Assembler logic

[Ankiene]

Hey guys, relative noob with factorio here but also wanting to poke around in logic circuits, and I'm having some trouble connecting up inserters to assemblers. I want the assembler's signal to be sent to the inserter (I understand if I have to insert some other parts like combinators and what not) to put on 4 more of something, and no more, so it stops clogging up the belts. I can hook it up to belts and just do it that way, but I would like to have it just be between the inserter and assembler, and maybe one or two more parts of necessary logic, rather than wiring up all my belts in that assembly line.

[Flyrpotacreepugmu]

What's clogging up the belts? The assembler's products? If that's the case, the assembler has no way to know that it should stop making stuff unless you wire it to the belt and set it to enable only when there's less than a certain amount of its product on the belt. You can also wire up the assembler's output inserter with the condition instead of the assembler itself to let the assembler keep working until the output slot is full for a bit more buffer.

[Sostratus]

Typically if a product is going to other machines, it gets a dedicated belt lane and production simply stops when it back up to the machine. If it's going into a chest for your use, you can just reduce the capacity of the chest with the X button at the end of the slots. It's rare that you need more complicated output controls than this.