comwarrior
- 18th September 2009, 05:28
ok, i had my pic sat on my bench turned on and i went to make a brew and have a fag...
I came back to find my LCD display off...
i grabbed my power module to hold it down while i pulled the power jumper to turn of the power and realised my 5 volt regulator was increadably hot... so i pulled the jumper...
Somehow while i was making a brew, the power wire from one side of the PIC to the other had come loose and was shorting...
So, i put the wire back in and reconnected the power module... The LCD display initialised but did not display my "initialising" and "initialised" messages...
I double checked everything, stuck it back in the programmer and re-programmed it, verifies ok... Still nothing...
I stuck my multimeter around known output pins thinking perhaps my LCD had died... the data lines to the LCD were solid high...
I tested the xtal lines thinking i had an xtal problem again... OSC1 read zero volts and OSC2 read 5 volts...
I tested in my little Knight rider board and it reads the same...
Have i killed it?
I came back to find my LCD display off...
i grabbed my power module to hold it down while i pulled the power jumper to turn of the power and realised my 5 volt regulator was increadably hot... so i pulled the jumper...
Somehow while i was making a brew, the power wire from one side of the PIC to the other had come loose and was shorting...
So, i put the wire back in and reconnected the power module... The LCD display initialised but did not display my "initialising" and "initialised" messages...
I double checked everything, stuck it back in the programmer and re-programmed it, verifies ok... Still nothing...
I stuck my multimeter around known output pins thinking perhaps my LCD had died... the data lines to the LCD were solid high...
I tested the xtal lines thinking i had an xtal problem again... OSC1 read zero volts and OSC2 read 5 volts...
I tested in my little Knight rider board and it reads the same...
Have i killed it?