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Trent. your worst bit of work as you called it, looks quite good to me. What method did u use for that.

It does look good. Also noticed u managed to cut a square in ur box for the seven segment display. Did u buy the box pre cut or use a dremel.

Ill give it a try. Problem is i sell timers that i made a while back. im trying to make them look less home made. So if any one knows a hobbist silk screener preferablly uk based, let me know

hello

Does anyone know a good(aka cheap) front panel or face plate making company. For low volume 20/month. Or just an easy method of printing on to plasic.

Jamie

Are u in the raf spitfire?

Would a count down timer be as simple as:

for sec=59 to 0
pause 1000
if sec=0
then minutes=minutes-1
gosub display.

the value for display would be (minutes*100)+sec eg if 3mins 59 sec value...

Yes i think i have a fair idea of the hard ware. Pretty much the same set up as the link you gave on the first post. Two microswitches for round selection .With a relay chunked in for the buzzer....

Many thanks for your reply spitefire just what i needed. I made a boxing round timer a while back, now im trying to improve it by displaying the time on a 7 seg display. its proving to be tricker...

quick one.
in the 7 seg display program what does ~dcd mean in the line
digits=~dcd i
thanks

Does anyone know where i can get one of those 3 digit seven segment displays that are designed to be multiplexed. aka has 12 pins instead of well loads more.

Finally got my boxing timer completed. Now i want to have a seven segemt display counting down the round and rest time. I have seen the schematics for multiplexing the displays, so no problems there....

To try and fault find i have stuck leds on my outputs porta 0 1 2. And wrote a program to light them one at a time with a 1sec delay. Even this doesnt work. One of the leds doesnt light one stays on...

My boxing timer has been working fine on a 16f84a. I have changed to a 16f628a and have had a headache ever since. Managed to sort most of the problems out. However both my green and red leds go on...

Thanks for you rely skimask. You have saved me from a lot of "if endifs" on my next timer.

This has been my first attempt at programing a micrcontroller or programming from that matter.I box so i made a boxing timer which times either a 3min round or a 2min round with a 1min rest. Buzzer...

Hey guys

im trying to make myself a boxing round timer. Im just about there but im have a bit of trouble with getting a buzzer or sounder loud enough. It needs to be loud enough to be heard over...

That link does get what i need to. But for some strange reason the link for the pbp code comes up with nothing. aka its blank. If any one else can get the pbp code to drive 4 seven segments can u plz...