Hi Windell,
I just received the replacement cable and everything seems to work perfectly now.

Thanks for a great kit and fantastic support.

Cheers,

Neil

Quote by: Windell ...For power, you could hack together a cable in about five minutes that just breaks out the 5 V from a regular A-B cable, and use that to run the clock...

Would these header sockets that you guys sell work for me to just make a USB power cable? I want to make a removable usb power cable to run the clock off of but I wasn't sure if that female socket would match up to the header on the clock.

Link to what i'm talking about:
http://evilmadscience.com/partsmenu/182-sockets

I did some more reading- they're both 0.1" pitch

Hi Bryan,
Yes that should work fine, although you'll need to trim down the header positions that you're not using. Also, be *sure* to get the polarity correct; the clock is not protected against reverse polarity. (The chip and LEDs will survive short reversal, not sure about the Chronodot, though.)