> If you calculate the difference between the current and the next > display you could even not use Reset on the counter and thus use only > one PIC pin. Yeah, but then you're screwed if anything makes the 4017 count during the power up process, before the PIC code is running. Maybe could get away with it by using a power up reset circuit, possibly the same one used for the PIC. --- Peace, William Kitchen The future is ours to create.