Belt Balancers - Factorio - Tips and Tricks in 10 minutes

4 to 4 balancer:

8 to 8 balancer:

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[ulicqueldromal]

I like that you explain the logic behind it. I have myself been thinking that the 4x4 balancer had two balancers two much, although I also wasn't dumb enough to believe that I know more than most of the factorio community and just assumed I didn't understand why. Thanks for the explanation.
Sadly I must say it feels like you drag the video out longer than necessary just to crack that magic 10 min mark which makes it a bit of a drag to watch :/

[benjiiano]

Because you grabbed a BP and started using it wrong, doesn't mean the balancer is working incorrectly.
The last one is OBVIOUSLY 50% throughput and DESIGNED that way, as you are going from 4 to 2 lanes in the pass over. That does not require testing but just common sence.

I see this happen a lot, people blaming blueprints (that they grabbed of the internet or wherever themselves) for not working right while they are the ones that are implementing them wrong.

[movaxh]

About this nice 8-8 balancer that is not perfect. What happens if you connect two of them in the series? You can stack them very close to each other and even overlap input-output splitter in the middle where they join as they do the same thing, so it will not cost 2x but maybe 1.8x only. It will not improve the ultimate throughput limit but can mix things a bit better.

[chancecarter]

Exectly the explanation I was looking for. Thank you

[cellfire]

that is nice to know. I have the same problem with my 8 lane balancer doing that.

Do you have blueprint string for that 8 belt one?

[JW-wrep]

Is this still all still valid? I only ask because I recall that Factorio redid splitters, but I don't recall specifically how?

[Otamega]

I didn't get it... like, what is that doing? oh well, guess I'll play the dumb way and figure it out.

[Napoleon_Blownapart]

Jesus Christ, you need some exercise.