At 01:54 PM 5/12/2004, Lucian wrote:
>Looking at the schematic, I see now that all the data lines have
>pull-down resistors, as they are shared with the columns of a 4 x 5
>keypad. What is weird is that the LCD sometimes displayed the clock in a
>wrong position although there was no key activity, so I am inclined to
>think that the problem does not come from here.

Any chance that the *pull-up* resistors in the LCD are fighting the
pull-down resistors you mention above and causing problems?  Just idly
musing - I haven't had a chance to look at the schematic and I could be way
off base.

dwayne

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