maybe you need to read something, it's easy and written like a story: http://www.myke.com/pdfs/0071341862_ch23.pdf then to see this code: http://www.geocities.com/vsurducan/electro/PIC/jseriala.txt and after that to connect two f84 usig that serial code without any level adapters. regards, Vasile On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Keith Christopher wrote: > Actually I'm using a 16F84A 10mhz. I am using pic > basic. I had asm code but man picbasic is short and > sweet. > > > > > > --- David Duffy > wrote: > > Keith wrote: > > >I'm seeing (direct rb3) to RX on 232 lvl, I get the > > >message but once the message is sent no other i/o > > to > > >RX pin, put the meter on it voltages were in the mV > > >range. > > > > > >Weird, like the pic after sending the msg is acting > > >like a pull down. > > > > Do you have the RS232 levels going into the PIC > > directly? > > I hope not. Maybe I misunderstood? > > Hang on... why are you using RB3 for serial comms? > > You could just use the on-board UART couldn't you? > > Do you have LV programming enabled & are using RB4? > > Is this assembler code or a basic stamp type of > > thing? > > Regards... > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must > > start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other > > [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads