The signal doesn't seem to be propagating from the latch, am I doing something wrong?
I rebuilt that and the latch propagated a signal as expected
the bottom left circuit is flashing, right?
EDIT:
I re-created that machine and got the same behavior. Block detector on the welded mode sends low power signals. The latch just happens to be where it goes from 1 to 0. This is intended. You can scan the wire on the input to the latch and see it has a charge of 1
Thanks, I didn't realize the latch doesn't refresh the signal. What about situations like this (the block detector is set to any)?
I had it against a wall and used right click to move it away, then the wires coming out of the block detector became stuck. If I let a block fall in front of it it would update and the wires would be off after the block passed. Also the top wire seemed to update to off for a moment while the block fell a little bit but wasn't in front of the detector yet.
When blocks get un-frozen after you place them, the update order is pretty arbitrary so you'll get a lot of blocks that change as soon as they get updated. This is pretty low priority, but I could always blast un-freezing blocks with more updates.
Is there any situation were errors from picking up and placing a contraption will not quickly resolve itself once some blocks start moving around near it?
Does signal drop depend on the blocks it passes through? This one seems to be dying a lot earlier than the latch one:
EDIT: Thought it was a signal drop issue since using a toggler next to the block detector did what I expected, but after messing around a bit it might be an update issue since it would work sometimes and break if I moved it. This is more annoying to work around because updating blocks near the block detector didn't help. I'm not sure what fixes it since I tried placing blocks around the ports but that didn't help either.
Here's also a different case I saw where dropping something on the block detector didn't update the signal it was outputting:
I also wasn't able to figure out how to make this one update.
EDIT2: If I drop the block sideways then one wire is activated
EDIT3: If it sees 3 adjacent ones then it's enough to cross the gap and power everything
I guess this might be some feature for detecting the number of blocks, for now I'm working around it by putting two transistors behind it