Why is a 4T delay not acceptable and a 5T delay is OK?

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from Automatic sorter with adjustable number of storagesdraft Why is a 4T delay not acceptable and a 5T delay is OK? 9/5 Why is a 4T delay not acceptable and a 5T delay is OK? Lipita 5T delay + Torch 1T delay + Torch reversal 5T delay equivalent

• Possibility 1
  • 2T after dropper on, it enters hopper 1, moves to 2, 3 every 4T, and the upper hopper stops when it enters 3.
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    • 1T early sucks.
    • This interpretation assumes immediate smoking when the hopper is turned on
      • But Experimental notes with unfamiliar results negates that.
      • But if we affirm this experiment, there’s no way the sorting machine can run at a 5T clock, so maybe there’s some difference we’re not aware of. mystery
  • Both the dropper and hopper run on one tick. 9/8 Mystery solved.
• https://twitter.com/nishio/status/1435426297279234048?s=21

• Droppers turned on by torches propagate signals around them, causing neighboring hoppers to stop temporarily I completely understand.

• Flow when working correctly with a 5T delay.
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  • Dropper stops adjacent hopper 1 and does not flow to hopper 2 until it is turned off
  • When you reach hopper 3, 4 has stopped, so wait until 4 starts moving again.
  • The wait is long enough so you can chest here as well.
• Flow when 4T delay does not work correctly.
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  • The 4 is still moving when it reaches hopper 3, so it sucks.
  • And the next tick after that, it sucks to 5.
  • As a result, all items end up in the lower chest. To reiterate, let me reorganize.
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• DL is a dropper for flow limitation purposes
  • Put a 5 on 5 off signal in phase with hopper H4 in DL
  • If we extend H1 to H3, we delay 4T per hopper, so we accelerate the DL clock by that amount.
• This phase alignment is very important
  • If DL is 1T early, everything will be in C3.
• No signals in H3.
• DE is a dropper elevator, which can be clocked as fast as 2 on 2 off
• LC is Large Chest
  • Fast item elevator sinks are buffered here.
  • You can put items directly here.
    • If the height is low, that’s quicker.
  • Item elevators can be added later when they are expanded.
    • Direction of expansion is down
  • If you use a fast clock for the item elevator, the dropper will get stuck when you put a lot of stuff in without a buffer.
    • Elevators that assume that only one thing can fit in the bottom dropper will stop without feeding the item all the way through.

confirmation required

• Does the dropper stop the hopper even when it is on with powder?

  • If not, adjustments must be made.
  • https://scrapbox.io/files/613965d780613f001d7794b6.mp4

• Experiment 1 Powder, Dropper, Hopper, Powder ON in hopper

  • If the hopper stops, it won’t go into the second hopper.

5 stories

Now, let’s build with survival. Where shall I put it, I’ll line the walls of this house with chests.

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I was a little unsure whether to extend it horizontally or backward, but this time I extended it horizontally for ease of access to the chest of inputs. When I want to expand it, I may change it to extend it backward.

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Wiring is a bit difficult because they are lined up on the wall. Since we can’t go around, we need to move up and down the scaffold. It is not impossible.

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As it was finished, the contents of the old automatic sorting machine were transferred, but it was impossible to put what was 12 chests of quicksand into 5 chests. We expanded it by two chests at the bottom.

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The old automatic sorting machine has been dismantled.

The problem of noisy ticking when a signal enters an empty hopper was solved by adding a switch here.

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Sorting through the chests, there are still a lot of vegetables. They were transported by hopper from the automatic farm to the automatic sorting machine, but I think it would be better to sort them around the farm and sell them to farmers in the area instead of bringing them here in the first place.

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