I am planning on using a PIC to send step, direction, and enable signals to three L297 stepper motor controllers. I need to connect the grounds of the power supplies together, right? I made a PCB for my microcontroller, but unfortunately I neglected to put any pins on the board connected to the ground, so I was wondering if I could just set an I/O pin on the microcontroller to LOW and connect it to the ground of the L297 ICs in order to make the common ground? Thanks, Nathan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist