Its repeat time is 61 ticks due to a spark from the beehive push reaction. To prevent interference of the output's first natural glider at a separation of 61 or 62 ticks, a variant of tub-with-tail eater can be used to replace half of the eater bridge eater; the block of the TWIT is to be placed at the location marked in the infobox by a duoplet.
Further overclocking thins the glider stream: at periods 49, 50, 53, 56, 57, and 58, every second glider is deleted, and at period 45, only every third glider goes through.
The low repeat time makes speed tunnel a faster alternative to the syringe, which has a repeat time of 78 ticks and overclock periods of 74 and 75.
Based on the initial reaction, Simon Ekström constructed a 180-degree glider reflector, with a compact bounding box of 22 × 23 and overlapping input and output lane, as shown above.[3] This in turn made various new conduit cleanups possible, such as a stable version of the long-known Lx134,[4] a non-period multiplying version of the Fx70[5] and a new faster Rx Herschel turn, Rx113.[6] Meanwhile, it also inspired Entity Valkyrie to find the p82 pi-heptomino hassler. Similarly it led to the discovery of the p68 pi-heptomino hassler.
It can be replaced by the Galumpher in circuitry as it outputs a glider on the same lane, 0hd. This allows for Neo-Spartan variants of an Rx113 first found by affamatodidio, and Lx134.
Rx113, which uses a Jubjub reflector for cleanup. Not to be confused with the combination of HRx65R and RF48H that bears the same label (click above to open LifeViewer)
A 54-tick pi-to-Herschel converter was found reusing the second stage of the speed tunnel,[7] leading to an F149,[8] F114 and an Lx129[9]Herschel conduits.
Lx129 (HL75P + P?12? + ??42H) (click above to open LifeViewer)
(The first "?" in "??42H" refers to the unnamed active object with extended Wechsler format "e9jp", which appears 24 generations after the glider collides with the loaf. The second "?" is because the canonical orientation of the "e9jp" object has not been decided.)
This new glider to block has the additional property of being a safe toggle switch. A second glider following on the same input lane will cleanly destroy a block created by the previous glider. This means that there is no combination of "SET" and "READ" inputs that can destroy the mechanism, as long as enough time is allowed to pass between inputs. By contrast, the beehive stopper, the demultiplexer, and most other known factories used in logic circuitry will fail catastrophically if a second SET input occurs before a READ input removes the key object.
Composite glider splitter using a speed tunnel, HRx65R and snark64; repeat time is 61, the current minimum for a glider-to-2-glider converter (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE:herePlaintext:here
Colour-changing 90° glider reflector
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Repeat time 81 glider reflector;[11] unfortunately, the clearance is believed to be insufficient to fit an eater 3-like catalyst and produce a colour-changing counterpart to the Snark (click above to open LifeViewer)
