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| Lysol 
 
 
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|  Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:02 pm    Post subject: |    |   
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| I gave this schem a go on the breadboard as well, which I believe is basically the same principle for cascading them as seen in the 4017 manual. 
 However though, i'm still left with a similar problem. It will cycle through all 16 steps just fine, but I can't seem to find a configuration using the reset pins to have control over how many steps it cycles through.
 
 Ultimately, I'm trying to get a 16 step sequencer that has the same toggles as seen in the "Little Gate."
 
 
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| Lysol 
 
 
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|  Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:21 pm    Post subject: |    |   
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|  	  | PHOBoS wrote: |  	  |  	  | Quote: |  	  | Or, to get the functionality that I want would it be more wise to just attempt cascading them as outlined in fig. 19 in the manual? (via an AND gate?). | 
 Although the version in the datasheet is different it works somewhat similar and I don't think it would be muich of an improvement.
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 Yes, this appears to be the situation I found myself in. Same issue using a transistor AND gate to cascade - reset doesn't work.
 
 
  	  | PHOBoS wrote: |  	  | a much better solution for more steps would be to use a binary counter (4040, 4029, 4520) and a binary to decimal decoder (4514) or a mux (4067) instead of 2 4017s. | 
 I did check and it does appear as though I have a 4040 and a 4051
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| PHOBoS 
 
  
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|  Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:36 pm    Post subject: |    |   
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| a single 4051 will only get you 8 steps, but there are ways of cascading them. 
 For 2 muxes it is not very complicated and to do this you use 3 outputs of the binary counter
 for the A,B,C inputs of both muxes and use another output of the counter to control the INH pin
 which has to be inverted for 1 of the muxes.
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| dadinfinitum 
 
 
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|  Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:17 am    Post subject: |    |   
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| I have a couple elementary questions, and at least is in reference to the cascading 4017s at the beginning: 
 - CV out is simply taking each output of the 4017, running it through a pot and diode, and connecting all of those, right?
 - can you create a gate output by taking the CV output and ANDing it with the clock? Anything extra that needs to happen there?
 - with the cascading 4017s, how do the CV outputs work? I understand that you can have two different outputs for each of the 8 steps, but how does the output work for the 16 step?
 
 Thanks in advance!
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