Need a bit of help with a vcr circuit

So, what you are asking for is for "forward" to go off if "play" OR "Stop" is pressed. Is that right? I don't see the problem.

yeah, that works right now

but if forward is on and play is off. then if i press play, forward should stop and play should stay on

Ken gave you the clue: if play OR stop is pressed then forward should go off. So you need an or gate to the S pin of the forward flipflop and both stop and play should be an input of that or gate.

BTW, why did you choose to use inverted logic? Nothing wrong with that, but most people would use the R(eset) for the stop function instead of the S(et).

--DF

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First of all, I would use the play/ff buttons to SET the flipflops, the stop button to RESET the flipflop, and connect the lights to the Q outputs instead. Makes it a bit easier to understand, compared to the reversed logic you are using now. Do that first.

The forward FF should be reset when STOP is pressed, OR when PLAY is pressed. Note the OR in this description. So you need to put in an OR gate somewhere.

Deefoo wrote: (snip)

There's no accounting for taste. Back in college days, Logic Design prof. took off points for my solutions to final exam questions that involved loop equations. My transgression was assigning negative values to voltage drops in the direction of current flow and positive values in the opposite cases (which I had also done in every homework problem, all semester). The "It's not wrong but most people do it differently" excuse didn't hold then either. After some discussion, I got my points back. :-)

--- View in Courier

. Vcc Vcc . | | . RUN [R] [R] . ____ | | +_----+ RUN . +--O O---+---------------|----+----|S Q|--[R]--[LED>]--GND . | ____ | | |_ _| . +--O O---|---+-[]--GND . | STOP | | |A +-----+ STOP . | [CR][CR] [CR] . | |A |A | . | | | | . | | | | . | | | | Vcc Vcc . | | | | | | . | | | | [R] [R] . | ____ | | | | | +_----+ FF . +--O O---|---|--------+--|----+----|S Q|--[R]--[LED>]--GND . | FF | | | |_ _| . | +---+-----------+---------|R Q| .GND +-----+ .

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer