The summary of things is:

1 - Discone input 5 is not counting ... its LAB chip does see a signal, so it is
something wrong with the trigger input; could be just a cable.

2 - There is a funny '10000' counts thing happening ... look at discone 2, for
example, and tell me how I can see a plateau at 10000
     (that's +/- 1 or 2 counts only!) for low thresholds.  I think that this
10000 number must be an overflow, but not sure.

3 - I see that, roughly 1-2% of the time, the readout cycle for one threshold
setting returns all '0' and that about the same number of times
     the readout returns 2 bytes less than a complete record.  The two effects
are not correlated with each other.  I think that this error rate
     is rather high, but I don't know if it might be just a result of how the
threshold scan is done.

Also, I was thinking that it might be useful to have some clock counter as a
scaler so that one can normalize to time more properly than just guessing
that the data was taken over 1 second.

Anyway, I hope that there is something useful here ... I have not yet played
with turning on the clock but will try today now that I have a clear idea of how
to do it.

Brendan