Question about 18F4450

[manwolf]

I have already 'wired' alot of stuff out to a breadboard. But I kind of like the little guy and don't want to start doing major surgery just yet.
Maybe next month

Now the EasyPic5 is a horse of a different color, I would do major surgery on it in a heartbeat.
I think it will end up in the parts bin before its over.

I have found the LAB board much easier to work with than the EasyPic. I think the switches adds more confusion to everything. My little pea brain can handle only having one chip in a socket at time.

I have a zif socket for the EasyPic and a few other ideas to make it more userfriedly for a future project.

Any suggestions for a power supply, I am currently using a 12v laptop powersupply and one of those cheap wall adapters from Radio Shack. The laptop supply is rated at 3 amps and appears to be clean enough for my projects so far.

[Darrel Taylor]

> and don't want to start doing major surgery just yet.

Probably a wise precaution.

> Any suggestions for a power supply

Could be a large number of answers to that question. And in the past I've used many different types. But these days, it's almost exclusively the little 5v "Switching" power supplies left over from dead routers, USB hubs etc that seem to only last about 3-5 years. The equipment dies, but the power supplies last forever.

Not all of them are switching, and not all are 5V. But the ones that are, work perfect for everything I've needed.

They have excelent isolation, fairly good regulation (4.8-5.2V), and usually a fairly high current output compared to a Transformer type "Wall Wart" that's twice the size.

Only rule is ... Measure the voltage and polarity BEFORE connecting to anything.