Hello CocaColaKid,

CCK>>This is tied to a backpack LCD so I can see what is happening. When the MCLR is tied to the rail it works flawless. Remove the resistor and get mixed results. Sometimes it stops, sometimes I get garbage characters in the serial output. I think I'll stick with using the resistor since it works perfect with it.<<

I am sorry, but I guess I don't have a answer for you on that MCLR one. The only thing I can think of, is the programmer does not have MCLR set to "Input". But if a resister works...sometimes we can say "Thats it".

CCK>>I'm now going to try using the internal resistors with this DS1820 and see what happens. Hopefully it will work properly. I'll post my results.<<

Yes, tell me the results. I will be very interested on how that DS1820 preforms...

Dwayne