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I'm attempting to make a circuit that flashes each LED sequentially. So far my 555 timer works just fine and gives me a pulse about 3x/second for the clock on the CD4017. However the LED's flash in random orders.
For the split second that the timer supplies voltage to the 4017, a random LED is lit up. For the split second that it stops supplying voltage all the LEDs dimly flash on.
Note that for the sake of simplicity, I only included 5 LED's in the schematic. There's ten LEDs for the 10 outputs of the CD4017.
Any idea what's going wrong here? I'm a first year student of E.E. so I'm still learning a lot. Thanks!
EDIT: This is essentially what I'm trying to create: