Delay Conveyor Question

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Delay Conveyor Question

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I have had some trouble with a conveyor delay in a model.

I know how to construct one with an inflow, an outflow (where the delay conveyor function nests) and a loss outflow. Here I have three separate outflows with respective delay conveyor functions and no loss outflow, since technically there are no losses. Currently I simply have the same function in all three outflows, with weights applied to them (all adding up to 1) and 0 for the loss rates. Funnily enough the stock goes negative. It is not due to initialisation either, since the delay time is significantly shorter (1/40) than the model run time and the stock just keeps draining at the same rate throughout the run.

Any help would be welcome! :)
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Post by Administrator »

Can you post the model so we can have a look?

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Post by bob@vensim.com »

If you have a fixed convey time and no leakage just use DELAY FIXED - this is much simpler and will give the results you want.
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Post by ESC »

Thanks!

Unfortunately I may not post the model but could do a simplified version. I simply remodelled it (closely along the lines Bob described) to get rid of the problem for now :)
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