Requesting new Building: Conveyor Storage (use mentioned in description)

[ArunPrasath]

Need a building which will receive conveyor items, store it, and output it in its output port; similar to Water Reservoir and Gas Storage buildings.

Use: we have Tonnes of regolith and sand coming from space biome. When dirt arrives, its filtered using conveyor filters and sent to cooling chambers for feeding to Sleet Wheat Farms. 

Issue is primarily in having receptacle, auto sweeper moving it to a storage, then autostorage moving it to conveyor loader to load it back. it wastes power substantially. Having a conveyor storage will drastically help in this. it prevents belt getting stuck due to too much items waiting to be delivered in it.

Similar 20 ton storage is requested. 

 

[pnambic]

I like the idea of a "conveyor reservoir" as a buffer.

However, your particular use case can be solved with a conveyor chute and two loaders. Dump incoming materials on the floor, have a loader for dirt and a loader for everything else, let an autosweeper fill those. It's cheaper than using conveyor filters, and the incoming line will never back up.

[ArunPrasath]

3 hours ago, pnambic said:

I like the idea of a "conveyor reservoir" as a buffer.

However, your particular use case can be solved with a conveyor chute and two loaders. Dump incoming materials on the floor, have a loader for dirt and a loader for everything else, let an autosweeper fill those. It's cheaper than using conveyor filters, and the incoming line will never back up.

I mentioned this in my post as well - this will require power to do this. Suggestion was to avoid this 

[pnambic]

12 minutes ago, ArunPrasath said:

I mentioned this in my post as well - this will require power to do this. Suggestion was to avoid this 

I misunderstood you, then, my apologies (conveyor receptacles and conveyor chutes are different things, and there are no storages involved in the chute-based solution).

In any case, the type of solution I suggested/you mentioned allows you to remove the conveyor filters, which should save equivalent amounts of power.