Green Circuits

[oldschool]

Im new, give it to me strait how bad is this?

https://imgur.com/a/0TE7F1J

[The_Mell]

Side feeding mixed belts into other mixed belts in circuit area will result in screw up.
Use splitters there to keep things on their side.

Mixed belts might not be wise at all as you need a ratio of 3 cables per plate and that's better achieveable with an extra belt for cables - but i'm not sure at moment if this would make a problem in your setup as you feed only 3.x assemblers with 1 belt. (early morning and a cold are not good to remember such things...)

[Zorz]

Originally posted by oldschool:

Im new, give it to me strait how bad is this?

https://imgur.com/a/0TE7F1J

it's ok how u build it.. just post screenshot on steam next time please.. ^^

[oldschool]

Originally posted by The_Mell:

Side feeding mixed belts into other mixed belts in circuit area will result in screw up.
Use splitters there to keep things on their side.

Derp, i didnt even think... the leftovers are goin to get all mixed up

Originally posted by The_Mell:

Mixed belts might not be wise at all as you need a ratio of 3 cables per plate and that's better achieveable with an extra belt for cables - but i'm not sure at moment if this would make a problem in your setup as you feed only 3.x assemblers with 1 belt. (early morning and a cold are not good to remember such things...)

math was in my head, but thought with red belts would be enough supply

Thanks for feedback guys

[knighttemplar1960]

+1 to what has all ready been said and to keep your copper plate (and iron plate for that matter) in better balance you can source from the opposite side of your bus every other set of assemblers and use underground belts to bring the materials under the bus.

[GMC]

Originally posted by Senpai-kun:

Usually what people do is feed copper plates into 3 assemblers, then feed the wires from those assemblers directly into 2 assemblers making green chips.

In this case, "directly" means an inserter takes the wire from the wire assembler and inserts it into the circuit assembler, without any belts in between.

BTW, the 3:2 ratio no longer applies once you start using productivity modules, but that's a late-game thing (with 4x prod-3 modules the ideal ratio is 15:14, but you'd normally just use 1:1; getting a beacon-friendly layout is more important than getting the last 7%).

In general, you should try to avoid putting wire on belts. Each copper plate produces two wires so a belt of wire only has half the throughput of a belt of copper plates (which are turned into wires at their destination). Conversely, it takes two iron plates to produce one iron gear wheel, so one belt of gears (made close to the iron smelters) is worth two of iron.

[oldschool]

Originally posted by GMC:

In general, you should try to avoid putting wire on belts. Each copper plate produces two wires so a belt of wire only has half the throughput of a belt of copper plates (which are turned into wires at their destination). Conversely, it takes two iron plates to produce one iron gear wheel, so one belt of gears (made close to the iron smelters) is worth two of iron.

Ahh that makes alot of sense, didnt think about that

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

On normal cost the standard is 3 copper cable assebmlers feeding 2 green circuit assemblers. On expensive mode its 5 to 1.