balancer book (fall 2025)
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Book Contents
- What's with the [item=deconstruction-planner] filter?
- Why does the 4-4 have two extra splitters at the end?
- What does TU mean?
- What does L mean?
- Don't splitters already balance lanes?
- Why not just use a splitter then sideload the 2 belts onto 1 belt to balance lanes?
- Why do the lane balancers only balance half the lanes?
- Isn't the 2-2 lane balancer TU?
- Why is the balancer not mixing the items?
- Why don't you take the 4-4 TU balancer and omit one input and/or output to make a smaller balancer?
- Where can I find the latest version of this book?
- How do I make my own balancers?
- Basic balancing theory
- Basic lane balancing theory
- Basic TU balancing theory
- Basic n-m TU balancing theory
- Balancer verifiers
- Advanced techniques
- Emergent sub-balancer substitution
- Sub-tree merge
- Loopback substitution
- Equal belt substitution
- Re-balance substitution
- Complete the square
- Complete the square (cont.)
- Complete the rectangle
- Sub-graph substitution
- Deferred loopback
- Upsize then balance
- Input priority for TU 1-n
- Custom TU solutions
- Balancer layout generator