I'll take a look at it over the next few days
Awesome thanks.
I was able to make it work by adding "circuit_wire_max_distance = default_circuit_wire_max_distance," to the krastorio2-spaced-out.lua in the table.insert function.
So
icon_draw_specification = { scale = 0.7 },
structure = loader_structure(color[t.name]),
structure_render_layer = "object",
next_upgrade = next_loader,
became
icon_draw_specification = { scale = 0.7 },
structure = loader_structure(color[t.name]),
structure_render_layer = "object",
circuit_wire_max_distance = default_circuit_wire_max_distance,
next_upgrade = next_loader,