Assembly Machine

[weldon26]

How come my inserter only inserts 3 iron into my assembly machine?

[Cristi]

maybe 3 is max for what you produce
if assembly machine make gun turret for example then the inserter will put 40 iron plate inside

[Troll Norris]

I don't understand your question? It inserts only limited ammount of resouces. Like ammount needed to assembly product and some of them as buffer. And that's all. It saves resouces for other machines this way.

From wiki:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Inserters#Insertion_limits
Automatic insertion limit for assembling machines, furnaces, centrifuges, chemical plants and oil refineries: The ingredients for 1 craft in addition to the ingredients for the number of crafts that can complete during one full inserter swing; but at least the ingredients for 2 crafts and at most the ingredients for 100 crafts

More about that is also here:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=309796#p309796

[schnappkatze]

Why would you want more?

[Jupiter3927]

Inserters will aim to throw in one more than twice whatever the recipe calls for.
If your recipe calls for 1 iron plate, twice that is 2 plates so inserters will cut off at 3 plates.
Check the assembler throwing bullets together and it should top out at 9 iron plates.

[weldon26]

Thanks everybody for the info. Have a good day