I have a minor comment on the circuit design....If you are going to use a battery the 7805 will waste power. How can this be avoided? One fix would be to use a Low-dropout regulator...using the walwart of course you are not concerned with battery life.
Rergards Robert On 20 July, 11:47, Shane Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > John, you lead me on the right path. > I never bothered to replace the uC on the breadboard ( I assumed it worked > due to the functioning numbers, and the fact that it took the program) > Replaced the uC, and BINGO! we have a steady functioning tube counting from > 0-9. > > Thank you everyone for your help! I have a few new ideas to check in the > future, thanks to your suggestions. > > WOOHOO! > > Shane > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM, John Rehwinkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/20/2011 9:07 AM, Shane Ellis wrote: > > >> Unbelievable. I yanked out the four data wires, (picaxe to 74141), double > >> checked them, and NOW, I get 4,5,6,7!!!! What is going on!? > > > Sounds like the low 3 bits are connected correctly, and the high bit is not > > connected. TTL chips like the 74141 will pull their inputs high if > > unconnected. > > > - John KG4L > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "neonixie-l" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscribe@** > > googlegroups.com <neonixie-l%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/** > > group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB<http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB> > > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
