This actually solved my problem...  I had taken a 100 Ohm resistor by
mistake.
Driving my regular power-transistor through a 100 Ohm caused too high load
on PIC and I measured only 3 volts.
With a FET or with a 1k resistor, I measure full Vss.

Thanks.

    KreAture

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Webb" <swebb@NETLAB.UKY.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC Hardware failures. Was: PWM on 16F62x problem?


> > Pardon my comandeering of your thread, but since you mention hardware
> > failures, I had a PIC 16F872 fail on me recently in an odd way ... RB0
froze
> > at logic "1".  I checked the circuit carefully, but did not find any
shorts
> > or other problems.  RB0 thru 4 drove the base of some 2N3906 transistors
via
>
> The only way I locked a pic like that was when I was driving a transistor
> through a "zero ohm" resistor...:)  And even that took a while.
>
> I know you already checked the circuit, but are you sure it's a 1k
> resistor?
>
> Let us know if you figure it out..
>
> -Steve
>
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