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 ;-)?

The PIC's are CMOS devices (That's why the power pins are markedVdd & Vss instead of Vcc and Vee),
so theoretically, you could.
I, however, wouldn't. I't easy enough to use a transistor for the job.

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