Copper cable

Copper cable

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• 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

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.

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 circuits and Advanced circuits. 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:

• Copper wires on belts
• Circuit production from Endgame designs
• Cargo wagon sourced RGB circuits production facility
• New Player Sandbox factory

History

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

• 0.9.2:
  • Introduced