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In lugnet.technic, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > If you have an algorithm for using the switches the way you do without running
> > into accidental release problems, I'd be very interested in how you do it.
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> Not sure if there's an algorithm, per se... but here's how I do it.
>
> Conceptually, I think of the backwards switch arrangement as an XOR
> gate. Input (from the output valves) will only be accepted from either
> the top or bottom valve. In general, the way I avoid accidental release
> problems is by only hooking up bottom valves to bottom valves and top
> valves to top valves on switches on the same piston. Since all the
> switches are flipped in unison, any pressure that exists at either side
> will only propogate to the same side of switches elsewhere, and the
> output will come out the switch's normal entry valve.
>
> To do inter-piston switch configurations, as I do in the full adder, I
> exploited the fact that that positive pressure will never simultaneously
> exist in A XOR Cin and A&Cin, so if I used A XOR Cin to drive the left
> piston, I could safely run A&Cin through a lower valve on a switch
> connected to that piston.
>
> Does that make any sense?
Yes. Thanks. I'll have to try some of my own designs to really comprehend it.
I learn by doing (and failing ;^).
>
> > > Mark
Kevin
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