If you look at the table attached, you'll see that you LED would flash 3 times when counting down from "5" and it would flash 6 times when counting up.
In my circuit, the number you set on the DIP switch is not the pattern of the morse code. The pattern is set by the decoder and the gates after the decoder. Both the short and long signals are taken care of. May be my circuit is ahead of what you're doing presently. When you reach part 2 and part 3 of your exercise, then it would be useful.....
But still I think taking the output from Qa would not accomplish what you've intended to do.
Allen
In my circuit, the number you set on the DIP switch is not the pattern of the morse code. The pattern is set by the decoder and the gates after the decoder. Both the short and long signals are taken care of. May be my circuit is ahead of what you're doing presently. When you reach part 2 and part 3 of your exercise, then it would be useful.....
But still I think taking the output from Qa would not accomplish what you've intended to do.
Allen