lcd with Hserout and a max232 connections? help

[flipper_md]

Hello

I wanted to drive my serial LCD with Hserout (for a test), on a pic16f628a, but I can't seem to shoot understandable data on the tx line.

First I realised it wanted an inverter, so I plugged a Max232, and used only the inverter feature(removed capacitor on the -10 +10 v port... multimeter agreed it does the job).

But i'm still getting trash data on the display...

here is the code
:
' Initialize USART
input portb.1
output portb.2
RCSTA = %10010000 ' Enable serial port and continuous receive
TXSTA = %00100000 ' Enable transmit and asynchronous mode
define HSER_BAUD 9600
define HSER_CLROERR 1

hserout [12,"* LED FADER *"]


see jpeg for circuit layout (may be wrong...)