PIC-EL III - FLEX LCD help?

k0jdd · Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 13

I would definitely end up making trash out of the board. Shocked

I started with the PIC-EL at first because I wanted code that I knew worked... Embarassed

Great plan, eh?

However, I do have a proto-board of the 'real' project I am trying to work on. The proto-board has an LCD wired into it and I can re-wire that board to use a pin other than B6. Cool

I will let you know...

(PS - I have challenged the Board Designer to make the 16F88 work...)

k0jdd · Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 13

I looked closer at the Pic-El II schematic.
J1-2 on HDR1 allows me to disconnect B6 from everything except the LCD

Did it - no change.

Waiting to hear from other Pic-El users on other message board.

k0jdd · Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 13

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

Right, but the little test program that I posted for you didn't have that
line in it:
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42989&start=10
In your next post, you implied that you ran that program and it failed.
Were you actually editing the program and adding lines to it ?
If you were, that was the wrong way to use the help.

k0jdd · Joined: 06 Jul 2010 Posts: 13

No deliberate were made changes. I ran your program just "as is" and it failed. But at the time I was very frustrated, and it was very late, and it is ENTIRELY possible I screwed it up unintentionally.

Sorry if I somehow appeared to be unappreciative of the help -- I REALLY AM!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

BTW I was able to learn a lot in the process. For example, I have redesigned my underlying project because I have learned that pin RA4 is an open collector and RA5 is an input only on a lot of PICS including the 16F88.

That would have caused problems in my design for sure.

Thanks once again.

John