The melter has 30% downtimes, I expect to have 66% downtimes.
What is the calculation base?
- The steel furnance has a crafting speed of 2 per second.
- The electric mining drill has a mining speed of 0.5 per second
- The copper plate has a production time of 3.2 seconds
This means, the steel furnance can melt 1.6 (3.2/2) but 3 times the electic minig drill gives 1.5 (3*0.5) ore per second.
What is the calculation base for melting?
Best Answer
Copper has a mining time of 1 second.
Electric mining drill has a mining speed of 0.5.
1/0.5 = 2 seconds per copper ore.
Steel furnace has a crafting speed of 2.
Copper plate has a production time of 3.2 seconds.
3.2/2 = 1.6 seconds per copper plate.
This means that there is 0.4 seconds where the furnace is not on, because the furnace is faster than the mining drill.
Sources:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Copper_ore
https://wiki.factorio.com/Mining
https://wiki.factorio.com/Steel_furnace