**** ADMIN WARNING **** **** DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD OR ANY MATERIAL ON IT. **** DO NOT POST PERSONAL ABUSE TO THE LIST IGNORING THIS WARNING COULD LEAD TO A QUIETER THAN EXPECTED EMAIL INBOX THIS CHRISTMAS Offlist comment sent to various participants. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Moreira" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:57 PM Subject: RE: [PIC] Annoying Electric Field? > Solarwind please just go away!!! > > Best Regards > Luis > > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf > Of solarwind > Sent: 17 December 2008 03:35 > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [PIC] Annoying Electric Field? > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Sean Breheny wrote: >> Could it be that your demo board has a resistor from MCLR to Vcc? I've >> had the exact same problem you have when MCLR was left floating. >> >> Sean > > According to the LPC Demo Board Users' Guide schematics, there is no > such resistor. There is a 0.1 uF ceramic capacitor though. Funny thing > is, as I've already stated, the chip works perfectly fine even when in > my breadboard. No capacitor, no resistor, no MCLRE tied to VCC. > > -- > ..::[ solarwind ]::.. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist