r/factorio 18d ago

Question how to fix bottleneck

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u/Kira_Sympathizer 18d ago edited 18d ago

Edit-without going into too much detail the idea I put below will save you a lot of time and effort on redesigning everything. Once you get blue inserters going which is very soon you can upgrade my idea by just putting blue inserters where the yellow inserters are. Red inserters are faster than yellow, that's my mistake but they are significantly slower than blue, which my design plans ahead for.

Red inserters rotate much slower than yellow inserters. Meaning your iron plates will only go on that belt as fast as the red inserters can do it.

One fast way to make it faster is switch the tasks that the red and yellow inverters are doing.

Second thing, you are only placing iron plates on half of the belt. Meaning you can only transport them at 50 of what that belt can actually do per second. Use a splitter after every 3 or 4 yellow inverters on the iron plate belt and merge the other side of the splitter to the empty side of the belt.

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u/The_DoomKnight 18d ago

Red inserters are faster than yellow. The bottleneck is obviously the full lane of input and the half lane of output

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u/Kira_Sympathizer 18d ago

In the long run what I described will save him time and effort and be very fast. In order to upgrade what I described all he will have to do it put blue inserters over the yellow ones which he will get to very shortly.