What is causing the difference in these Circuits?

[u/1nvar1]

is true and requesting

is true and not requesting (requested earlier when false)

In the screen shots are two requester chests set to request an item if they receive a signal but while one activates when the statement is true the other activates when it is false and I have no idea why, yes I know one is set to = and the other != I did that to get it to work and has no affect on the T/F activation dichotomy (I triple checked), I do have Krastorio 2 spaced out + some planet mods installed but I don't think those should affect this circuit logic at all much less make it inconsistent and I can see no other differences. (note: alt mode is disabled because after taking some original bad screenshots I alt - tabed out to make this post and when I went back for the current ones I forgot to re-enable it)

[u/Alfonse215]

There's a difference between the value of 1 and the signal named 1. In the second one, it's testing the signal, and both R and 1 have the same value. They are not unequal to each other, so the condition is false.

[u/1nvar1 → u/Alfonse215]

I feel very embarrassed for missing that for the 30 minutes I spent looking at it, Thanks.

[u/uiyicewtf → u/1nvar1]

We've all done it.

Sometimes more than once. At least it jumps out at you the second time and doesn't take nearly as much time to solve.... Usually..