@davee Hi Will and Dave. Will, thanks for your encouragement and instructions. I will scrub back in and begin to look at the different parts of the pu...

@davee Hi Dave. Warning; The following is probably too much information, but I am reminded of you asking me to always provide as much info as possible...

@davee Hi Dave, Good news. Progress has been made (mostly thanks to you) as follows: The division factor (phase four) has been found, and that has a...

@will Nice!

@will So True! BTW, I just now noticed the little saying you have at the bottom of each of your posts. It's pretty funny, and I think it's classic, an...

@zander Hi Ron. Yes, your assumption was correct. I was talking about "comments" added to a sketch, (but after re-reading my post, I now see that sinc...

@will Will, Thanks for the clarification(s), and I'm glad you thought of "pretending", cause I certainly wasn't going to. My confusion over not even b...

@zander Thanks Ron. I now see that it's ok to add my own text to a sketch, and that the computer will ignore it.( at least I hope it does). That will ...

@will Will, Send me the bill! You nailed it. It was the first thing I did today, and the LED is now happily flashing 1-0, and purring like a kitten.Th...

@davee Hi Dave, Thanks. Before I scrub in to today's efforts by trying your suggestions, I need to mention that the "random" behavior of the segments ...

@will Thanks much Will, for your suggestion. Because I'm a newcomer to making changes to a sketch, (my only experience with changes so far have been t...

better shot of sketch

@davee Hi Dave. Thanks for your reply and continued support. I have successfully connected my Arduino Uno r-4 to the 2003 APG chip. (the battery pack ...

@davee Hi Dave, After some delays, I'm finally back on the counter project. So far, it's good news, I think. The 2003 seems to be a good recommendatio...

Hi Dave. Thanks for another helpful reply. I'm a little swamped with other stuff today and possibly tomorrow, so I'll have a more complete reply, and ...