Fluid train throughput issue

[Strawberry SwitchBladee]

We all know how trains will stop outputting/Inputting items when the docking animation is playing, normally you can get around this by outputting into a storage with faster or double belts, however i can't really find a good way to do this for fluid, since none of the fluid storages have more than 2 inputs. Anyone have ideas?

[Sonic Titan]

I mean, if you really need two inputs, use two buffers?

[Strawberry SwitchBladee]

Originally posted by Sonic Titan:

I mean, if you really need two inputs, use two buffers?

Then the ammounts of fluid between the two wont balance as you pull from them

[NocheLuz]

You can use the double buffer. By Double, I mean 2 Industrial Fluid Storage places on each other. You can output 2 pipes to each industrial buffer. If you never use more than 600 m3, you can just use a pipe junction to merge the 2 buffers into one before going to where you'll use it. If you use more than 600m3 you can just use 2 pipes like the normal buffer.

[DaBa]

Just use an industrial buffer, problem solved. I has two entrances, so you can connect each pipe to each entrance and place the buffer slightly higher than the pipe to ensure that it's only used when there is too much in the pipes already.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Deri ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱:

Originally posted by Sonic Titan:

I mean, if you really need two inputs, use two buffers?

Then the ammounts of fluid between the two wont balance as you pull from them

That's not why you use a industrial storage as a buffer for belts on train stations.

You can achieve exactly the same thing by putting a splitter on the input belt and sending it into two storage containers, then sending those into each freight input.

That's effectively all you're doing with fluid wagons if you use a basic fluid storage. You have 2 Mk2 pipes leading into two separate fluid buffers, then you merge the outputs together. The fluid buffers are what provide you the uninterrupted 600m³/min flow during the animation of the train station in exactly the same way the storage containers provide an interrupted belt.