I have built a four digit counter using an Allen Bradley photoswitch which clocks four 74190s (Up/Down Decade Counters). When the beam from the photoswitch is interrupted, the counter counts up.
I would like to be able to decrement the counter manually with a single switch and have it act independently from the photoswitch (when decrementing, the switch should be the clocking device, not the photoswitch). This switch would have to drive the up/down pin AND the clock pin of the 74190s at the same time. It doesn't seem like you would be able to control both up/down and clocking operations at the same time due to the propagation delays of the 190s.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can decrement these 74190s with a single switch?
Thanks, Steve