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The '''Burner inserter''' is the most basic and slowest type of [[Inserter]]. They are powered by burning [[Fuel]], compared to the more advanced inserters which are powered by [[Electric network|electricity]]. When moving [[fuel]], they will fuel themselves as well, which makes it useful for filling [[Boiler|Boilers]] with [[coal]]. This has the advantage that they will continue working even if the power fails. This is not the case for electrically powered [[inserters]]. While having no drain, they consume vastly more energy than comparable [[Inserters]] when active.
The '''burner inserter''' is the most basic and slowest type of [[inserters]]. It is powered by burning [[fuel]], compared to the more advanced inserters which are powered by [[electric system|electricity]]. It will add fuel to its own supply if it picks any up, which makes it useful for filling [[boiler|boilers]] with [[coal]]. This has the advantage that it will continue working even if the power fails, as opposed to electrically-powered inserters which will be unable to function. It consumes no fuel while idle, though it consumes vastly more energy than most other inserters when active.


Burner inserters sometimes cannot grab moving items from either red belts or blue belts. They also cannot grab moving items from turning belts if the item is on the far side. They however will try to grab things, and consume fuel in their attempts. Eventually, the Burner Inserter will run out of fuel, be unable to refuel itself, and stop working.
A burner inserter sometimes cannot grab moving items from either [[fast transport belt]]s or [[express transport belt]]s. It also cannot grab moving items from turning belts if the item is on the far side. It will try, however, and consume fuel in its attempts.


Even though they don't use electricity, Burner inserters can be linked to and manipulated by the [[logistic network|logistic]] and the [[circuit network]].
Even though it doesn't use electricity, a burner inserter can be connected to and controlled by the [[logistic network|logistic]] and the [[circuit network]].


For more information on mechanics and uses, see [[Inserters]].
== Fuel consumption ==


== Power Comparison ==
A burner inserter consumes no power while idle and does not continuously consume the maximum amount of power when working, so how long fuel lasts can be measured by how many times an inserter can swing back and forth. A burner inserter fueled with coal can swing 57 times, transporting 57 items at a [[inserter capacity bonus (research)|inserter stack size]] of 1, while a piece of wood lasts 28 swings, and solid fuel lasts 178 swings. From these experimental results it can be concluded that 1 MJ of fuel lasts between 14 and 14.25 swings, which is close to the actual number of 70 kJ / 1 swing.
 
A burner inserter consumes (at a rate of 188kW) exactly 1 coal (8.0MJ burner energy) every 42.55 seconds (0.0235 coal/second) when running continuously. In practice, the burner inserter may not run continuously, however burner inserters consume no idle power, therefore 1 coal will last 42.55 seconds of '''run time'''. In this time, a burner inserter will transfer items approximately 25 times. In contrast, a regular [[inserter]] will transfer approximately 256 times using the same amount of coal (through steam power). However, due to the electric energy drain of other inserters, a burner inserter is more coal efficient than a regular inserter if the inserter only operates less than once every 1560 seconds (26 minutes). This makes these burners useful in situations where a boiler-fueled electrical plant is switched off for large amounts of time, acting as a backup power plant. These burners are also useful for automatic recovery from a blackout after fuel starvation of a power plant, since they don't require power to resupply the boilers to get power production going again.


== History ==
== History ==
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* Inserters can now send the item held in hand to the circuit network.
* Inserters can now send the item held in hand to the circuit network.
* Inserters are able to squeeze things ''slightly'' better to belts. more resources.
* Inserters are able to squeeze things ''slightly'' better to belts.
* All types of inserters can be controlled by the circuit and logistic network, once the respective network is researched.
* All types of inserters can be controlled by the circuit and logistic network, once the respective network is researched.
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* Inserters can now extract from Roboports and Beacons.
* Inserters can now extract from roboports and beacons.
* Inserters now take items from right behind them, not from the center of the pickup target entity.}}
* Inserters now take items from right behind them, not from the center of the pickup target entity.}}


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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Transport network]]
* [[Inserters]]
* [[Inserters]]
* [[Inserter experiments]] : Info on throughput
* http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5387&p=41576#p41456
* [http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6850 Burner Inserters: Less polluting than non-burning!?]


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Revision as of 09:51, 19 July 2021

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Burner inserter

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Recipe

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Total raw

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Recipe

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Map color

Health

100

Resistances

Fire: 0/90%

Stack size

50

Dimensions

1×1

Energy consumption

94 kW (burner)

Mining time

0.1

Prototype type

inserter

Internal name

burner-inserter

Required technologies

None required

Boosting technologies

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Produced by

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Valid fuel

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The burner inserter is the most basic and slowest type of inserters. It is powered by burning fuel, compared to the more advanced inserters which are powered by electricity. It will add fuel to its own supply if it picks any up, which makes it useful for filling boilers with coal. This has the advantage that it will continue working even if the power fails, as opposed to electrically-powered inserters which will be unable to function. It consumes no fuel while idle, though it consumes vastly more energy than most other inserters when active.

A burner inserter sometimes cannot grab moving items from either fast transport belts or express transport belts. It also cannot grab moving items from turning belts if the item is on the far side. It will try, however, and consume fuel in its attempts.

Even though it doesn't use electricity, a burner inserter can be connected to and controlled by the logistic and the circuit network.

Fuel consumption

A burner inserter consumes no power while idle and does not continuously consume the maximum amount of power when working, so how long fuel lasts can be measured by how many times an inserter can swing back and forth. A burner inserter fueled with coal can swing 57 times, transporting 57 items at a inserter stack size of 1, while a piece of wood lasts 28 swings, and solid fuel lasts 178 swings. From these experimental results it can be concluded that 1 MJ of fuel lasts between 14 and 14.25 swings, which is close to the actual number of 70 kJ / 1 swing.

History

  • 0.13.2:
    • Inserters connected to the circuit network now have the option to only read hand contents.
  • 0.13.0:
    • Inserters can now send the item held in hand to the circuit network.
    • Inserters are able to squeeze things slightly better to belts.
    • All types of inserters can be controlled by the circuit and logistic network, once the respective network is researched.
  • 0.12.16:
    • Improved burner inserter's fuel searching logic; it will now search both transport belt lines for fuel
  • 0.12.11:
    • Burner inserter now grabs fuel for itself even if the target doesn't need it
  • 0.12.2:
    • Inserters will never take more than the max stack size of an item.
    • Inserters and logistic robots no longer extract from enemy chests
    • Inserters now correctly pick up items from splitters
  • 0.12.1:
    • Burner inserters start with enough energy to pick up 1 item and fuel themselves.
  • 0.12.0:
    • Inserters can now extract from roboports and beacons.
    • Inserters now take items from right behind them, not from the center of the pickup target entity.
  • 0.9.2:
    • Inserters can have arbitrary pickup and insert positions.
  • 0.9.0:
    • Inserter code optimisation, inserters that have nothing to do will sleep.
  • 0.8.0:
    • Improved inserter's ability to pull from train wagons.
  • 0.7.1:
    • Fast inserter now has the same speed as the smart inserter.
  • 0.5.0:
    • Inserter can now pick up up to 5 items when researched.
  • 0.4.0:
    • Smaller inserter bounding box
  • 0.3.0:
    • New Inserter graphics
  • 0.2.1:
    • The item in the hand of the inserter is returned to the player when mined.
  • 0.2.0:
    • Show direction of inserter

See also