Another Factorio tutorial, this time showing how to move 3 belts into 2 in a balanced fashion.
In the cases where you need to reduce 3 belts to 2, and you want all three feeder belts to be drawn from equally, use this design detailed in our most recent video. If all three belts are carrying two different items, segregated into left and right lanes, this balancer will not disturb their segregation.
Here is our Factorio tutorial showing how to build a 3 to 1 belt balancer that reduces the number of belts used while drawing an even amount from each incoming belt.
This 3 to 1 belt balancer is particularly useful at train depots, as two of them are sufficient to provide egress for all 6 inserters capable of unloading from one side of a single train car. If you are carrying two items on each belt, each segregated into their own lane, this belt balancer will keep those items separate in the same lanes after they’re combined into 1.
This Factorio tutorial covers the building of a balanced 2 to 7 belt splitter.
This splitter, which has questionable usefulness, evenly divides 2 belts worth of incoming items into 7 outgoing belts. If each belt is carrying two different items, each segregated to their own left or right lane, this balancer will ensure they maintain that segregation after being sorted into the 7 outgoing lanes.
This Factorio tutorial demonstrates how to build a balanced 2 to 6 belt splitter.
This belt balancer is very useful at train depots. Each train car can only be accessed by 6 inserters from each side, so a 1 to 6 or 2 to 6 belt splitter is often needed. This design shows you how to build such a splitter that provides an equal amount of items to each of the outgoing 6 belts. Providing an equal amount ensures that all your inserters are able to work for the same amount of time, decreasing the amount of time your trains have to wait in the depot to be loaded.
This Factorio tutorial shows how to evenly split 2 belts into 5 balanced outgoing belts.
Occasionally you’ll have two belts full of an item and you’ll want to split it into 5 outgoing belts that all receive an equal amount of items. This Factorio tutorial describes two methods of achieving this and details the inner workings of the mechanisms used.
This video shows how to split two belts into 3 balanced belts.
This Factorio tutorial demonstrates how to split 2 belts into 3 outgoing belts in a balanced fashion, rather than just leaving a single belt alone while splitting a second 50/50. This technique can be useful for evenly loading buffer chests at a train depot, since a train car can only be reached by 6 inserters per side.
Here are a few Factorio 0.15 x designs to split 2 incoming belts into 1, 2, or 4 balanced outgoing belts.
These belt balancers ensure that an even amount of items are taken from the feeder belts before they are distributed to the exit belts. These three designs are all very simple, so we’ve combined them into a single video.
Our Factorio video showing how to split one belt into 7 belts with a balanced output.
This 1 to 7 belt splitter evenly distributes the incoming belt to the 7 outgoing belts. If you have multiple items on your feeder belt, one on each side, this splitter will maintain that item segregation after they have been split into 7 belts.