Help with splitting in to certain amount lines.

[VisualBliss]

Hi, fairly new to satisfactory but have got to nuclear power and made a factory for Electronic control rods.
The factory requires 2500 quickwire PM and i have 4 lines with 630 quickwire PM (20 Over in total) already.

I have been trying to work out a good way of splitting the 4 lines in to 6 lines without using too many smart splitters for overflow but i am having no luck.

Lines need to be:
2 lines at 450 PM each and 4 lines at 400 each

Any help would be appreciated greatly!

[Faustus]

You might use overflows to get it to eventually balance, perhaps direct into three double height containers, or a neater normal splitter option:
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/balancers/detail/index/id/2to3/name/2+to+3

[Maehlice]

You typically don't need exact quantities, but I got you here.

Take one belt and split it off using an overflow splitter into a Mk4 (480 ppm) belt.

Then split that belt into a Mk4 and Mk1.

Choke the Mk1 down to 30 ppm by splitting half of it back to itself.

480 - 30 = 450

Do that twice to get your 450 belts. Merge all the overflow back together.

630 - 480 + 30 = 180.

Split those two new 180 overflow belts two ways. Split also the other 630 belts two ways. Merge each of the two halves.

( 630 / 2 ) + ( 180 / 2 ) = 405

That completes your belts.

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EDIT: That sounds confusing.

630 becomes 480 & 150.

480 becomes 450 & 30.

150 plus 30 becomes 180.

180 becomes 90.

Do twice.

630 becomes 315 & 315.

Do twice.

315 plus 90 becomes 405.

Do quadrice.

[VisualBliss]

Originally posted by Faustus:

You might use overflows to get it to eventually balance, perhaps direct into three double height containers, or a neater normal splitter option:
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/balancers/detail/index/id/2to3/name/2+to+3

Thanks, i did try the full overflow method but i think maybe because it uses the items so fast it struggles to back up properly or could just be the way i did it.

[VisualBliss]

Originally posted by Faustus:

You might use overflows to get it to eventually balance, perhaps direct into three double height containers, or a neater normal splitter option:
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/balancers/detail/index/id/2to3/name/2+to+3

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WOW!! I knew there would be a genius here somewhere ;)
Il give this a go!

Thanks!

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by VisualBliss:

WOW!! I knew there would be a genius here somewhere ;)
Il give this a go!

Thanks!

Nope. Not a genius, but I am kind of good at math.

After thinking about this a little bit more, there is a better and slightly simpler solution. Since the goal is ultimately to siphon off 180 parts from two 630 belts, it's better to just do that directly.

Split a 630 belt in half, then run one of those lines into a splitter. Out of that splitter comes three Mk1 belts. Those three belts then immediately merge back together into a Mark 3 output.

Since the splitter can only push 60 through each of the three outputs, the resulting Mark 3 belt will be the exact 180 we were after.

That method needs no Smart Splitter and uses fewer altogether.

After that, it's all the same as before to redistribute the 180 siphoned parts.

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The choke is the best tool for doing this kind of stuff, because you can create intermediate belt speeds that otherwise don't exist.

[VisualBliss]

Ah i see! I never thought of using certain belts to limit the output. This info will help alot all over the factory.

Thanks.