Chomsky

When I connect one of the pins of the 470 Ohm resistor before the green LED or the pins of the green LED to ground, I can measure 5 Volts, But it seems that somewhere after the green LED a connection to ground is missing. Maybe I have to connect the PIC board to the computer to get it working?

yes. I measure 5V after 78L05. What do you mean by reversing the LEDs? Do you mean I should stick them in with the wrong polarity?

I've done the PIC burner now for the 2nd time but only the yellow LED goes on when I connect it to the power supply. Is that normal or not?

I found the problem. There was a bad soldering on the board. I corrected it but now I have another problem. Only the yellow LED is on. I measure 12 V at J2 and I have alredy bought new 74HC14 ICs.

No. I'm talking about the burner module which gets 18 Volts.

When I connect 2 9Volt batteries to the PIC burner the 78L05 voltage regulator is heating up. I suspect that there is a short-circuit somewhere? Can someone tell me in what region on the burner the problem could be located?

Thank you for your reply. I will meditate about what you said tonight and make up my mind up about this. The problem is, that I want to know precisely what I am doing (maybe becaus I study computer science and mathematics??). To make an assertion based on experiments is simply not acceptable for me. I need to know it exactly!

You are a very worse teacher! You need to have more patience!! I suppose I have to look for a better teacher! Bye!

When I move a pot from 0 to 25 with a deadband-value of 6, it will look like this: and when I set MIOS_AIN_DeadbandSet(7) it will look like this: Is that correct? What means: "move the pot from 0 to 25"? Where do the values come from?

What happens when I set deadband to 2, 4, 5, 6?

Slowly! First I need to know what the parameter value in the MIOS_AIN_DeadbandSet(unsigned char deadband) function do? Because the type of the parameter value deadband is unsigned char it can range from 0 to 255. What is the effect of this parameter value?

When you search in wikipedia for deadband, you get: I see it like this: Deadband defines the length of a very small rang so that the value of a pot or slider will result in no change if the length of the pot-movement is shorter than the length of the Deadband-range. Am I right?

My suggestion is, that there should be one central place where all the information is gathered. Mostly it takes hours to find the information I need because the information is scattered in many different places. So why don't have a central place, where everybody can find what he/she is searching for?

Perfect! That is exactly what I need! Thank's a lot!

Yes, of course! I would be happy to do this! Really! But before I can do this I need to know how all these MIOS-functions work and what they do. Please tell me where I have to start to learn all about those MIOS-functions. And when I'm finished with it I will write a better documentation!