QcCircuitComponents Class

Detailed Description

A component reacts when a block changes next to it (or next to what powers it) and again when its scheduled tick comes:

• a Signal Torch goes out or lights 2 ticks after its block's power changed; going out 8 times within 60 ticks burns it out for 160 ticks (it fizzles);
• a Signal Repeater switches after 2 ticks per delay step and always gives a pulse of at least its delay; a powered repeater pointing at its side locks it;
• a Signal Lamp lights at once and goes dark offDelayTicks after losing power;
• an opener follows rising and falling power, so players can still use it in between;
• a piston extends or retracts at once (BUD: with quasi-connectivity it is also powered through the block above it, but only finds out when something next to it changes);
• buttons spring back after pulseTicks, plates when nothing stands on them any more;
• a Signal Comparator recomputes its output 2 ticks after its inputs changed: the back input (or the reading of a container or readable block behind it, also through one conductor) compared with or reduced by the strongest side input (decision E-343);
• a Signal Observer turns on 2 ticks after the block in front of it changed and off 2 ticks later;
• a Signal Hopper is locked while it gets any power;
• a Signal Dispenser or dropper notes rising power (also quasi-connectivity, like a piston) and ejects an item 4 ticks later (decision E-345);
• a rail slot (powered and activator rails) is powered at once while it or a rail of the same block within its reach along the line gets power; a change at one rail decides all rails within reach of it (decision E-384).