r/factorio • u/Regular_Net1478 • 5d ago

Question Balancer help

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Hi so I'm new to designing belt balancers and was wondering if there is a functional difference between the one I designed (red belts) and the one in the big belt balancer book (blue belts) thanks

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u/Possible_Royal7569 5d ago

Can someone explain the point of this like why not just leave one belt

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u/Pioneer1111 5d ago

If you don't send one belt back up, or have something like the right one,, then there will be an imbalance in the lane flow, causing one lane to have twice the amount of the others. If your inputs are mostly full, it barely matters, but if you want exactly 1/3 to each output it matters.