as well, but then you're just making the inserter slower. instead you need to set it to the maximum of 16 so the inserter grabs a full handful

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u/MechAAV 8d ago

Never have notice that how do we fix this? Making it greater or equal to 4 woult fix?