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Copper cable can also be used to connect power poles. Select the Copper cable from your inventory, and connect it with a left click to two [[Electric system#Distribution|Electric poles]]. This way, you can manually wire some of the more complex systems, like [[Power production|making steam engines work only when accumulators are empty.]]
Copper cable can also be used to connect power poles. Select the Copper cable from your inventory, and connect it with a left click to two [[Electric system#Distribution|Electric poles]]. This way, you can manually wire some of the more complex systems, like [[Power production|making steam engines work only when accumulators are empty.]]
== Optimization ==
* You can have a maximum of three [[assembling machine 1]] to feed onto the same side of a [[Transport belt]], any more and they won't unload after the third one.
* You can fully load a [[Transport belt]] with six [[assembling machine 1]], three feeding to each side.
* Feeding directly onto the main running belt, the third [[assembling machine 1]] will not achieve full production as it waits for a gap on the belt. Having a spur solves this problem.
==  Ratios ==
Copper wire is used nearly solely for [[Electronic circuit]]s and [[Advanced circuit]]s. Note, that one [[Copper plate]] is needed to craft two wires. This expansion is a problem because belts are normally not able to handle that load.
There are a number of good designs to handle this without belts:
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7323&start=30#p65214 Copper wires on belts]
* [http://s29.postimg.org/bi8xxm6ed/Factorio_Chips.png Circuit production] from [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5050 Endgame designs]
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7568 Cargo wagon sourced RGB circuits production facility]
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7065&start=10 New Player Sandbox factory]


== History ==  
== History ==  

Revision as of 12:01, 17 May 2018

Copper cable

  • Base game
  •  
  • Space Age mod

Recipe

0.5
+
1
2

Total raw

0.5
+
1

Stack size

200

Rocket capacity

4000 (20 stacks)

Prototype type

item

Internal name

copper-cable

Required technologies

Produced by

Consumed by

Copper cables are an intermediate product made from Copper plates. They are very important for manufacturing circuits and electrical connections.

Copper cable can also be used to connect power poles. Select the Copper cable from your inventory, and connect it with a left click to two Electric poles. This way, you can manually wire some of the more complex systems, like making steam engines work only when accumulators are empty.

History

  • 0.12.2:
    • Moved copper wire into the intermediate category in the recipes.