I'm having this problem as well... Got some downwards-facing dispensers with water buckets in them. Pressing a button sends them one signal, and another signal after a long delay (70 ticks or so). The signals will be completely ignored if the dispenser(s) haven't gotten an update. All my dispensers are being powered by a wire ontop of them. If two dispensers are next to each other though, they will update each other every time, and there shouldn't be a problem. Because of this I tried to put droppers next to each of the dispensers that weren't working, hoping that the droppers would update the dispensers, but this only solved half of the dispensers. Hope this helps a bit for debugging and solving the problem.
I'm having this problem as well... Got some downwards-facing dispensers with water buckets in them. Pressing a button sends them one signal, and another signal after a long delay (70 ticks or so). The signals will be completely ignored if the dispenser(s) haven't gotten an update. All my dispensers are being powered by a wire ontop of them. If two dispensers are next to each other though, they will update each other every time, and there shouldn't be a problem. Because of this I tried to put droppers next to each of the dispensers that weren't working, hoping that the droppers would update the dispensers, but this only solved half of the dispensers.
Hope this helps a bit for debugging and solving the problem.