inserters and multi requesting chests

[Lothos]

I have an issue I either never noticed before or ran into. I have 2 requester chests set to gather materials for my personal train. 10 items on the one chest and 8 on the other and then hard set slots in the wagon for the items. The issue though is once the wagon is "full" on that item the inserter is still holding onto an item and thus freezes the loading process. Seems stupid that I have to have individual chests for each item just to have a multi loaded wagon. And a 12 item limit sucks.

[Teh Freek]

Long inserters will allow two layers of requester chests, bringing it up to 24 items.

[Lothos]

still stupid the inserter keeps something in its hand or perhaps doesn't realize the target is full before pulling.

[Lothos]

ok, unless i am missing something you cant get 2 rows of chests and inserters all together and hit the wagon. at least not straight

[Medgineer]

if the inserter can grab a larger stack than the train has room for it leaves the rest on the inserter

on 15.x you can limit the stack size of inserter so that it shouldn't have any left.
i.e. stack size 2 can fill 50 or 100 into train with no remainder. stack 4 can't fit into 50(2 left in inserter).

So a smaller stack limit would mean slower load, but should stop leftover items on inserter

Else have 12 requesters per carriage and less differnet items per chest

[Teh Freek]

Yes, you can. Since the wagon is two units wide you can hit it with two rows of long inserters.

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[Lothos]

yeah, took me a few to remember. been playing 18 hours straight :(

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Medgineer:

if the inserter can grab a larger stack than the train has room for it leaves the rest on the inserter

on 15.x you can limit the stack size of inserter so that it shouldn't have any left.
i.e. stack size 2 can fill 50 or 100 into train with no remainder. stack 4 can't fit into 50(2 left in inserter).

So a smaller stack limit would mean slower load, but should stop leftover items on inserter

Else have 12 requesters per carriage and less differnet items per chest

This will fix your problem. .15 added the ability to restrict inserters to only moving one item at a time. If you have a single requester chest and a regular inserter moving from it to a train, click the inserter and override it back down to 1. It will take longer, but these things are unintelligent. Make them move 1 at a time and you will never have a remainder to worry about.