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Decoupling Circuit Hi again, Just wanted to check I have this decoupling circuit down correctly Is it as simple as that?

So here's the stage I'm at, it's a bit of a mess at the moment visually but it's not finished yet. Do you know if it is possible to utilise the hidden power pins in picaxe VSM? Edit: I just realised I've connected C5 up to the LCD, that should actually go straight to ground

Is this what you mean about putting the capacitor across? Also I did a calculation based on wattage to determine the capacitor size and came out with 550uF, I think my calculation was wrong because this seems a little high to me, what do you think? If I add more ouput devices to the pic, say...

Sorry about the misunderstanding, the circuit I posted was the circuit I was talking about when I posted it. In the time between that and my next post I had added a mosfet to it, then I had to go out so I didn't have time to print it and post it on here and now I am back I shall upload the new...

Schematic - low 0 main: If pin0 = 1 then high 0 ;Turn light on pause 2000 low 0 ;Turn light off endif goto main I understand derating to be running the component with less power than the max to make it last longer? I've been using the VSM simulator, when I place an ammeter across at...

Hi, I'm sure this is an easy one. I have an IR LED with a forward voltage of 1.7v, and forward current of 100mA. My picaxe circuit uses a 28x1 chip. Im using a 9V supply which is regulated, via a 7805 chip, to 5v. In order to get the most brightness from the LED should I connect it straight...

It seems to run fine in the Picaxe program editor simulator, I have made a new version that currently doesn't make use of the scratch pad, still getting the same error in the VSM though. Will I be ok to try this out on real hardware or should I get the simultion (VSM) working first? Thanks

Hello my first post here, I am using PICAXE VSM to simulate my circuit and the PICAXE programming editor to write my code. The program im writing is for a 28x1 chip. Last night I got an error "Memory Location Already Used" in the VSM, the programming editor syntax checker says Im using 1377...