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RJSV:
Ok FOLKS:
   POST A PICTURE, of your ROBOT. DOG

   (Mine is posing next to some nice wood burl box)
RJSV:
Hey!  Ha ha:. Jokes on ME !  :
   I figured a lazy break... Show your ROBOT,. bla bla
But, along the way, That DOG exhibits the very same little glitch, in movement, that I feared.  The action of switching the toggle, when you've mixed toggle movement signals, INTERMIXED, with the 'data' being switched, well, that creates approx. 120 mSec. of backwards drive, (to left side gear, in this case).
That's before the formal, desired output direction takes over, so (you've) got to wait...until the TIP gear comes clear, of the former contact with left side output.
   If you recall, that moves, one of the linkages, outside of toy's gear box, that moves the legs, in little circular patterns. But the brief movement is obviously backwards, from point of view of one of the Robots paws.
RJSV:
This current photo, makes the case against NETWORK propagation delay, at least some.
   You can see, as the signal or 'work' flow is from that electronic Base Controller, having small electric motor outputs.  But the shaft, it simply connects, straight is best, down a 'series' line, on occasional bearings, in each distributed box.
  I'm thinking, say, 20 msec to box #1, from controller, then 400 mSec, for a Station box out 20 feet away.
Then, internal switch swing times of typical 300 mSec plus ..
  So might be, at end of string, 400 + 300 = 700 mSec.
And so, instead of playing '700', against 380 mSec,
I just throw hands up and say: " Do 1. 000 Seconds, for a few percent over what's needed, without case by case delay.
   Often, with a 'Human', we can take 1 second, just pulling arm back, after pressing 'START'.

  Cant see good, thru my intentional 'smoked plexiglass' boxes., But only one box, at a time, is with switch TIP gear engaged.  All those other Stations, with their own main (un-engaged) gear it's just hard, sometimes, to conceptualize it all, so hard, while keeping some computer science function detail in mind.
   But, so anyway, don't forget, the main method is to send, to excess, that one single impulse, of concern, trusting switching (or whatever) will be complete
Meanwhile, down the line, there, the Station switch performs an 'auto-stop', of sorts, self switching upon completion of some local task.
For example, when switch 'B' gets cleared, overflow after positioning completion, then proceeds to reset switch 'A'.  So the box kind-of self disconnects components, for least drag but also so that function doesn't 'Do the UNDEAD' thing, later.
RJSV:
Here is more detail, on the 'Proxy Gear' similarities with that tear-down video, on " FORD MARK II Range Computer"..something like that.
  Inside, a GEAR acts as a real model in a simulator intent, (partially what I thought a tracking gear could do, for my particular issues.)
The gear position symbolized an aircraft under tracking, while another gear symbolized 'velocity', (I guess, maybe).  Plus, acceleration, (the 'third tier' in calculus integrals) was also in there
Radar input provided 3-D info (? maybe?).
Purpose was to swiftly move the big anti-aircraft guns, but as time brought out the Jet propulsion, well, the FORD MARK II Computer faultered...

('Proxy Gear does similar work, following some remote component, but also provides valuable longer term timing (delays).
RJSV:
With all this subject jumping around, Readers might appreciate some more depth, describing that SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR.

   (Please see diagram).  With T3 switch positioned in connected mode, the application of 'power' by way of input, starts an Output going
   The idea, for timing this, is using Switch T1 for a 250 mSec delay, before turning off the impulse Output.
(Meanwhile the input continues to supply the power.)

   Each timing switch ends up in a cascade state, passing output rotation continuously after end of cycle (passed to next component).
For the 'OFF' time in this cycle, another switch-timer, T2 will, as the others, run the time, 250 mSec. and then start sending the 'T2END' status Output.
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