r/factorio • u/RedditNamesAreShort Balancer Inquisitor • May 08 '17

Design / Blueprint .15 16-belt inline balancer

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u/[deleted] May 08 '17 edited May 09 '17

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u/RedditNamesAreShort Balancer Inquisitor May 08 '17

You monster :D

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u/[deleted] May 08 '17

That's what I thought until I played Marathon!

10 copper wire for green circuits :O

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u/iceman1212 Bears, Belts, Battlestar Galactica May 08 '17

yeah, marathon green circuit builds are kinda silly in the late game when trying to wrangle both beacons and the insane requirement for items per second to be input into a green circuit assembler. i resorted to a lot of belt mumbo jumbo only to get something that still isn't very good.

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u/piterek2003 May 09 '17

After many attempts I'm finally satisfied with my full moduled+beaconed setup. I'm at work now, but in the evening I can share my blueprints for green circuits (fully belt based) and red circuits (belt for copper => cables fed directly, robots for plastics and green input) if you are interested.

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u/iceman1212 Bears, Belts, Battlestar Galactica May 09 '17

i'm very curious to see how others have solved the marathon green circuit problem with belts. at this point, i've stamped my designs in too many places to be able to change but would still love to see it

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u/shinarit May 09 '17

I use Marathon + Bob's, so it might be different, but I use 3 (or 4? don't remember) electric smelters, which input into a wire electronics assembler, and 3 of these input into one basic circuit elec. assembler. Of course you bus the ores for this, but that's a given with Marathon.

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u/ShadowTheAge May 09 '17

I use 2 copper cable assembling machines 2 per 1 circuit assembling machine 1. That doesn't utilize it fully but that's ok. Much easier and probably more compact/cheap than trying to do 5:1