[0.15.7 (and earlier] Belt inserter needs > 1 tick enable
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:21 pm
Not sure if intentional, an oversight or a bug, but inserters sent a 1 tick pulse to enable will not perform a cycle of picking up / placing down to/from a belt. Whereas, they will perform a full cycle if inserting to/from a chest
In the below example, all inserters have the same settings, set to enable when receiving a 1 tick pulse from a pulse-generator. All the chest inserters work (even regular inserter) while none of the belt inserters work (even stack inserter). I expect this is to do with a delay while the inserter 'locates' an item on the belt, while box inserters don't need to.
Aligning behaviour to work with 1-tick pulse would facilitate sending instructions for a single insertion for belt-inserters, although a workaround is to send the enable command for e.g. 10 ticks instead of just 1.
In the below example, all inserters have the same settings, set to enable when receiving a 1 tick pulse from a pulse-generator. All the chest inserters work (even regular inserter) while none of the belt inserters work (even stack inserter). I expect this is to do with a delay while the inserter 'locates' an item on the belt, while box inserters don't need to.
Aligning behaviour to work with 1-tick pulse would facilitate sending instructions for a single insertion for belt-inserters, although a workaround is to send the enable command for e.g. 10 ticks instead of just 1.