Georg Hager wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> In order to drive an IR LED, I'd like to sink currents of about 100mA for
> short periods of time into 16F84 output pins. As this is not possible with
> a single pin, can I just short a couple of pins to get more sink current?
> Or is there some danger afflicted with it (apart from accidentally
> giving different logic levels out to the connected pins ;-)?
>
> Thanx,
> Georg.

        It takes some of you valued pic pins! Use a BS170 mosfet instead,
because it wil disturb your internal pic supply and perhaps create a
reset.
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