quick reference sheet?

[Lothos]

I've been looking and have not found one yet, so before i go all calculator and paper I wondered if anyone else had found or made a nice cheat sheet of the maximum machine lines per belt speed? Something like Iron ingots max 30 machines from a single Mk3 belt or something. Would be really helpful for the later game recipes and basically anything involving the chem plants LOL.

[Koro]

I usually calculate it myself.
It's fairly easy.
Let's say it spits out 1 product every 4 second. 4 machines will give you one per second. 4 times 30 then gives you 120 machines per belt.
The assemblers can be perhaps 1 every 2 seconds. So 2 for 1 product per second. 30 times 2 is 60 and then you cut that by 1/3 to for Mark III assemblers and then it's 40 to fill or consume a full belt

[Lothos]

yeah, but some recipes you got to worry about the inputs and not the outputs when it comes to belt speed.

[Double Deez Nuts]

https://factoriolab.github.io/list#s=dsp

[Lothos]

hehe, i hate that one when i play factorio :D

[Lothos]

oh, and that calc is nice if you want to know how many machines to produce X. It does nothing for my original point though of maximum number of machines for an operation per belt.

Chem plants, oil refining, etc that all have funky input or excessive output lines.

[FMAylward]

You can change it from items/m to belt capacity and even select what belt type you are using.

[Lothos]

again, that does NOT tell you only x machines per belt. It reduces the number of machines you need in total to achieve X per belt/sec/min

[FMAylward]

If it it doesn't tell you how many machines to fill a single belt then what is this calculation it is showing? To me that is saying if I want a single belt of circuit boards I need 4 mk1 assembling machines. Maybe its not a full reference sheet but its telling you what you want.
https://factoriolab.github.io/list?z=eJwrCNYy1DJUS.JQK9bSMqtzMq5z8qtzCq1ziqhziqpzyq5zKq5zdqtzdq8LqAuvS6nLriutq1QrMwYA96cTSQ__

[Lothos]

its only showing you the machines per belt from your chosen output. For example, plastic for 1 full belt of plastic output you need 90 chem plants. The problem is you need 3 full belts of refined oil 1 belt of graphite coming in to feed that 90. therefore, its not 90 machines max if your limiting constraint is a single belt whether its an input or an output.

so, for my plastic example. your limit is 30 machines not 90 because of the amount of refined oil being consumed

[FMAylward]

Ah ok I get it now, you want to limit by "most demanding". While its not a direct option you can manually select one of the previous materials to run the calculation off of.

[Lothos]

yeah, thats it...why was that button hidden dammit LOL

[Koro]

Originally posted by lothos:

yeah, but some recipes you got to worry about the inputs and not the outputs when it comes to belt speed.

Calculatations are the same 😀