Quote Originally Posted by jellis00 View Post
I appreciate your help. I am going to investigate the suggestion to use an "H-Bridge", but I know nothing about them. Can you point me to any good tutorials on H-Bridges for controlling solenoids that require more current than a PIC will provide?
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotic...t-circuit.html
http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas/hexfet/np-s.htm
http://www.4qdtec.com/h.html
The simplest 4 transistor h bridge:
http://library.solarbotics.net/circu...arHbridge.html