better yet. if all the boards are using the same power supply
could you just tie the master tx to all the slave rx pins?
unless you need the rs232 levels for another reason.

michael


At 08:19 PM 5/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I want to send an RS232 signal ( one way only ) to several PICS. All
>the PICS (Probably 16c73's) will be in the same box. Is there any reason
>why I can't use one MAX232 or similar device and distribute the output
>to 3 or 4 PICs Rx pins. I think it should be ok but just checking to
>make sure there are no gotcha's. Thanks.
>                                            Jim
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