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12 Hour Digital Clock Circuit

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Hi everyone,

I am having some problems trying to create a circuit for a 12 Hour digital clock circuit using 74LS90 IC's and 6x 7 segment displays to show the hours, minutes and seconds. I need the clock to have a start / stop and a reset function. Attached to this post is a screen shot of the circuit that I have so far, using the 7490 IC's.

Any help with this would be very much appreciated, as I am having real trouble in understanding how to make it work at the moment.

Thanks!
 

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Hi everyone,

I am having some problems trying to create a circuit for a 12 Hour digital clock circuit using 74LS90 IC's and 6x 7 segment displays to show the hours, minutes and seconds. I need the clock to have a start / stop and a reset function. Attached to this post is a screen shot of the circuit that I have so far, using the 7490 IC's.

Any help with this would be very much appreciated, as I am having real trouble in understanding how to make it work at the moment.

Thanks!
hi,
You cannot really clock all of the 7490's with a 1hZ clock.
You connect them as a ripple counter, that is the secs units clocks the secs tens and the sec tens clock the units minutes and so on.
Do you have any 7492 IC's.?

EDIT:
Look at this circuit posted by a fellow member some time ago.
 

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hi,
You cannot really clock all of the 7490's with a 1hZ clock.
You connect them as a ripple counter, that is the secs units clocks the secs tens and the sec tens clock the units minutes and so on.
Do you have any 7492 IC's.?

EDIT:
Look at this circuit posted by a fellow member some time ago.

Hi, no i'm afraid I will have to make the circuit using 7490's. Thank you for the reply, and the circuit diagram, i'm sure that will be of use to me.

In that circuit, what are the 7447 IC's used for?

Again, thank you very much!
 
Hi, no i'm afraid I will have to make the circuit using 7490's. Thank you for the reply, and the circuit diagram, i'm sure that will be of use to me.

In that circuit, what are the 7447 IC's used for?

Again, thank you very much!
hi,
The 7447 are BCD to 7segment LED drivers, you need them to convert the BCD count of the 7490 into signals to drive LED's.
As you can seem, the designer used the mains to get 1 hZ signal.
 
The 74LS90 IC has reset gating that can be used to convert it into a modulo 6 counter for the seconds & minutes tens digit counting.

Here is the basic idea.

I'll leave you to do the rest.
 

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A 24-hour clock is much easier to design because the count goes from 00:00 to 23:59. A 12-hour clock is a bear to design, especially with non-parallel-load ripple counters because you never start at zero on the hours going from 12:59 to 1:00.

It's likely that the original schematic with all the clocks tied together was intended to use synchronous counters such as the 74160-series and the 7490 was mistakenly specified.

Designing clock circuits from scratch is wonderful practice in digital design to get the correct modulus, start count, final count, etc. without glitches sliding in invisibly to cause nagging problems.

Dean
 
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**broken link removed** My 6-Digits Multiplexing LED Clock schematic v.2(edited)!
 
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Can anyone plz help me I m supposed to make a 12 hour digital clock by using 74LS160 decade counter. But I couldn't find a circuit diagram using this IC. Help
 
The data sheet I looked at was hard to understand. It seems like you can detect 5 using gates and then set it up such that the clock loads a 0. It might be easier than trying to reset the counter. That edge also needs to be gated to th next stage.

I'd look for a couple of manufacturer's data sheets to see if any are any better.
 
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