Hi all, I need a pro... I am slowly learning electronics, all my experience is line voltage electrical wiring and control, including, and/or/not/nor/nand logic so naturally (after 23 years) I am going to think like an electrician (which I learned fast, Ya Can't ! lol ) so if you can , please try to explain it so I can understand the logic, i.e on or off, now my question is about the standard operation of a flip flop. So far all I understand is it can hold 1 bit of memory and can also be used as a latch, similar to a motor starter auxilary holding contact that opens when the coil line opens and drops out the relay but I know it's nothing like that at all. Matter of fact, I hooked it up the way I saw in a diagram and it started acting like it had a mind of its own ! , it would come on and off by itself and when my hand came near the clock input wire it sounded like it was oscillating , kinda freaked me out.... i guess the chip has some internal capacitors, anyway, the following is how I hooked it up, so if you can I would appreciate the feedback and If I can ever help any of you with an electrical problem or code question I would be happy to return the favor: Thanks in advance, Jim ..... (I do have a 555 pulse timer if I need it)
but I manually did this by hand by making contact w/ a wire from positive to Pin 3, I would touch it for a second and it would not reset unless I touched a negative to it, then a positive pulse again )
Pin 1 ~ Out to piezo buzzer
Pin 2 ~ Connected to Data(5)
Pin 3 ~ Pulse from my clock (9 V pulse I did by hand)
Pin 4 ~ Reset , I connected to negative
Pin 5 ~ Data , connected to Pin 2
Pin 6 ~ Set , connected to negative
Pin 7 ~ Negative (0V)
Pin 14 ~ Positive (9V)
As you can see I was only using one side of the Toshiba 4013B
and I also inserted a 1000uf decoupler in the power bar and it really did'nt do anything... A tall order I know, Please help.....