SH-E 879 clock

This is a simple seeming setup. the SH-E 879 has an informative silkscreen and all the parts arrived, but I just can't seem to get one that works. The first one the display was quite confused, I tried to troubleshoot, but I think it was bad firmware on the chip. the second one, most of the display works one of the 8 segments for the hours never came on. neither did the leds I may troubleshoot, but likely I may cut my losses and move on. it's perfectly happy with 5v is quite hackable would be simple to work into a project, but I think you would spend more time fixing it than it's worth. As dad says, it's easy to make a bad pie.