Project: Digital Clock built with 7490 Decade Counters and a Hacked Quartz Clock

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BlackCow

Joined May 11, 2009
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Thanks jgessling for giving me the idea of hacking a quartz analog clock for my 1 second time base.

Video of the clock.

The time is kept by six 7490 decade counters. The 1 Hz clock is pulsed into a 7490 wired up as a mod 10 counter (for seconds 0-9). The output of the mod 10 counter is pulsed into a 7490 wired as a mod 6 counter (for seconds 0-5). That circuit is then duplicated for the minutes (0-59). The hours are then counted by two 7490s wired up as a mod 24 counter. (0-23).

The tens of seconds are displayed by 3 LEDs in binary. The 7 segment displays are driven by four 4511 BCD-to-7 segment decoders. I needed thirty-three 100 Ohm resistors in total for all the displays and LEDs.

My blog post.
 

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Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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It would be preferable to move the docs to this site. We have had extensive bad experiences with the other, just pack them in a zip file, they should fit in this site.
 

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BlackCow

Joined May 11, 2009
65
It would be preferable to move the docs to this site. We have had extensive bad experiences with the other, just pack them in a zip file, they should fit in this site.
Yeah I was having trouble attaching the schematic as a pdf. Zipping it worked fine, thanks.
 

Bill B

Joined Nov 29, 2009
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Very nicely done. I made one using 7490 decade counters as well only mine is a 12 hour with seconds and I used a 74190 programmable decade counter, a 74191 programmable 4-bit counter, and a flip flop for the hours.
 

fizza8492

Joined Jun 12, 2023
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Can you Share Pin diagram For digital Clock Using IC 7490 and 7447 display minutes and hours
Thanks jgessling for giving me the idea of hacking a quartz analog clock for my 1 second time base.

Video of the clock.
The time is kept by six 7490 decade counters. The 1 Hz clock is pulsed into a 7490 wired up as a mod 10 counter (for seconds 0-9). The output of the mod 10 counter is pulsed into a 7490 wired as a mod 6 counter (for seconds 0-5). That circuit is then duplicated for the minutes (0-59). The hours are then counted by two 7490s wired up as a mod 24 counter. (0-23).

The tens of seconds are displayed by 3 LEDs in binary. The 7 segment displays are driven by four 4511 BCD-to-7 segment decoders. I needed thirty-three 100 Ohm resistors in total for all the displays and LEDs.

My blog post.
 

Audioguru again

Joined Oct 21, 2019
6,672
7490 is old TTL logic that was used 52 years ago. It needs a high current 5V (only) supply. This thread is also very old.
Cmos logic (CD4xxx) replaced TTL many years ago and uses a 3V to 18V supply at a low current.
 

MisterBill2

Joined Jan 23, 2018
18,167
I am impressed!! and a good wiring and soldering job indeed. And a small package.
There is a CMOS IC, or at least used to be one, that would give one pulse per second from a color burst crystal. Bit if the clock worked that is great.
Certainly it could be done with CMOS, or even a single NMOS IC, but anybody can do that.
 
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