LCDOut Woes

[abidr]

try using with the configuration bits as watchdog timer off and brown out detect off, power up timer on and oscillator as XT

[LetTheSmokeOut]

try using with the configuration bits as watchdog timer off and brown out detect off, power up timer on and oscillator as XT

Ok thanks I will try that. I am still working on it. I wound one coil by keeping track of counts in memory and I already have problems, I missed about 30 turns out of 900 lol! My backpack LCD (Seetron) was purchased back in 1999 and I found it works but the 16C54 it uses is bad (sends out garbage on the 3rd character placement and further) so I will have to get back on the LCDout unit using 16F628.

I will try this tomorrow and get back to you. Thanks very much for the input it is very much appreciated.

[g-hoot]

Hey LetTheSmokeOut,
I'm still pretty newbie to this stuff, but I had 2 issues that drove me nuts for a while that you never kbnow, could be one of your problems. One was that, for some reason, no matter how many times I read the PBP manual for the LCDOUT command, my mind never saw the "Flags = 0" part. Some one here pointed that out to me and that fixed one issue. The other issue was that I was getting garbage displayed sometimes and I could not display a number ending in "0" or "P". It turns out that the voltage rating fro the LCD was a minimum of 4.7 V and with the resistor I was using, it was about 4.62 or so. I changed that resistor to get the voltage up in range and that solve my bizarre problems.
Gary

[LetTheSmokeOut]

Thanks guys. It's working now. Looks like the fuse settings as Abidr mentioned was one problem and the flags=0 like G-hoot mentioned was another. Thanks for all your help!

Now I have to figure out interrupts so I can use a Hall effect to send RB0 high on my coil winder so I can increment W0 based on a pulse from the hall and output the word to LCD = )