can someone help me with RCTIME

[T.Jackson]

Yeah - I guess few people drive Ferraris as their first car, BS2 has its place. As far as the swap goes, I have never personally owned a BS2. I'd be more than happy to adopt some more 16f84's though. One of my old College teachers was mad into BS2. Come to think of it, he was a bit mad himself actually.

[Acetronics2]

he was a bit mad himself actually.

As one of our greatest comics ( Michel Colucci alias "Coluche" ) said :

" you always judge with your own intelligence "

Quite true.

Alain

[T.Jackson]

As one of our greatest comics ( Michel Colucci alias "Coluche" ) said :

" you always judge with your own intelligence "

Quite true.

Alain

Well, actually, I considered Adrian Down to be a very eccentric border line genius. A bit mad in his own right - many of the other students were a tad scared of him, I wasn't.

[mackrackit]

Yeah - I guess few people drive Ferraris as their first car, BS2 has its place. As far as the swap goes, I have never personally owned a BS2. I'd be more than happy to adopt some more 16f84's though. One of my old College teachers was mad into BS2. Come to think of it, he was a bit mad himself actually.

So, are you are backing out of the swap!!! ?

A man is only as good as his word.

And now that we know you have never used a BS2, I guess your comments are based on ...

[gandora]

So, are you are backing out of the swap!!! ?

A man is only as good as his word.

And now that we know you have never used a BS2, I guess your comments are based on ...

Well despite the fact that I have moved on to bigger and better things. The truth is without the BS2 I can pretty much say for sure I would have just given up before I got this far. I feel that for an initial look on microcontrollers it is a good initial investment. but I have moved on. ^^

[Pic_User]

in case you're using a LDR (or high impedance analog source), i see some advantage of RCTime.. unless, i really don't. A simple transistor+few resistor + PIC adc, would be my solution if i need accuracy.

Level detector? ---> PIC Comparator

OR, PIC16F785 i've ordered a thousand of them yesterday, sOOOO much nice stuff on-board... built-in OP-AMP, 2 phase PWM + asynchronous feedback as a teaser...

NEW TOY, NEW TOY

PIC16F785 What do you like best about them? The op-amps? What type of projects will you use them for? Should we all get a bunch just to keep up?
-Adam-

[mister_e]

Opamp is a REALLLY nice feature, i wasn't aware it was existing in one PIC.. but only voltage comparator & ADCs. Sure you could hack the voltage comparator with some feedback resistor, but my tests never give any good results... well not even close of what you should have with a op-amp.

The Asynchronous PWM feedback (and 2 phase PWM) could be nice for some DC-DC converter, Motor control and for sure, some others.

2 full independant analog comparator.. is a nice feature as well. There's also the REFCON and VRCON register which seems to add some nice stufff...

There's also something i want to test.. the built-in voltage regulator..

Don't worry, i did'nt read the whole thing really carefully

Down side.. no USART, no MSSP... Oups!

For analog stuff and power management, i think it's a really nice PIC.

Time will tell...