Sequential Waterclocks (And Liquid Duplication!)

[Red Shark]

I was trying to make a sequential waterclock by using different elements in series. (And boy was that a hassle to get into the right pipes in the right order),

The goal was to make a sequential, wrapping, automation output based on the number of elements -- so if you have 5 outputs, only 1 would ever be Green at a given time, and which output was Green would change sequentially over the course of the waterclock loop.

However, I found an element duplication bug instead

Is there a way to achieve this with a single element instead? I have some ideas, but I thought perhaps that someone may have already connived such a thing. I'm looking for a 5 cycle timer, but I figure most proofs of concept would be expandable to most timeframes.