Talk:Redstone circuits/Pulse

Three different sections on one and the same thing? Pulse generators, pulse limiters and edge detectors
I'm just wondering, why are there three different sections on one and the same type of circuit. They all send short pulses and do so only when their input changes from either ON to OFF or vice versa. How about merging these sections into one? Lego 19:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Because they have subtle but important distinctions as to exactly what they do to the pulses, and how they respond to various input behavior. The differences may not matter much when you're hacking together a track switch, but I'd bet they're critical for folks building more complex circuits.  There's certainly overlap, but that's why they're all gathered onto the "Pulse Components" page. --Mental Mouse 20:50, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
 * And now that I've been studying the page more closely, I'm starting to reconsider that. Edge detectors, Pulse Generators, and Monostable Circuits do seem to fall on a continuum, at least! --Mental Mouse 00:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Honestly, the circuits are often the same, it's just the purpose you're putting them to that changes. You call a circuit-breaker a pulse generator if you're triggering it with a button, a pulse limiter if you need to control a sticky piston dropping a block, or a rising edge detector if your input pulses are of variable length (mobs over pressure plates, etc.).
 * I think it's important that each subject get its own section, just because people will be looking for things under those names, and to make them easy to link to from other pages, but the later sections may be more talky, just referring back to circuits already described in the first section.
 * &mdash;Munin295 &middot; Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Stone_Pickaxe.png &middot; 01:07, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Figure A non-working
Just a note that in the latest version (1.4.7) figure A in the pulse generator section no longer works - it requires at least a single repeater in the feedback loop.--86.221.119.5 01:35, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * In 1.4.7 it works if the torches are facing south or west. In 13w02b it works only when the torches are facing east. But that's still definitely a good point to raise. We're going to have to re-test a lot of these circuits after 1.5 is stabilized. &mdash;Munin295 &middot; Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Stone_Pickaxe.png &middot; 02:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)