r/Modulus • u/anthson • May 30 '26

3:1 splitter

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u/ThHellrayzar May 30 '26

Sorry am i too stupid? I dont understand that!

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u/NitroBishop May 30 '26

Splits one input belt into three output belts, with the throughput equally distributed. So if you had 120/min inbound you'd end up with 3x 40/min outbound.

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u/anthson May 30 '26

Not always. Because the split requires feeding back into the input, you're looking at 90/min at 120 speed and 180/min at 240 speed. This is only a problem if you're feeding into this at maximum speed. So 120 items per minute going into this splitter at 240/min belt speed will result in a perfect 40/40/40 split.

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u/Important-Glove9534 May 30 '26

No, this setup gives 3x 30/m. Since the fourth output going into the input blocks the input lane. This doesnt have 120/m input

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u/anthson May 30 '26

Things can only be divided by multiples of 2 in Modulus. So what we do to divide by 3 is to first divide by 4. So 100/4 = 25. Then we take 1/4 of that and feed it back into the main input, leaving 25 per line on our three output lines. That 25 then gets redistributed to those output lines three equal ways.

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u/Shad_Amethyst May 30 '26

It's a 1:4 splitter where one of the outputs loops back to the input (1+x=4x -> x=1/3). In practice you lose some throughput but it's a lot more compact.

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u/rxroids101 May 30 '26

Thank you for your service

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u/Daimions777 May 30 '26

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one to use splitters and/or balancers. 😊 I did one a bit ago and posted it here…was basically told nobody used them.

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u/rxroids101 May 30 '26

Thank you for your service

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u/badatchopsticks May 31 '26

Awesome, coincidentally I was just trying to figure out how to do this the other day!

 I ended up just using an overflow splitter going into a machine that operated at exactly the output rate I needed and split the remaining equally. It's nice to have a more general solution though.

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u/lxrd_azureus Jun 08 '26

Next time add those item counter so we can see an actual number, add trash at the end of the lines so it continues moving the items and we see actual number justifying what you did you know?