Ioannis, thank you for your reply. I do actually see a pulse and have been using it to measure changes I've been making, although it is always fairly constant at about 1ms pulse to pulse. I'll assume this is because I'm turning off the timer rather than letting it run. Interestingly though, it does stop when seconds = runtime. Its just that seconds aren't 1000ms long :-D Uff just checked, 68uS between pulses, not 1ms as previously stated.
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