Hi Steve
Here is the schematics, I finally got it finished. While I was drawing the schematics it occurred to me that I could get rid of the transistor that outputs to pin 23 by pulling the pin low (instead of high) with the resistor and then just tie the TX's +5V output directly to that pin. I have all the unused pins set as inputs, should I be tying all the unused pins to negative with the 10k resistors or would it make any difference?
While I was trying different wiring schemes to turn on/off the lcd, I ended up frying my Lcd ...... oops! I was switching both the positive and negative for the Lcd off with transistors, I still can't figure out what I did wrong to fry the Lcd. I thought I'd wait to see what you could suggest as to how I have the Lcd wired before I start playing around with a new one and end up frying it too! There must be something wrong with the way I have the Lcd wired because even If I disconnect both the positive and negative for the lcd the milliamp draw is still .38 to .48 milliamps while the micro is in a sleep loop. I also noticed that when I disconnect the negative to the Lcd (pin 1) the Lcd still works good? When I disconnect all 10 wires to the Lcd then the milliamp draw drops to .007 to .122 ma which is much better, so I'm thinking that it must be wired incorrectly but I can't see what I've done wrong. Any help will be very much appreciated.
Thanks jessey
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