Iceman, Jeff, the pause won t be needed my opinion no matter how we do this. It should be usefull only in the very last second of the countdown, and can cause more trouble than accounted for in case the sw pauses the counter then crashes :P
The timer function is all hardware, i just need a way to set it differently while already running. That way, in case the app fails, the hardware will work properly.
Ice, my dsatx is connected at all times, and no problems, to have it affected by the rubbish your computer speaks it would need to send an E then an y to the port and then match a proper command
I will think about adding some commands to run at startup
Alex