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Clob

I made a T shaped 8-4 balancer

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I was using the 8-4 balancer in the wiki, but I didn't like that the output was limited based on the input. If I didn't have all of the 8 belts somewhat saturated, the output was not even. If I only have 4 of the belts going in, only two belts would come out. That's a bit inflexible.

I knew that the typical 4-4 balancer was great, so I took three, put them in a T shape and combined them. Now I have this funky 8-4 balancer that even distributes to the output regardless of the input.

!blueprint https://pastebin.com/EcJSXb33

The reason I made it is because I had an odd ore patch where I had a bunch of partial belts coming out of it to a train and I didn't want to count miners, and route all the belts to get four perfectly compressed belts.

Can anyone make it better? I kind of like it as is because I made it.

Posted Mar 31, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

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ClobOP•

In case the bot can't read the OP

!blueprint https://pastebin.com/EcJSXb33

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barackstar•

i've had fairly good luck just using priority outputs on a splitter chain.

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ClobOP•

Yeah, I've tried doing that too, but I don't like it much. I just wanted the simplicity of feeding everything into a single balancer and most early game ore patches are about right for that.

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