At 05:13 PM 19/02/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm must be the dumbest person in the world.. I
>haven't run into a stump this big in along time!
>
>I *STILL* haven't figured out how to read an
>analog value on my 16F84, I've tinkered with the
>R/C method -- No luck, so I went and bought an
>ADC8031 & found some code for the PIC16C71 which
>I converted to PIC16F84 (see below).. I've thrown
>a 1Meg resister in there as follows:
>
>+5VDC--->1M Resistor--->Photocell--->ADC0831 VIN

Robert,
Connect the photocell to ground instead of the ADC input.
Then connect the ADC input to the junction of the resistor & photocell.
Experiment with different resistor values to get the best range.
Regards...

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