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    Hi, Art

    Nice piece of wrapping ... impressing !!!

    Seriously, I do not see the unforgettable ceramic capacitor ( 0.1 - 0.22µ multilayer ) which ever should be placed CLOSEST as possible to the Pic supply pins ... ( lower and upper right )

    Also, you should try to place the Xtal and its caps on the other side of the pic, close to the pic pins ... ( nice 8 Mhz emitter !!! ... lower right )

    there's lots of noise to catch here ...

    a big reservoir cap ( L.S.R. ) is also a must to place close to the multiplexed LED displays:
    they generate lots of noise ...

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    Thanks

    The 0.1 uF caps are there right next to every pic. They are blue.

    Quote Originally Posted by Acetronics View Post
    Hi, Art

    Nice piece of wrapping ... impressing !!!

    Seriously, I do not see the unforgettable ceramic capacitor ( 0.1 - 0.22µ multilayer ) which ever should be placed CLOSEST as possible to the Pic supply pins ... ( lower and upper right )

    Also, you should try to place the Xtal and its caps on the other side of the pic, close to the pic pins ... ( nice 8 Mhz emitter !!! ... lower right )

    there's lots of noise to catch here ...

    a big reservoir cap ( L.S.R. ) is also a must to place close to the multiplexed LED displays:
    they generate lots of noise ...

    Alain

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    Bah! bit of a nightmare project.

    I think the noise stopped when I was using a capacitor is because I was holding
    it with my fingers.

    I have tried a transistor OR gate to ground the input pin of the amplifier.
    The amplifier is connected to an FM radio circuit, and a pic pin that produces sound.
    The OR gate can receive a busy signal from either the pic or radio circuits
    to make it stop shorting the amplifier input to ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Art View Post
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    The 0.1 uF caps are there right next to every pic. They are blue.

    Hi,

    Blue or not ...

    They still are TOO FAR from the pic supply pins ...

    Alain
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    Quote Originally Posted by Acetronics View Post
    Hi,

    Blue or not ...

    They still are TOO FAR from the pic supply pins ...

    Alain
    You think I'd hear less noise from the amp if I moved the 0.1uF caps closer to each chip?

    I had another idea. What if next time I used a copper clad board of the same
    size underneath the proto PCB, so I could drill one layer down to a ground plane at any location?

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