how many biomass burners to 1 convayer?

[Abomination]

so after just discovering i can connect convayers to biomass burners, does anyone know the ratio of burners to belts? i got 8 going so far

[Tera]

It depends of the belt speed and item you are burning. If you are burning biomass you can supply 6 with a MK1 belt, and 12 with a MK2 belt.

To calculate it open the biomass burner and click on the flashing fuel icon where you would put the biomass, record the burn rate number of the item you plan to burn. Now take the speed of the belt you plan to use (MK1 = 60, MK2 = 120, MK3 = 270, etc) and divide them so a MK1 belt feeding biomass will be 60 / 10 = 6 burners.

Also use balancers to optimize how you feed your burners.

[aY227]

6 with biomass but they don't work like other plants - they only burn what they need so it can be more.
Otherwise fuse would go off if no other power suppply.

Generally build like 10 and go coal.

[Fenix]

depends on what you are feeding it.
leaves 120/m = 1 burner on mk2 belt
wood 18/m = 3.33 Burners on a mk1 or 6.67 Burners on a mk2
Biomass 10/m = 6 on a mk1, 12 on a mk2
Solid Biomass 4/m = 15 on mk1, 30 on a mk2

[Dirtyshadow]

Since materials are recovered from dismantling, you don't have to be conservative... and its early game and most players won't understand power requirements or want to panic with blown fuses... so just build lots.

Since biomass burners burn based on demand, and biomass is manually harvested, I thought a load balanced approach would be best... so I used 1 splitter > 3 splitters > 9 burners.

[Fenix]

I see no need to load balance them
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3337281994
A container to a smart splitter (or 2 containers before unlocking the smart splitter)
Two constructor making Biomass, into a merger to the constructor making solid biomass, was enough to power my 6 burners easily until coal.

[Bobucles]

The burner tells you how many biomass it burns at peak. Design around peak, burners use on demand but you want them to be stable at max output.

Then open the search thingy (n?), type in your belt rate, a big slash "/" then the number of the hunger rate. There ya go, easy in game calculator.