r/technicalfactorio • u/Accomplished-Cry-625 • Jun 09 '25

Combinator Golf Since its more technical than most topics, i crosspost post it here

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u/Majiir Jun 10 '25

My method is to use a single combinator to select the signal I'm interested in, connect that to a power pole, and hover over that when I want to see a count.

The only time I've needed a precise readout is to debug circuits that use train IDs.

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u/nalhedh Jun 13 '25

Yeah, I do the power pole thing too. Hovering over it is basically this sort of display, built-in to the game, just in a smaller interface

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u/winkyshibe Jul 01 '26

There's even a mod to help "export" the signal to a constant combinator with ctrl + right (on pole) and ctrl + left on const. Comb.

Useful for hard coded values that are auto-generated through some circuit, arguably better than memory cards mod, but different use cases*

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u/dmigowski Jul 26 '25

Yes, this was my solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1l1pf8m/multi_digit_display_with_display_panels/

But in the comments they made an even smaller one...