Green circuit layouts

[Nailfoot]

I know we've (mostly) all had our hands in huge, powerful green circuit layouts. I wanted to show the smallest one I have made so far that will compress four blue belts.

I can fit about 2.5 of these in the same space it took my to do the same job previously. I think the key is that it is so small that I can fit a large number of beacons on each assembler. It only takes 4 green circuit assemblers per blue belt, 16 for the whole thing.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149104938

[KatherineOfSky]

Nice!

[Lady Naween]

Looks similar to the standard green circuit one. Cept, cleaner :) Like it.Can the inserters keep up though? I have a stack and a fast per to keep up.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Linda Hartlen:

Looks similar to the standard green circuit one. Cept, cleaner :) Like it.Can the inserters keep up though? I have a stack and a fast per to keep up.

I have ran it at about 9600 green circuits a minute through three trains each of copper/iron and it is fully saturated the whole time.

It uses iron and copper at a 1:1 (or very very close).

I made a misjudgement and needed to move it. Oh, I have so many spare copper wires laying around now, even with the buffers limited!

[Lady Naween]

Nice, I might have done something wrong on mine then. Dammit now you are making me go back and check ^^ *laughs* Yeah moving those things are never fun. I tend to cut off the material inputs and just let them work through what they got to prevent that. Still tons of materials but at least not chest and chest full.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by Linda Hartlen:

...Yeah moving those things are never fun. I tend to cut off the material inputs and just let them work through what they got to prevent that....

With my old desgns, I could cut off the iron and the whole thing would use up its material. With this design, I have learned I need to cut off the copper and just let the iron run till its done. That will eliminate those copper cables in the buffers.

[Lady Naween]

Yeah I use chests for the cables over belts so I need to cut the copper first or I will end up crying.. and likely just reload an autosave ^^ No way I am dealing with that many thousands of cables

[Nailfoot]

Ok. I've been pounding away at this for a couple of hours now. I *THINK* I have everything positioned correctly!

I've already ran it and it is right at 20,000 per minute. In theory the blue belts only support 19,200 a minute but I can't be bothered to turn off every green circuit producer in my entire factory for a proper test!

Nevermind the mess of train tracks on the mini-map. I am upgrading this whole area to a 4 lane system a bit at a time.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149376000

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149376023

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149376072

[Lady Naween]

Looks really good :)

[MisterSpock]

because wire is only with one inserter, you only get 90% of potential speed. But thats ok.
So my excel says for 9600 Green circuits you need 10,39 Green C. Assembler and 11,13 Cable Assembler. But even with 16 Assembler this is very dense.

In my opinion there is no better design. belt based.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by MisterSpock:

because wire is only with one inserter, you only get 90% of potential speed.

You're probably right. But since it compresses the blue belts fully, I guess 90% is good enough. The extra 10% wouldn't be used anyway.

[84rc3]

and this for red :P

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=938203783

[84rc3]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=938198889

[MisterSpock]

I tried with only 6 Assembler per line. But same size:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149730693

[juliejayne]

So nice.... so compact....

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by MisterSpock:

I tried with only 6 Assembler per line. But same size:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1149730693

Yep nice! I see you have some tiny flebs in the line though. I tried 6 as well and couldn't get 100% compression. There was always a fleb in the line every so often.

So, 1 more assembler solved that.