Making a redpower circuit

[Pyrobob]

So I have a front gate to my castle that I made in creative mode as a sort of test run before I put it in my survival server. At the moment the gate is 9 blocks high and 8 blocks wide. Everything works but the redpower circuitry I used is rather large as I am still pretty new to this kinda of thing. I need my gate to go 9 blocks up with one button. So I have 9 state circuits each one consecutive on time: 1s, 2s, 3s, etc... all the way to 9s. The gate works great but the circuitry takes up alot of space. Any ideas to cut down?

 

[nardavin]

Well, I think you have 2 options:

1. Simply hide the redstone underground

2. If it must be above ground, I recommend using some kind of pulse extender (there might be one in redpower, but I don't know) to make the signal 9 seconds and having it connected to a timer that has a delay of 1 sec. so when it is on, it will pulse 9 times, once each second.

 

[Enigmius1]

I would use a timer, a counter, and a toggle latch. Timer sends a redstone signal to both the counter and the gate motor(s) at an appropriate interval. When the counter reaches the specified value (9), it emits a redstone signal that is routed to the toggle latch. Redstone signal from the toggle latch is fed to the timer and the 'reset' side of the counter. Now the timer is stopped, the counter is ready for the next cycle, and a redstone pulse (ie. button, remote control, etc.) to the toggle latch will disable the redstone signal causing the timer to resume . 3 logic blocks and a few pieces of red allow wire should have you covered.

 

[Neirin]

If all you want is 9 distinct pulses 1 sec apart the easiest way is:
button -> state cell (set to 9 sec) -> NOT gate -> timer (set to 1 sec) -> wireless transmitter

EDIT: the output of the state cell should be opposite the little pointer, so it would be on the left in your picture instead of on the top
EDIT2: forgot you need a NOT gate in there
EDIT3: Screenshot:

Spoiler

From left to right, top to bottom that's timer, wireless transmitter, NOT Gate, state cell. The button is on the piece of cobble I'm standing on.

 

[Pyrobob]

Thanks guys for the help!