Redstone pulse via turtle?

[Someguy]

So I'm trying to use a turtle to do a simple (?) redstone pulse. Is this do-able?

Shouldn't it be as simple as, say:

redstone.setOutput("left", true)
sleep(0.2)
redstone.setOutput("left", false)

and loop?

It turns stuff on, but doesn't turn it off... what am I missing?

 

[Whovian]

Don't know too much about turtles, but apparently redstone.setOutput("left", false) doesn't turn it off? Try getting it to emit a chirp ... or give some easy-to-notice indication every loop right after it turns the RS signal on, then you can tell if it's going into the next loop in the first place.

 

[Sidiuos]

it does turn it off but as soon as it turns itself off, it is turning back on. You need to put in a sleep command after redstone.setOutput("left", false).

So something like

while true do
redstone.setOutput("left", true)
sleep(0.2)
redstone.setOutput("left", false)
sleep(0.8)
end

would give you a 20% duty cycle

 

[Someguy]

That totally fixed it, thanks Sidiuos.