555 timer - Egg Timer Circuit

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shaunyness

Joined Mar 30, 2009
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I need to design a circuit that provides timing between 3-6 minutes...the clock needs to be based around a 555 timer.

The timing can be controlled using a variable resistor, however I am wondering how I could go about using digital control.

Any ideas?
 
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shaunyness

Joined Mar 30, 2009
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Thanks, one more thing...

How could I go about adding a 7segment display arrangement to display the counting process. Would this be overly difficult?
 

SgtWookie

Joined Jul 17, 2007
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What circuits are available for you to use?
Do you have 74 series TTL IC's, or 4000 series CMOS?
If 74 series TTL, a 7490 counter and 7447 decoder could work.

If 4000 series CMOS, a 4026 or 4033 IC would be handy.

A digital pot might be a bit expensive for a project like this.
 

Erasimus

Joined Mar 29, 2009
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Instead of a digital pot, could you take the output of a voltage over an analog pot, throw that into an ADC and take the digital output to your counter or display?
 

Bernard

Joined Aug 7, 2008
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A little wild: Use 2 555's, first counts 30 sec. periods, 2nd inhibits 4017 counter for 2 min. Out "0" not used or tied to a green LED, remainder connected to a ring of 9 LEDs & 9 positions on rotary sw[ digital selection ] , armature to FF for memory, not Q resets, or inhibits 30 sec timer. " Sonalert" connected to Q , FF reset by killing power or PB SW on reset input. Count is from 2 min to 6 min. by 30 sec incriments. Or use 2 4017 , and no 2 min inhibit; as many SW positions and LEDs as desired ; OR ....
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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You could also use a CD4052 (dual quad mux/demux, a solid state switch) along with resistors to set the time via binary. You can also use a 1 of 4 or 1 of 8 decoder to program the input. A variable timer would work better though.

Have your read this, 555 Monostable?
 
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