Hi Reggie,

Thanks,but the main thing that I don't understand is why this might result
in MOSFETs being damaged,as in the post which I replied to.

I ESPECIALLY don't understand why the positioning of the resistor along the
line between the gate and the PIC would matter when it came to protecting
the FET.

Thanks,

Sean

At 06:26 PM 2/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>It may disturb a read-modify-write instruction in the software.  If the
>code pulls it high then low and is read fast, the pin still stay charged
>due to gate capacitance and the pic may read it as 1 and the FET may
>remain on.  With a resistor in series, this problem is minimized.  The
>use of shadow register can eliminate this problem.
>
>regards,
>Reggie
>
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