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(Obsolete) Drills Balancer

This script will distribute ore evenly between all drills or selected group of drills on your ship.

This script is designed to allow you to mine longer before returning to base. It comes into play when all your cargo containers are full and any additional ore is stored in drills. It prevents drills to become full while others have plenty of capacity left.



Please, use
Resource Exchanger 2
instead



Install the script on your mining ship and run this script once per second (use a timer block to do this).

Important notes:

0. Currently this script is outdated. It is recommended to use a newer one: Resource Exchanger 2.
Resource Exchanger does the same as this script and even more and also does it better.
Of course Drills Balancer is still working well.

1. Make sure that all drills are connected to each other. The script will detect if they are not.

2. Drills with disabled option "Use conveyor system" are excluded from balancing process.

3. Please do not place any filters between drills. The script does not take them into account and something may go wrong.

4. There is a built-in system that will tell you how much free space remains in the drills.
In order to use it you have to place some interior lights or spotlight on your ship and add them into group called "Payload indicators" (you can change the group name in the script's code at line 23).
The lights will change color into one of the following:
Green - All drills are connected to each other and they are empty.
Yellow - Drills are full in a half.
Red - Drills are almost full.
Purple - Less than 3,000 l. of free space left (you can change that amount at line 30).
Cyan - Some drills are not connected to each other (this is an error state).

5. Setting DRILLS_GROUP to a group that contains blocks other than drills will not cause any errors. Blocks that are not drills will be simply ommited during balancing.

Try out my other script: Reactors Balancer
It will exchange uranium between your reactors.