Sorry if this has been asked before, went through a few pages from a search and didn't see anything, and sorry if it is in the wrong section.
I want to build the lightning detector project, Lightning Detectors, and one of the add-on boards I want to do is a counter. I will take the pulse line and feed it into a 4026 chip, 4000 series CMOS Logic ICs, and that would go to a 7-segment display. I understand that to be able to display the 3 digits so I can count to 999 I have to take the output from pin 5 from the first chip and connect that to pin 1 of the next chip and so forth. Then I would just connect each 4026 to a 7-segment display to display the count. Each 7-segment display would be separate making it harder to mount them all next to each other.
How would I use one of these, BC56-12GWA Kingbright LED Displays? It is three 7-segment display all put together into one package so it would make it easier to mount to a case. Does each 7-segment still have it's own input for the led's?
I want to build the lightning detector project, Lightning Detectors, and one of the add-on boards I want to do is a counter. I will take the pulse line and feed it into a 4026 chip, 4000 series CMOS Logic ICs, and that would go to a 7-segment display. I understand that to be able to display the 3 digits so I can count to 999 I have to take the output from pin 5 from the first chip and connect that to pin 1 of the next chip and so forth. Then I would just connect each 4026 to a 7-segment display to display the count. Each 7-segment display would be separate making it harder to mount them all next to each other.
How would I use one of these, BC56-12GWA Kingbright LED Displays? It is three 7-segment display all put together into one package so it would make it easier to mount to a case. Does each 7-segment still have it's own input for the led's?