I know that if I make a redstone circuit that switches too often, my redstone torches will 'burn out' and stop working. Under what circumstances does this happen? Will a slow circuit eventually burn out? If not, what's the maximum 'clock speed' for a circuit such that it will never burn out?
Minecraft – When do redstone torches burn out
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A rapid pulsar works by basically having four 1-clocks, when one burns out another takes over. You can't have a 1-clock by itself without it burning out. The largest stable clock is a 5-clock.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_circuits#Pulse_Generators
My suggestion would be to change the normal rail at the bottom of the dip into a powered rail. This also removes the need for two pieces of Redstone dust, as one would power the whole section.
You don't need to use Redstone to bypass that on the way in; you could simply build something like this (it might take you a bit to manipulate the tracks like this):
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Best Answer
The fastest clock that will not burn out is the 4-clock. A common design is this one:
I think all repeaters must be set to 4 to remain stable, but I've been fine setting them to 3 before.
Edit: I did some research, to investigate. I have found that a torch needs at least 8 ticks total delay between pulses to prevent burnout. So the repeater clock with 4 repeaters should be set to at least 2 ticks each.
My basic setup:
Basically, my experiment involved that basic repeater clock hooked up to 4 torches. I started with them each at 1 tick delay, and, as expected, all of the torches burnt out very quickly. I increased the delay on the repeaters one by one until the torches stopped burning out. This point came when each repeater was at 2 ticks delay (though the torches were probably pulsing too quickly for most devices).
Though it should be noted that torches can be extremely buggy sometimes; sometimes, pulling a lever will burn a torch out...