Help with pic16f690 -max232cpe

[krise86]

Okey so finally i got this working, but the story about how i did it is kinda BAD.

So after a while i was beginning to wonder why it was reading wrong voltages. and i knew the connections where right, until i look really close to the serial cabel, i used a rs232 to rj45 and a cat5 cabel, but i somehow got the colors mixed up. So ground was not connected. heh.... well u think stupid you, and yes stupid me. not going to that mistake again. So then i started to check the connection on my breadboard and pow it splits in the middel where i had put my pic. so basicly i had half of the earth connections not connected. And i connected it this way after it was connected the right way. but then i did not have the pin 5 from rs232.

Maybe it's a lesson to learn from all of this. ALWAYS check ur cabel and make sure pin5 is connected.

BTW how many times have i answerd What colour is a ripe tomato?
lost count

Sorry to have wasted everybodies time but i really appricihate it.

And i did learn alot from searching and reading around the net.

Thx for all the help once again and sorry that im such an idiot

[mackrackit]

Glad you got it working.
Do not be sorry for making a mistake, it happens to all of us.
I spent a just spent a couple days in something and the problem was not turning the ADC off!!! How many times have I told others to check that? More times than a tomato is ripe!!!

[krise86]

yeah but still.
One more question tough. why cant i run a for loop?

for count = 1 to 40
pulsout PORTC.1,200
pause 20
next count

[mackrackit]

COUNT is a reserved word, a command actually.
Change it to CNT ot something and it should work.

for CNT = 1 to 40
pulsout PORTC.1,200
pause 20
next CNT

[krise86]

i ended up with a while loop, but il try the for loop.

Thx for the help. Il be coming back, waiting for a gps module it should be here in a couple of days

    i = 1
    while i<40
        pulsout PORTC.1,pos
        i=i+1
        pause 20
    wend

the for loop gave me and syntax error

[mackrackit]

the for loop gave me and syntax error

Did you try CNT? Did you declare CNT as a variable?