Hi Wouter,

How do you manage to short the +5V line without drawing huge amounts of
current and overloading the 7805?

Sean

At 05:25 PM 1/19/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > if so, what is the difference between doing this and
> > recycling the power? or
> > is a reset exactly the same as powering off then on?
>
>Power cycling is the more thorough reset. Some components (LCDs for
>instance) don't even have a real (external) reset pin. I almost always
>use a 7805 regulator and, I often use a switch that shorts the 5 Volt as
>reset.
>
>For programming some newer PICs require MCLR rise to Vpp *before* +5 is
>applied.
>
>Wouter van Ooijen
>
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