"John Bell" wrote in message
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Matt,

I just stumbled into this thread and for some reason found in interesting.
I have no personal endoresment, but West Bend appears to have a simple
one.
It appears that you can just press CLEAR and STOP/START to make it work.

But that's not what I want, and unless I'm misunderstanding Matt that's not
what he wants. The problem is that the most common (only?) "command" a
pilot gives to a timer is "start counting up from zero now". For most
stopwatches and timers, presumably all based on the same silicon, that takes
3 button pushes:

Stop (if it's already counting, otherwise it goes to "lap" mode)
Clear
Start

It may be that the West Bend one doesn't have a "lap" mode so requires only
two pushes. What I want is something that emulates the timer on a KR87
ADF -- *one* press and it starts up from zero again.

Julian Scarfe