I swapped components and now everything works as expected.

Thanks again,
Allen

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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of
> Allen Mulvey
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 10:20 PM
> To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
> Subject: [PIC] Port Behavior
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> I recently moved a project to a PIC18F46K22 and am getting some unexpecte=
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> results when using various pins as outputs. The data sheet says:
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> - High-Current Sink/Source 25 mA/25 mA
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> I tried testing various PORTA and PORTD pins by driving a small active
> buzzer which draws about 7 mA. If the device is connected from the pin to
> VCC, it screams when the pin goes low. If I connect the device from the
pin
> to ground (VSS) nothing happens but an LED indicates the port goes high.
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> course the device polarity is adjusted for each situation.
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> I tried PORTD because ports A and C have a lot of other things going on
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> I wanted to make sure I just hadn't forgotten to turn off some peripheral=
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> PORTD is about as generic as a PIC port can be.
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> The ports seem to be operating as open collector devices like some other
> PICs I have used. I do not see anything in the documentation to suggest
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> kind of operation.
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> I can work with the ports as source only but this seems contrary to the
data
> sheet which explicitly says Sink/Source.
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> What am I missing here?
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> Allen
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