Torben
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
OK, hopefully this is the last question I'll need answered on my TTL foosball scoring circuit. Thanks to those who've helped so far!
Last thing to do is to have it reset to 0 automatically when first powered on. I *also* need it to have a manual reset switch.
For various reasons (mostly room, actually--and I want to get this thing done tonight if I can, for another), I don't want to go with an IC-based Schmitt trigger, which I've read here is the preferred solution. I've tried a couple of basic RC nets on the reset pins but can't get the thing to count with it attached (i.e. it keeps the reset pins off ground). I tried sticking a 2n3904's emitter to ground, collector to the reset pins, and base to a RC net designed to delay the base input by ~20mS. This configuration let me count but wouldn't reset the circuit on power-on.
Seems like there *must* be a way to do this, given the number of references to doing it with only an RC net I've found. But I'm just a hobbyist with no calculus and a very, very basic understanding of what's actually going on in the RC net, so I am not sure what I need to change to get it working.
I'm going about it fairly emperically right now (just researching/googling, trying different things, failing, reading more, trying again....) but I'm hoping somebody has a) the answer and b) the urge to write up a quick answer/explanation/pointer to solid information on this. Seems like a pretty basic thing, but I just haven't learned it yet.
Thanks (and sorry for the wordiness),
Torben
OK, hopefully this is the last question I'll need answered on my TTL foosball scoring circuit. Thanks to those who've helped so far!
Last thing to do is to have it reset to 0 automatically when first powered on. I *also* need it to have a manual reset switch.
For various reasons (mostly room, actually--and I want to get this thing done tonight if I can, for another), I don't want to go with an IC-based Schmitt trigger, which I've read here is the preferred solution. I've tried a couple of basic RC nets on the reset pins but can't get the thing to count with it attached (i.e. it keeps the reset pins off ground). I tried sticking a 2n3904's emitter to ground, collector to the reset pins, and base to a RC net designed to delay the base input by ~20mS. This configuration let me count but wouldn't reset the circuit on power-on.
Seems like there *must* be a way to do this, given the number of references to doing it with only an RC net I've found. But I'm just a hobbyist with no calculus and a very, very basic understanding of what's actually going on in the RC net, so I am not sure what I need to change to get it working.
I'm going about it fairly emperically right now (just researching/googling, trying different things, failing, reading more, trying again....) but I'm hoping somebody has a) the answer and b) the urge to write up a quick answer/explanation/pointer to solid information on this. Seems like a pretty basic thing, but I just haven't learned it yet.
Thanks (and sorry for the wordiness),
Torben