Talk:Counter (digital)

message: Why is this on this page? This should be moved to a disambiguation page or something, it certainly isn't relevant.
: Please sign yourself like everybody does. No reference to web counters appears on this page. However, since they are counters, they should probably appear in the article.
: ICE77 (talk) 05:20, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Web Counter

message: The ripple counter section talks exclusively about D-type flip flops, but the diagram has JK-type flip flops, if the diagram were a D-type flip flop, it may make more sense for the section. 152.2.88.109 (talk) 14:15, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind.  What I was thinking about was Gray code, which according to that article is primarily used for applications other than counting.  -- Milo
You are truly right D flip picture should be added other wise it would be difficult for users to adapt the idea. - Jamistan  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamistan (talk • contribs) 14:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ripple Counter Diagrams 

message: Can someone indicate why these were deleted? I'm restoring them for now, if you feel it's appropriate to delete them again, please let us know why on this page, just so we know. Thanks. B.Mearns*, KSC 12:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Johnson and Decade counters

message: Since decimal counters are listed, binary should be listed as well. Cascade counters are listed but no explanation is given (no section is dedicated to them).
ICE77 (talk) 05:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binary and cascade counters 

message: I have some trouble understanding how the last counter pictured (with two white wheels and notched disks in between) works, even when looking at the other pictures of the same series. For instance, taking two wheels, which I call the left and right one (I am intentionally not calling them tens and units), the right wheel has a ratchet wheel on its left and the left wheel has a bump on its right. The bump is presumably for the carry, but I do not understand why the bump is on the left wheel. Shouldn't it be on the right one? Or is this counter counting from left to right? Assuming this is the case, and considering that the metal disks are located at fixed positions, because of the grooved rods, when the left wheel turns, and the left wheel is not on 9, then the bump does not push on the cut out metal strip and therefore does not act on the right wheel (but see below). But when the left wheel is on 9, then the metal strip acts on the ratched wheel and adds one to that wheel.
Apart from the strange left-to-right adding, I do not see how the metal strip can act on the wheel to the right, except if something were fixed on top of the metal strip. But I can't see such a thing. I would therefore appreciate it if there was a more detailed explanation of that counter. Is there a patent for it?Roegel (talk) 21:52, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does the last counter of the page work? 

message: The Mechanical counter in itself is notable and it should have its own article. The current content can be a good stub for the new page. Some editors who discussed about the mechanical counter redirect (this discussion) also have similar idea. Z22 (talk) 01:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Then we'd need to rename the article again, since "digital counters" are all "counters" that 'count'. The nominal scope of this article are counters that are digital devices, that would be electronic and mechanical counters. If you remove counter (mechanical), then the rump article would need to move to counter (electronic) or electronic counter as digital counter/counter (digital) would no longer describe the scope of the remaining article. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather, this should be the base article, and each class of counter can have a subarticle, thus there would be no splitting, rather a new article is created as a subarticle. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I started the Mechanical counter article. I would leave counter (digital), with a main tag from its mechanical section.--agr (talk) 09:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split mechanical counter section