Reading Digital caliper with Arduino

[chucketn]

I had posted this project on multiple forums, as many folks do. I had a response on another forum that somehow slipped by, or I was dealing with other, bigger issues, anyway, I missed that post. Somehow, I ran across the update yesterday, while looking for something else. I read the update, which contained some Arduino code and decided to try it,
Long story short version, it worked with my scale. It outputted the scale reading, inch, or mm, to the serial monitor! I played with the code all day yesterday, and succeeded in getting it to display on a 16x2 LCD. Better yet, this code does not need a level shifter, external power for the caliper, just hook the caliper up to the Arduino Uno and add the LCD, and it works.
I am now working on adding a Hall effect tach function, and 2 or 3 more scales.
Also, having seen Rod's post today about members getting help and not giving thanks, I want to thank all those that contributed to this thread. I truly respect the effort, and apologize to anyone I forgot to thank along the way. I never meant to not thank you all. I did have great frustration with this project as nothing worked, and other pressing issues, but that's life, eh? I was actually given the solution, or at least the seed to the solution back in June, but did not find it until yesterday.
I will clean up the code I have working and post it here soon. I have to translate some of the comments from French to English, and take some clear pictures of the working set up.
At the present state, I can display 1 HF scale on one LCD. The op of the solution had his version displaying 1 scale, in inch and mm, and the tach output, on the VGA input of a flat panel computer Monitor!
Again, thanks to ALL that contributed to this thread. I will share my present progress, just let me clean it up a bit.

Chuck