Timer

The timer is a redstone circuit added by the Redpower 2 mod. When placed, it will wait for a player-specified interval before outputting a redstone pulse on 3 sides. By default it will output a redstone pulse every 2 seconds. However, the timer can be customized to wait for any length of time the player wants before doing this. In addition to its one redstone input (which only stops the timer), the Timer also uses 2 of its outputs as potential inputs which can also stop the Timer (see picture below for example).

''Note: When using the timer, sleeping in a bed* will make the timer skip forward as if the night has passed, meanwhile the world didn't really skip the time, the night just gets turned into day. Therefore if a timer is on while the night is being skipt, it won't be synchronised with the real time anymore.''

The fix to this is having shorter intervals and adding a counter, since sleeping trough the night does skip the timer, and adds one to the counter, but this won't have as much as an impact if the counter is set to an high value and the timer set to a low interval.

*Tested in a Tekkit server, no somnia mod installed.



Uses
Traditionally whenever the player wanted to build any mechanism that had to perform tasks at a specific interval, a clock circuit was needed in order to emit strongly timed redstone pulses. These clocks were usually large and in some cases required manual resets by the player. They were also stiff by design and changing the rate at which the clock ticked usually required reconstructing whole parts of the circuit (if not all of it). The timer simplifies and abstracts the clock circuit to a single block that can adjusted and switched on and off. Like all Redpower circuits, the timer can be placed on walls as well as on the floor.

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The Timer can be changed from a minimum of 0.050 of a second to a huge amount of time between pulses. Activating a (for example) lever connected to it via redstone or red alloy wire will stop it, until the lever is turned off. This can be great when using a transposer or other Redpower2 machines that require an alternating restone current. This can also be used instead of a BuildCraft redstone engine, but is much more expensive. The only reason you might want to change you BuildCraft engine is either if you don't like Buildcraft, or if you want a neater-looking system.